Finding a missing file after failed copy attempt

Tried to copy a folder in my external Hard Disc but it was cancelled when there was a pop up window saying there is a folder with the same name in the the drive I was copying the files into. Now the folder I tried to copy is MIA
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I transferred my music to a larger hard drive and when I went to sync to iTunes there half my library had a '!' next to the songs. After I located one song the question 'would you like itunes to find other missing files' came up. What does this mean?

I recently transferred my music from one external hard drive to another and when I went to sync it to iTunes half my music had a '!' symbol on the left side, which meant that the songs weren't located. When I went to locate one of the songs it asked me if I wanted iTunes to find other missing files, which I said yes. What happens next and what is iTunes doing to find the missing files?

iTunes is a database. When you import songs to the database, it records the location of that song, so that when you play, or sync the song iTunes knows where to look for it.
When you moved your music to a different location, iTunes can't find it because you didn't tell iTunes that you moved the music.
You'll have to re-add those songs that you moved to your itunes library. Your best bet is going to be to delete all the songs in your library and then go to File > Add folder to library > and then find your music folder on the new external hard drive.
Also, the external drive HAS to be connected in order for iTunes to find it.

Need help: Itunes cannot locate multiple missing files after renaming

All of music had strange names after transfering them to a new computer. I decided to use a program to rename all of them using a renaming program that renamed all of my music files based on their ID3 tags (Title, artist, etc).
Well now I went to Itunes and it cant find the any of the files (figured that), so I find one and Itunes asks if it should find more missing files, and hit yes, but it doesn't find any of the other newly renamed files. Is there anything I can do short of doing this for each individual file? Is there a way I can change Itune search parameters for finding missing files? Thanks

This is my standard post on the missing files thing...
This happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
I sort of assumed the third party tool wouldn't have put things in an iTunes standard form which is why I offered my scrupt at the outset. If you can explain how they are organised I might be able to tweak up the script to work for your layout too.
tt2

How would I find a missing file

how would I find a missing file for microsoft office 2010 that was installed on the pc when I bought it. the file is : C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OEMOffice14\0Starter\en-US\WelcomeDocument.dotx
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My Sony Xperia Z won't start /turn on after failed update attempt

Try this connect your phone to the wall charger > press andhold power & volume up > let it charge for 1 or 2 hours > after 2 hours > repair your phone with SUS Update Service (SUS) http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/tools/update-service/ http://www-support-downloads.sonymobile.com/Software%20Downloads/Update_Service_Setup-2.11.12.5.exe PC Companion (PCC) Bridge (for Mac) Alternatives on How to backup Xperias http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36355

A similar problem to the other posters, my Sony Xperia Z won't start after a failed update attempt. Following the support suggestions on the Sony website (http://www.sonymobile.com/sg/support/faq/w8-walkman-phone/update-software/software-update-failed-ps101/) failed. Solutions posted on this forum thread (http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z-ZL-ZR/My-Sony-Xperia-Z-won-t-start-turn-on-after-failed-update-attempt/m-p/401787#M20133) have also failed. When I plug the phone into the wall charger, the LED comes on red, the SONY logo appears on my screen, followed by a message indicating that "The Software update failed. Make sure that your phone is connected to the computer and try again.", and then the phone turns itself off. The cycle repeats itself with no indication that my phone's actually being charged. Since it is unable to charge, plugging the phone into my computer does not trigger the update process to start, so I can't "try again", as the message so helpfully suggests. The computer also does not recognise my phone as being connected despite following the PC Companion's instructions to 1) unplug the device, 2) remove and replace the battery (which I can't do, because the battery is built in), and 3) turn it back on (which, again, I can't do, because the phone won't charge in the first place), before 4) plugging it back into the computer. Please help... Thank you.

LR3 crashes at startup when it automatically attempts to find a missing file.

I have, of course, uninstalled and reinstalled the program several times, along with computer reboots each time. It is still trying to find this file. I even attempted to find and replace the file so it could find it, but nothing seems to work. Thank you for any help you can offer.

And, just like washing your car to make it rain, I managed to resolve this problem seconds after posting. For anyone else who has had this trouble, I kept moving the "missing file" around until the program "found" it in the expected place. (Difficult, since I have no idea where the file started out.) THanks!

