Big probs using LR to move folders (OS X)!

[Harrzack]

This is under OS X 1'.4.11, PowerPC G5, LR 4 (also happened with 1.31). BTW - LR4 under OS X has been working fine, the following issue aside.
I was previously on 1.31

I've added a 6''G internal drive to the machine, and needed to move a folder which contained 1' sub-folders (about 135Gb) from the external Firewire drive to the new drive.

I created a new folder on the internal drive, then added a single image via LR so it would know about the new location. Then, in LR, I simply drug the folder on the Firewire drive to the new folder on the internal drive. LR began chugging away, apparently moving the files.

After some time, the task completed. However the catalog is now hosed! Of the 1' sub-folders, 3 seem to be intact, the other 7 are just empty!
AND - they are GONE from the Firewire drive, so it appears LR managed to THINK the files were moved, then deleted them from the source location! ARRGH! This could have been a major loss of original data had I not backed up the folder. So much for non-destructive handling of files!

Worse - it still thinks there is folder on the Firewire drive and does mark it red. When I try and tell it where the new location is, LR chugs away for a bit and mostly ignores the information, and nothing changes.

I think I've seen mention of where the XML for the catalog structure is kept. Does anybody know the path to this on OS X? Perhaps I could just hand edit the XML and fix it that way.

This is day 2 of an ongoing nightmare! :-(

=Alan R.

 

[rcannonp]

Adobe pulling the 1.4 update was a big enough no confidence vote for me, so I went back to 1.3. There may have been more wrong with 1.4 than we thought. I would get 1.4 off my machine as soon as possible, and reinstall 1.3 to see how it reads things. I hope that you've backed up your catalogs.

 

[Harrzack]

Further info on OS X folder move ops

It appears that when LR MOVES files from an External disk to an Internal, it DELETES the folder on the External drive even though all images may have not moved correctly or there were errors. An OS "Move" is a copy-delete operation, and it looks like LR is doing the move, not checking as to how successful the move was, and simply deleting the source directories.

I'm moving the 1' sub-directories one at a time, and in each there are a number of TIF or PSD files that for some reason don't get moved. They may have been edited pre-LR - don't recall. At the end of the folder move, it still shows the source folder in red, with the 'bad'/empty images there. They are actually gone, and were not part of the move. I suspect they didn't move for some kind of error, and LR didn't look to see that there was still files in the source folder, and went ahead and deleted it. So far, it is not a serious prob, as the originals NEF's are all intact. But it DOES NOT BODE WELL!

=Alan R.