Rick, I would fear that what Graydon said is the case... I've guessed it while reading your first message, but many other possibilities existed. But when you said you updated to LR-2.4 and described that things continue disappearing, I would say you might be having some problems with the HDD.
Check the system logs for possible HDD-related errors: /var/log/system.log Igor Tue Aug 11 10:30:24 CDT 2009 Graydon wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:22:09AM -0700, Rick Womer scripsit: > Another strange thing: I clicked on the February folder in the > Folders window, and the thumbnails came up. Clicked on the ? mark on > one of the photos, located it on the hard disk, and LR whirred along > updating the links to nearby photos. Then the February folder and all > its photos vanished from the Folders window, though they still exist > in the Finder. This sounds disturbingly like the bits of the hard drive with the inode tables on them are dying out from under you. (Lightroom and the Finder have a different cache, so aren't going to be coherent with each other in terms of what they think is on the disk.) No idea how you tell on a Mac if you have real hard drive issues or not, but I'd suggest you make backups and check. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
