Missing file program for OS X?

Windows XP Pro has a feature where you run this internal program and it will tell you if there are any operating system files missing. Does OS X have anything like that. Is there anyway to verify if a operating system file was inadvertently deleted?

You could always run 'Verify' from Disk Utility. If it reports errors you'll have to boot from the install disk to repair.

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Adadmin error when run check for missing files

Hi All,
When i run adamin for checking missing flie option it return the error
Unable to verify files for iSupplier Portal.
AD Administration error:
The following file is missing:
/m01/TEST/apps/apps_st/appl/pos/12.0.0/admin/driver/posfile.drv
My EBS version is :R12.1.3
when i checked files existed in $POS_TOP there are only three subdirectories available i.e. log mesg out
when i checked in one of the older server in mean R12.1.1 all files existed in POS_TOP i.e. admin help html java log mds media mesg out patch sql xml
Can i copy all the files from old server(12.1.1) to produciton(R12.1.3)
Due to this error JAR files cannot be generated
Thanks
Alig

Was this 12.1.3 instance upgraded from the same copy of 12.1.1 instance you have?
Can i copy all the files from old server(12.1.1) to produciton(R12.1.3) They are different releases. However, you could try copying the files and see if this helps. Are you using this product?
Due to this error JAR files cannot be generatedWhat is the error? Copy the missing files/directories for now and check then.
Thanks,
Hussein

Files Already Exist when Reconnecting Presumably Missing Files

I am struggling to clean-up several hundred files in my PSE organizer database.
Whenever I run the reconnect all command (or any other command that requires reconnecting first), PSE locates a large group of presumably missing files. PSE's "Reconnect Missing Files" dialogue shows me the former location of the files. I browse to that location and find the files still there. I then select the file and press reconnect. Unfortunately, I then get an error that says "The file already exists in the catalog." This clears the missing file problem for the moment. However, when I run another missing file check, it will again find these same files. I have attempted to reconnect them several times but PSE continues to tell me that they need to be reconnected but still knows where the files are.
I have already run a database repair (no errors were found).
I also ran a database optimization without issue.
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Win7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
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PSE 12....but also had the same problem on PSE 11. I upgraded hoping that the problem would be solved. It wasn't.
Thanks for any assistance in clearing this problem for me.
-Bruce

I solved my own problem...although I do not know what caused it nor why Adobe's program didn't fix it for me.
The "missing" entries that were being highlighted were all duplicate entries. Adobe won't allow for a duplicate entry to the same physical file. I deleted all the offending entries and this cleared my problem. I hope this solution helps others.
-Bruce

IWeb keeps reporting missing files

Every time my wife starts working on her website with iWeb in her (non-admin) account, the program reports missing files. Mostly it's "cache-xx" files, but once I saw the png file that represents the white "Made with Mac" logo, while the logo was on all her site pages?! I work with iWeb in my (admin) account too, but never have seen this error.
She's been getting this from the beginning, since a couple of weeks. Once, I deleted her whole site (was only 6 pages) and did it over from scratch. Went well for a couple of days, then the error came back again. It looks like the entire site works good, no missing photo's or such, but she get's a heart attach each time the error pops up, since she lost an entire day's work earlier, when, after a days work, iWeb presented her with her old website again when she re-opened the program...
The website is not complex: 6 screens in standard setup. No movies, blogs or podcasts, only one out of the ordinary thing is a page with 97 photo's on it.

I get the "Missing File" errors for nearly every picture on my sites, but not all of them. I don't know what the difference is between the ones that get the error and that don't. The only thing that I can think of is that maybe some of the files were "imported" from the desktop or something (by drag/drop), but the others were selected from the iphoto via the "media" window. My only option right now seems to be to recreate the entire site! This is NOT a good option for me, and makes me very sad that I upgraded to iWeb08... seems like it wasn't ready for primetime to me!