Can't open folder after failed copy

Hello,
I have a WD MyBookLive NAS drive which, up until Mavericks, I had been succesfully using as a Time Machine backup over WiFi. However after Mavericks it became unusable (This is well documented throughout this site and in other places - however there is no fix in sight).
Having given up on Time Machine for backup (and deleting it's backup archives in a failed attempt at troubleshooting) I went about manually copying my files to a share I had created specifically for this purpose on the NAS drive.
I did a test of about 5 Gb worth of files and all went OK, copying in about 5 minutes.
I then started to copy the rest of my data - about 750 Gb in all, mostly raw video and iMovie files. The copy began and proceeded as expected so I left it alone, However when I looked at it a few hours later it said that a copy had failed because the file "clip-135-02-05 05;27;15.dv" couldn't be read or written, with no option to either try again or skip over the offending file - it simply stopped the copy dead... Grrrr
When I checked the destination folder (after having to re-log in to it) with a Get Info it was 134Gb - so a lot of progress had been made in the copy.
HOWEVER, although I could do a "Get Info" on the destination folder, its icon is greyed out and I cannot open it. Worse yet I cannot delete it. When I tried to do so it deleted about 2/3rds of the content but stopped saying "The operation can’t be completed because the item “clip-135-02-05 05;27;15.dv” is in use."
I tried using "GraveYard" to delete it but it couldn't do it.
I'm now left with a 45Gb greyed out folder that I cannot open or delete...
Any Ideas??
Also, when I searched for "clip-135-02-05 05;27;15.dv" in the source folder, it came back with about 12 files - all seemingly legit, but in different folders - so I've no easy way of knowing which one of these may be the problem file (maybe none of them are, maybe the WiFi failed at a critical point while copying that file and corrupted the destination).
Either way it seems odd that a failure of ONE file during a copy could cause so much trouble...
Help!

Thanks Pierre-Yves
Update:
I was running 10.9.2 - in fact the reason I ended up with this manual copy problem was because I was hoping that 10.9.2 may have fixed the Time Machine problem I mentioned above, but it didn't!
Continuing from where I left off after the failure above...
I thought I'd skip WiFi and use a direct ethernet cable to my router for a more reliable connection. I hooked it up, disabled WiFi and began the copy again from the start. (Copy speed was pretty much the same as with WiFi - I guess this is as fast as my NAS can handle things). The time estimation got to 17 hrs so I left it overnight. The next day it was still going with no apparent problems.
It got to about 620Gb out of the roughly 750Gb BUT then stopped again. This time the error was different:
"The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items."
...and again, frustratingly, no other option but to click "OK". Further, it gave no indication of the problematic file.
However, at least this time I could open and examine the contents of the destination folder to see what was and wasn't copied. By doing a few "Get Info"s on the various folders and comparing sizes and file counts I was eventually able to identify which files and folders didn't make it. (Oddly it was a selection from roughly the middle of the original folder list - sorted alphabetically, I thought it would have been at the end).
I started to copy the missing items, fully expecting to come across a permissions error at some point. However I didn't and was able to complete my "backup". When I compared "Get Info"s on the source and destination folders they showed the same number of items and roughly the same no of bytes - Good enough for me.
So, for now, my immeadiate problem of not being able to make a backup has gone away.
Nonetheless, my experience with this (and the well documented Time Machine problems) leaves me doubting OSx reliability (how can there be problems with permissions during one copy attempt but not the next?) and user friendliness. I'm not a Windows fan by any stretch, but at least when Windows has a problem copying it tells you which file it had the problem with and offers you to skip over it and continue with the copy. With OSx, it's all or nothing with no remedies and often no meaningful fault indication... Very frustrating...
One last thing: I had mentioned in my first post that I had been left with a Greyed out image of a 45Gb folder that wouldn't delete. I tried again today and, although it was still grey, it did actually delete - so at least that somehow fixed itself...
Thanks for your input.
I await the next OS update to see if things improve...

