Strange directory phenomenon?

[rlebleu]

New Macbook Pro, running Lion 10.7.3

I download my images into a file structure in my Pictures directory in numeric chronological folders eg /2012/04/13/image filenames....

Yesterday, I tried to open a folder for Feb 4, i.e. /2012/02/04 and ASP showed the folder was empty! Finder shows it to have 68 DNG files that I am pretty sure used to be there. I also use Lightroom 4.1, so I thought perhaps LR4 had somehow contaminated the image files, and ASP would no longer open them... I know about ASP only supporting native DNG files from my Pentax K5. The folder looks fine in Lightroom...

Had the same images in my Win 7 desktop, so packaged the images files into a folder called 04pc, and copied it to my Mac. Imported the folder into ASP. Images appeared fine. So I thought perhaps my going back and forth between ASP and Lightroom might have corrupted the original images. No problem. Trashed the 04 folder, and renamed the folder from my desktop from 04pc to 04.

They disappeared again! Renamed the folder back to 04pc, and the images came back?!

I have somehow done something that prevents ASP from reading images from a folder called 04!

I tried creating a new catalog, and reimporting images into it. Same result! If the folder was named 04, ASP showed it to be empty. If I renamed the folder to 04p, the images came back.

Then I created a folder called 04 in April and copied an image to it... ie folder is 2012/04/04/imagename.dng ASP has no trouble reading it.

Any ideas anyone? I am new to OSX so it might well be finger trouble... But for now, the folder in February 2012 has to be named anything other than 04!

Dick

[maggus]

Hi,
I remember I had a similar issue in the past.
-- working in Filesystem
-- had some folder with some images, did some adjustments there
-- deleted/renamed the RAWs outside of ASP, images disapeared in ASP, as expected
-- copied image with back into this folder ... and ASP refused to see it

Solved by deleting the cache structure for this folder AND had to delete the DB of ASP.
So I guess there was something messed up in the DB.

cheers
Markus

[rlebleu]

Hi Markus!

Hi,
Solved by deleting the cache structure for this folder AND had to delete the DB of ASP.
So I guess there was something messed up in the DB.

Thank you so much!!! Deleting the cache did solve the problem!!! Of course I had to find the cache first

I had deleted the DB folder thinking I had solved it. Uninstalled, deleted the DB folder. Made no difference. Every new installation continued to hide the contents of the folder... I am new to the Macbook, and I don't know where it stores stuff... Now I do...

I don't know what I did to make this happen, but at least I know how to recover!!!

Thank you so much for the clue!

Dick

[grubernd]

location of the cache - no matter what OS - can be found in

File >> Preferences >> General

[rlebleu]

location of the cache - no matter what OS - can be found in

File >> Preferences >> General

Thank you... That observation in fact led me to find the cache location. Getting access to that folder was another matter... (Holding Option Key down when using Finder)

I am on a Macbook Pro, and it appears that MAC applications seem to locate their caches in a single location in the Library folder... Sure is a different world than a Winodws environment...

Dick