Thanks for the replies. I finally just deleted the offending catalog, and copied it again from my external hard drive. The copy is working fine.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 8/11/09, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: My Lightroom has Alzheimer's > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 3:38 PM > > 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. > -- 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.