Missing files after upgrading to lr 2.3

lr 1.4 starting acting odd a couple days ago when certain photos in certain folders when clicked on and viewed in the filmstrip mode suddently changed right in front of me. they were cting like the syn mode was stuck in +20 wb. as soon as the change occured on each file there appeared an error message above it with 3 straight lines and an exclamation mark saying metadata had been charged. so i figured it was finally time to upgrade to 2.3 which i did by trying the trial issue just to see if the files showed up normal or appeared corrupted or changed too. well it got worse when the new catalog automatically loaded and of my 25,000 images nearly all say photo missing. this wouldn't be a problem if this was a couple but it is most of the catalog. i did a back up before the devil took over my machine and started changing the metadata. so i have that if i knew what to do with that info.
I was hold on the phone to tech support from 6-7 last night and have been on hold with tech support since 10 am and it is now 1:30 on the west coast. I can't do much of any of my work as all my files, editing, printing are tied to LR. i got desperate and even tried creating a new catalog but when i clicked the photos on my tree in explorer to add them to a new catalog lr couldn't see them. i have avg software and no virus, i can see my photos in explorer, adobe cs3 and in bridge. i haven't changed the placement of the folders on my computer, any changes i have done have been within lr and they were mainly adding new meta tags which also didn't come thru and renaming some of the files from 2009-3-9 to adding pt scenery etc.
i'm totally frustrated, i have spent so much time on hold i had to run out and spend $40 to buy a land phone so i could sit here without my phone battery dying. any suggestions while i sit here? i'm afraid to hang up on cs as i have been disconnected twice and they must have some sort of order in answering however at this point in time i can't figure it out.

i have been so busy trying to find the files i just went back to some older files and found that the same rendering problem still exists. i open a folder click on a photo in the filmstrip and it automatically changes before my eyes, for a second i see a message that says rendering setting changed. i didn't touch a thing it just does it. i have gone into the syn and checked that everything is unchecked and it still happens. is there some other place for the rendering setting to be changed? it can't be a preference that i've accidently changed?
For those photos that are changing, I can think of two things that it may be:
If images are edited outside of Lightroom (in Camera Raw, etc), that can change the metadata (or Develop settings) of the file. When you view the file next time in Lightroom, the new conflicting settings are applied to that photo.
When raw files are imported into Lightroom, they initially appear with the embedded camera-generated JPEG preview. After that, Lightroom generates its own previews which typically look different than the original ones.
Not sure if it's either one of those.
so you think i can just click on your link and do the 2.4 update and things should work? i'm just not sure i want to do a backup with all the missing files, won't 2.4 open up with all the same problems or do you think the file naming issue will be corrected?
I'm not saying that upgrading to 2.4 will necessarily fix the way things are now. I doubt that it would make it worse, though. I think you should make sure your photos and catalog are backed up, which it sounds like you said they are, then upgrade to 2.4 (if you're not already running that version).
After the upgrade, you can go through your catalog and clean things up.
-Scott

Missing files after System Recovery, HP Pavillion G62, Windows 7, 64 bit.

My 5 month old laptop is showing signs of slowing down. When this occurs I do a system recovery in an effort to correct any problems. After completion of system recovery I always get the following error;
                         (the system cannot find the file specified (Ox80070002))
                           C:\users\owner\applicationdata\locallow.
                           C:\users\owner\contacts.
                           C:\users\owner\searches.
The notice is in Notepad. None of the files can be found with a search from the main menu. If no refererence to the files can be found how does the computer know they exist? My feeling is that the computer cannot operate up to speed with missing files?
I do have some other oddities occuring but I don't think you can solve anything if files are missing.

Those are user file locations and will not affect windows or how it runs, you can ignore that error.

Missing indexes after system copy

Hi All
we have around 70,000 missing indexes after the system copy
offline export from
source with sun solaris oracle
To
Linux oracle
but these appeared after we Run SGEN , which took 60 hours for a 200 Gb database.
and target system response is also slow , how to go ahead with this issue
we have checked export and import logs , none of the packages were missed
1 Why these missing indexes after SGEN , and why SGEN for 60 hours
2 when we check the Tables which appeared in Missing indexes ,from SE14 it says In Consistency with Data dictionary
3 and the other error , is Index Missing in the database ,
4 but we cant create all these manually.
Regards

Hi Matt
Thanks for the response
After sap suggestion , we have done only import again, with 721 R3load same as export.
but still the R3load.exe.log of import shows as done with 720 kernel.
import R3load.exe log //bas/720_REL/src/R3ld/R3load/R3ldmain.c#
export R3load.exe log //bas/721_REL/src/R3ld/R3load/R3ldmain.c#10 $ SAP
But when we compare the sapinst_dev and AGR logs both from export and import
both are referring the same 721 R3load version ,
//bas/721_REL/src/R3ld/R3load/R3ldmain.c
still we have same missing indexes issue , after we did the import again.
Are we making any mistakes in export , Any suggestions are welcome
hi all , kindly respond with your inputs , on this
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HT5654 Missing files after the update

I am unable to start itunes since the latest update. I keep getting missing files pop up boxes and I have followed the directions and reinstalled - have tried both using the repair function and a the uninstall and reinstall function but nothing has fixed the problem. What do I do now?