Missing File Messages / iWeb adding -1 to files names

I am trying to create a website using iWeb '09 but I am have an issue with missing file messages. I created the site without an issue. Opened it up the following day and immediately received missing file messages for almost all pages on the site. iWeb appends a -1 to valid file names ex: IMG_12345 -> iWeb message = missing file IMG_12345-1. I am also receiving the missing file messages with the template images which are not being used on the website (dragged and dropped my images over template images).
I tried to delete the pages then recreate them but that didn't work either. I also deleted the com.apple.iWeb.plist file (emptied trash) then restarted, held shift while rebooting, changed template to a different template then changed it back...nothing is working.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Another thing I noticed; I have two "domain.sites2" files, one in Users >> Folder >> Application Support >> iWeb and the other is in a personal directory. They are both modified today two hours apart. I just opened and closed iWeb and the file in the application support directory shows a modification not the one in the personal directory.
The first five or so times I opened iWeb I had to acknowledge the iWeb welcome screen before it wouldn't come back. It seems that my iWeb may be corrupted and have to be reinstalled?

Missing Files and Locating Bug

Hi,
In LR2, if I relocated a folder of files/photos, for example move them from a primary hard drive (on my macbook) to an external hard drive, the catalogue would indicate missing files with a '?' icon in the top right hand corner of the file.
To re-locate these files was simple, right click on the missing file and for OSX simply click 'show in finder' and find the missing file in it's new location.
Then all missing files from that particular folder would all be systematically found.
In LR3 the above process has no effect. If I try to relocate a missing file nothing happens.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Tomas

A little spookie, just before I noticed your post I tried the 'Find Missing Folder' option in the folder tab in the library module and that worked fine.
Clicking the '?' icon or right clicking and selecting 'Show in Finder' still has no effect though. In LR2 this never failed.
Thanks very much for such a fast response

Missing File while creating a HDD Recovery CD

Hi,
At first my English is not the best.
And now my problem:
When I try to create a new HDD Recovery CD an error occurs telling me there is a File missing
This is the Error message:
The following file could not be opened,
F:\08011XSP5.swm
(Errorcode 020123-F1-00000000)
I just translated the error message so maybe there are some mistakes in it.
I got a Satellite A300-1QD. Got it on 20th of March.
I dont know what to do. Can someone help me?

>I dont know what to do. Can someone help me?
In my opinion you should do follow:
Make screenshots of all errors as evidence. Try to create recovery media using DVD-R media and use high quality media as TDK or Verbatim.
If the same happen again try to contact nearest authorized service provider and explain the situation. I hope you will get new original Toshiba recovery media.
The missing file is for me serious problem and if you cannot create recovery media I am afraid you cannot install Vista again using F6 option and HDD recovery procedure. If this is true you can stay without operating system. Please don't make any experiments with F6.
Contact ASP and try to get recovery media for free. Use screenshots as evidence.
By the way: I have Satellite A300 but I was lucky and recovery creation worked properly.

I cant get the program to stop searching for a missing file

i cant get the program to stop searching for a missing file

You can uncheck the option that says automatically search for missing files in the prefernces window of Organizer.

Can't retrieve project from early Photoshop Elements 5.0 as program is searching for Missing Files. These were transferred from that computer and then lost HELP

When I bought my new laptop I transferred "My Pictures" onto a memory stick then onto the new laptop which are now lost. I have a very important family holiday/wedding still on my old computer in Photoshop Elements 5.0. The photos are there but when I open them I get a window where PE is "searching for missing file". Is there any way I can save these photos please?

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Catalogs, Missing Files, and Question Marks for Beginners

Hello, fellow non-power-users. I just wanted to post something here that I've learned with my travails and travels using LightRoom 3. In the past, Adobe has paid me to write for them, and I'm a professional writer. So why am I doing this for free? Because I wish to heck I'd understood this stuff before I dove into LR. Somehow, even with reading a book on the program, I didn't really get it.
1) Most of the people who are kind enough to post and help on Adobe support and other forums on the Interwebs are power users of Lightroom. The great thing is, they often know what they're talking about. The bad thing is, many of them don't understand what it's like to be a non-power-user who really has no intention of becoming a power user. Be very, very careful before you try to take their advice about any large issue that might have serious consequences for your photos.
2) LR has about forty million ways to do things, so it can be overwhelming, and you may also receive lots of contradictory information about how to accomplish stuff. If you're like me---not a professional photographer, more a refugee from the annoying land of iPhoto who just needs a *little* more power and customization---you may have trouble streamlining, figuring out the few things you actually need the program to do for you. Try some introductory videos and tutorials, even books, but don't expect them to solve your real problems with the program.
3) Before you begin, grasp a few concepts:
     a. When you're working in LR, you're working with a "catalog." It shows you images of your photos, but these aren't really your photos. Your actual photos are *files* that live on your computer somewhere. Think of it as a slideshow projected on a wall: you can see the photos on the wall, but they aren't the "real photo." If you walked up to the wall and painted on the projection of a slide, the "real photo" file would not be changed. What LR does is keep track of those wall paintings for you, so if you wanted to print up a version of that slide and include your brush strokes, LR could do that for you. The catalog is a type of database.
     b. So where are those real photos, those files? Probably all over your computer in different places. You may want to consolidate them all in one place before you start using Lightroom. Here's why: once Lightroom thinks your "real photo" is in a certain place, it doesn't want you to move the "real photo" file. Say you have a photo called that someone sent in email. You put it on your desktop. Now you are tempted to drag-n-drop it onto Lightroom. DO NOT DO IT. Because someday, you might want that photo to not clutter up your desktop. You'll drag it to another folder on your hard drive, and BOOM, now Lightroom cannot find the photo.
You can't work on the photo from within Lightroom. You can't print it. Lightroom will show a question mark ? on its wall-projector slide of your photo file. Often when someone moves files on their computer, it's not a single file on a desktop. It's a bunch of things they are trying to organize. Adobe knows this, which is why they have a "find missing photos" command. They know you are likely to screw this up. The command will show you those missing files. You have to select them individually by hand and search your computer for them to relink. You can spend a lot of time relinking photos. It sucks. Really sucks.
     c. If you do need to move stuff, Lightroom does let you do it, but only from within the program. So, open up LR, and look in the left-hand column for an item called "Folders." (You will be in Library mode to make this happen.) You can move your "real photo" files around from within this area. It is a clunky process and an enormous pain in the butt.
     d. Rant time: For some reason, one of the most sophisticated and long-lived software companies in history, the developers that completely changed the worlds of art, design, photography, and publishing--you got it, Adobe--have not been able to solve this problem and chase down your real photo files if you moved them from within the Finder, the way you normally move files on a computer. Go figure. (Irrelevant note: I've been using their products since Pagemaker 1.0 and it's sort of astonishing that they've never solved this problem, in LR or InDesign or elsewhere. It's like publishing a magazine using Quark in 1995, rushing to find the messed-up links before you hand-carry your ZIP drive over to the printer. Hee hee.)
4) Decide whether you want to divide your photos into a few separate catalogs, or whether you want one enormous catalog ("master catalog"). Then try not to change your mind.
Here is my story:
Summary: I started with multiple catalogs and regret merging them into one.
I hired a photographer/supposedly-LR guy to set up my LR and he suggested multiple catalogs, each easily saveable (catalog AND its photos) to a single external hard drive. I only made two: one for family photos, one for a big art project. Whenever I asked questions online about using LR, everyone told me to combine all photos into one big master catalog. Eventually I did, and I regret it. As a non-power-user, I screwed up something in the merging process, and ended up with a lot of question-mark, missing-photo problems, and a bunch of duplicate photos to boot. What a waste of time.
If you're not a pro, you probably don't need a gigantic single database to deal with. If you're someone who uses Dropbox or another non-Adobe cloud method to store and work with your photos, and you don't have unlimited storage, you may find it way more convenient to have a few different catalogs.
Power users probably don't screw up the process of merging all their catalogs into one. Power users have, from what I've read online, many complicated ways of making a big master catalog work the way they want, say for working on small numbers of files while traveling with a laptop, and then getting that work into the giant master catalog when they get back home to their studios.
But I am not a power user, and if you're reading this, you probably aren't a power user either. So perhaps my experience will be useful to you.
5) Paying for plug-ins to help with all this nonsense.
You can buy plug-ins that help you do things this application should already do by itself. For example, "Duplicate Finder" goes through and finds all the photos that you've accidentally imported more than once into your catalog. Then you can painstakingly go through, figure out which copy to keep, and delete them. Often, these "duplicate" photos are not duplicates of your "real photo" file. But at some point you moved your "real photo" file while you were tidying up your computer files, and later accidentally re-imported that photo into your LR catalog. Since LR doesn't follow your files around when you move them from within your computer/Finder, LR thinks it's a whole brand-new file. It's like your projector is projecting three images on the wall at the same time. You have to figure out which one to keep, which one will save your wall-painting changes, etc. And it is a huge pain in the butt.
Note that you can click a box when importing photos, a box that says "Do not import suspected duplicates." This can be really helpful for avoiding duplicates in the first place. It is not, however, infallible.
OK, I hope this helps someone somewhere. I'm going to go back to the horribly time-consuming task of relinking files and trying to make my brain work the way LR's brain works.