Hi there,
Earlier iTunes (and supporting applications) need to be completely uninstalled before you can install the new version. Here's the complete Apple info on this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Mobile device application will most likely fail to uninstall, so you would need to visit its location(s) and manually delete the files then folder(s). The location of the folders is documented in this link from Apple.
It's a pain, but it should work.

Finding all missing files - not just music

My library had 39 missing files, the problem is I can only find 2 exclamation marks for 2 audiobooks I already knew had a problem. I've seen the new playlist trick for locating missing files (for example), but I don't think that will help me as I don't think the other 37 are in the music section - I can't find any exclamation marks anywhere in my 3000 songs. I did think that it might be related to podcasts, but again, I can't find any exclamations. Is there anyway of determining which files are the broken ones?

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Missing Files after Lion Upgrade

After upgrading to Lion I am missing files from a folder named "printers" I had created. The previous os used a "printer" folder but not "printers". It seems as if the Lion operating system deleted the existing folder and placed new files in there. I've searched the computer after enabling hidden files to no avail. Any ideas as to how to recover the files?
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If in the top-level System or Library folder, that's why; those were replaced by the Lion installer, since we mere mortals are not supposed to fool with them.
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Missing files after moving itunes music folder

i moved my itunes music folder to my external hard drive using the directions posted here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748 to the letter. a lot of things transfered but now when i look in my itunes music folder and compare to my itunes library, i see that a lot of things are missing. i really don't want to have to go through every single artist folder and check every song. shouldn't consolidating my library have taken care of this?

I just had a very similar issue, I moved my iTunes library from a 120Gb Drive to a 500Gb and the library was a bit corrupted because the main drive was full b/c of an error, but that's besides the fact.
SOLUTION To missing files, that aren't really missing because they exist and were all copied no problems.
go to the iTunes folder in your Home folder, and move the iTunes Music Library.xml file to your desktop (with itunes closed of course)
Then re-open itunes and the library file that's not an xml doc, will re-search your files and all should be well.
You should be able to safely delete the xml doc now, because iTunes made a new one.
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Missing Files After Deleting OS X System Folder from Disk

This is my first post; I'll try to be brief.
I got a new computer (G5 dual) and so wanted to "clean up" my G4 tower for my wife's use. I had three hard drives in the G4, one of which was an 80 GB drive with OS X (Tiger, I think) on it. Another drive had OS 9 on it.
I bought a 300 GB drive for the G4 and put Tiger on that drive. Then I moved OS 9 to the 80 GB drive. In the process, far as I can remember, I deleted only the OS X System Folder from the 80 GB drive (not any prominent folders that appear in "fancy" form on the left side of a Finder Window); so, one OS on each drive.
I deleted a number of files, and moved a number of files, in the process of doing my "clean up." Those files that I *moved* I can now find, no problem. But I left some files in the Movies folder (the "fancy" folder that is on the left side of a Finder Window in OS X) on the 80 GB, and those I now cannot find. My concern is that perhaps, in deleting the OS X System Folder from that drive I somehow either 1) also deleted the Movies Folder (inside the Home Folder inside the Users Folder) by the very act of deleting the System Folder (which seems unlikely to me) or 2) I managed to "hide" the Movies Folder by deleting the OS X System Folder.
I have far more available space on the 80 GB drive than I would expect to see, given the steps I had to take to get some files onto CDs, etc. (I needed all the space I could free up, as I recall). So, this suggests the missing files just might still be there. Spotlight can't see them; booting in OS 9 and using Sherlock doesn't reveal them....
Have I inadvertantly removed these files, or is there hope that they can be restored to life? A related question: If I did delete these files, is there a way to "un-delete" them at this stage?)
Many thanks for any thought anyone may have.
Bob ("rsimon")
G4 Tower (pre-mirror) Mac OS X (10.4.3) Also have G5 dual

If you did actually delete your valuable files, you want to stop using that computer as soon as possible. You'd have a good chance to recover deleted files, unless they're already overwritten by other data.
Boot your G4 in Firewire Target Disk Mode (hold down "T" at startup) and connect it to your new G5 using a Firewire cable.
The drives inside the G4 will mount as removable media, so you can browse them and try to find your movies folder. It should be located at
harddrive/user/username/movies.
You can use a utility like WhatSize to find large, (maybe hidden) files.
Post back, in case your data has disappeared and you need a file recovery tool.
Good luck.

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