Glad to help!
Another good thing to do from time to time is to boot from your install CD, then choose "Disk Utility", then do a check (and repair, if necessary) of your boot disk.
You can't verify or fix a disk you've started from, thus the need to boot from a CD. You can boot from a second hard disk to do this test if it has MacOS on it.

Organizer. not able to turn off "automatic search for missing files"

Organizer starts searching for missing files. files that i have deleted, and the programme just keep on forever searching for those already deleted files. When i try to turn off that function, the organizer just stops. Running the program on Imac 2010.

That's the thing with the Elements Organizer - once you start managing your media in it you must also use it for all subsequent maintenance so that it retains integrity.
To try and resolve the Find> all Missing Files crash problem go to File> Manage Catalogs and Repair your current catalog. Follow that with an Optimize. See if you can now find them without the crash.
If Find> All Missing Files is still causing a crash, you could try File> Reconnect> All Missing Files. As that searches your entire hard disk for one image at a time, and will take a very long time if you did a lot of deletions with your EasyDuplicateFinder program, wait for it to finish examining your catalog then cancel the attempt to find each image. Now in your organizer each of the missing files thumbnails will have a question mark at top left - you can then delete these from the catalog. After you've done quite a few retry Find> All Missing Files again to see if it will run without crashing.
Cheers,
Neale
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Searching for missing files, using PSE6

After I have transfered a batch of photos using the -file -get photos -From files and folders, the thumbnails appear in " Organizer" but when I want to look at the photos in full screen they come up unclear and a dialogue box comes up ," searching for missing files" I then click on "browse" and the folder from which i have transfersd the photos, in "My Pictures" is not shown in the list. I have done this with an other folder of photos and it is also not shown in the list, as if they have dissapeared. The folders are still in " My Pictures"
I am totally frustrated with trying to get past first base with this program I have spent many hours trying to find a solution

It sounds like you may be encountered one of the drive-handling bugs in PSE. To diagnose that, download and run the free utility "psedbtool":
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Downloading,_Installing,_andhttp://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/
Copy and paste the output in a reply here.

Searching for missing files and damaged photo icon

I am trying to view photos that I have viewed in this program numerous times before but now when I click on the photos, I get a message that says "searching for missing files". Sometimes, the photo appears with a red icon below it that resembles a wripped photo. Does this mean my photo has been damaged by the program?

I too have been told to find them on my hard drive but still nothing comes up, I can find the picture name and then do a search, but nothing. I've tried several times and it just keeps saying seach for missing files not found. I can see my collection of pictures, but there blury and then when I try to click on them, it says searching for missing file and it gives me the file name, and then I've tried to go under my search and put that file name in and nothing comes up, I also got NO help from adobe and they want us to buy more products??? They could have warned us somehow on what happens if you move them or try and put them on disc, and that's what happen, I put some on disk or at least thought I did and then realized I didn't want to do that, so I hit the UNDUE and I guess it was so late or something, cuz I can see the pictues, just can't open them. I'm wandering if I need to have a expert see if he can get them off of Adobe, I really want the pictues I have graduation pictures on there and need them very much. Would love to have help from anybody. Please.
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K

Search for missing file - can't remove it

I keep getting "Searcing for missing file" I cancel it and shut the system down and it comes back every time. When I go into the pictures there is a little red broken box at the bottom of them. How do I stop this?

When you 'add' your pictures to Starter Edition, the program notes where the file is, and creates a reference thumbnail representation of the picture for you, so that you can work with a large collection of files in different places on your hard drive. If you move or delete any of your pictures, that will result in outdated references to your files in Starter Edition. That is what is meant by 'missing file'; the file has been moved, deleted, or renamed.
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The other way to fix it is to move the file back to wherever the program 'thinks' the original file is.
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I keep getting a pop up in my adobe photoshop element 10"searching for missing file-to locate this y

i need to learn how to find missing files in adobe photoshop elements 10.i unistalled the program and reinstalled it but it made no difference.i keep getting a persistant pop up telling me to search for the missing file.IN PLAIN ENGLISH how do i reconnect the missing files?thanks

hi :i tried the pref-files box and pressed ok twice and nothing happened
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