IPhoto Modified Folder Issue

I am having issues understanding why some of my photos are showing up in the Modified folder of my iPhoto library. I understand that when you edit a photo, iPhoto copies the new edited version into the "Modified" folder. However, I haven't edited any of the photos that have been copied into the folder. I have only imported and viewed my pictures.
I've even reverted "edited" photos back to their originals. The copies in "Modified" are momentarily deleted, however, as soon as I open a picture, they are immediately copied again. Going back to iPhoto, when I right click the photo, once again the option "revert to original" is present.
This only seems to be happening for photos which I took with my iPhone and imported.
Has anyone else had a problem with this? Anybody have any ideas of what is causing the problem, how to fix it, or anything else I should investigate?
Thanks

In a little more detail:
Your camera has an Auto-Rotate feature. However, the camera does not actually rotate any pixels in the file, but instead flags it with an instruction: "Display me this way". No photo app with editing can respect this flag, so iPhoto, seeing the flag, reads the intention and creates a modified version. If you then try to Revert to Original, iPhoto will remove the edited version. However, when it then looks at the Original file again, it sees the flag, and creates a new rotated version. This loop will run as long as you Revert to the Original. The solution is to either a: turn off the Auto-Rotate feature on your camera or b: rotate the photos prior to importing them to iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements 6 the Saving File preferences should be configured: "On First Save: Save Over Current File". Also I suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always.
If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
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This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Cannot locate Modified folder.

I recently bought a new iMAC and have imported my photos I stored on my portable hard drive. It seems the Modified folder was present at first but now I cannot locate it on the side bar with the Library, Recent, and Albums lists. To complicate things, I installed Photoshop 8 and tried to make some basic edits, just to try to learn how everything works.
I saved a few photos as new files (new names) but they did not show up on iPhoto. When I tried to import them, a message came up saying they were already in the iPhoto Modified folder. Anyone have any idea what is going on?
Thanks.

Primary rule - NEVER make any changes of any sort to the contents or structure of the iPhoto library
Secondary rule - there is no reason to ever directly access the contents of the iPhoto library
iPhoto is a relational database and it must totally control its data - all access and changes must be done using iPhoto
click here for a discussion on correctly and safely accessing your photos.
To use Photoshop as an editor set it as the external editor in the iPhoto preferences - now editing a photo will properly send it to PS and saving is in PS (Not save as) will properly return it to iPhoto and properly update the database records
right clicking (control clicking) on a photo will allow you to choose PS or iPhoto as the editor
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Iphoto data folder different than originals and modified

Some of the thumbnails in my Iphoto library have no picture file linked to them.
I played with some pictures which were brought onto my computer from a camera with the time poorly set up. In doing so, some of the pictures in the data folder cannot be found in Iphoto. They are all there when I search through the originals and modified folders. It seems I may be able to replace contents of the data folder with contents from the orig/mod folders, seeing as all of the data is on an external drive.
I routed Iphoto to use the backed up library as its source. All seems well, except for the folder issue. Is there and easy solution?

I moved a bunch of folders around to open up space on my meager 80g HD Macbook so I could up grade to SL and not risk loosing any data. I moved the iphoto library to the external HD. I may have updated a previous back up and not changed the Data folder in the process. I think I updated the original and modified folders only into the HD's previous iphoto backup. The only folders I moved out of the original Iphoto folder in "pictures" were the modified and original folders because they were the largest files. The data folder and all others remain unchanged.
Once SL was up and running smoothly, I opened Iphoto with the option button pressed and chose the program to read the pics from the Iphoto library on the external drive.
Interestinly, When I did the same thing with my Itunes library it took about 20 minutes to load the library, in contrast, Iphoto was instant. Like it was reading the data folder within the computers HD and searching for the picture in the external. Movie clips seem to not be working at all. They don't seem to open QT automatically, or even work when it's open.

IPhoto and the Modified Folder

Hello,
I do NOT modify any of original pictures and yet I have a whoppingly large (52 gb!) modified folder. I do use iPhoto to upload my pictures onto my facebook. Is iPhoto modifying the originals and uploading it into facebook, and thus creating items into my modified folder? Since it's so large of a file, I'd like to deleted the modified folder, but I don't want to lose said photos on Facebook. If I deleted it, would anything happen to my Facebook photos that I uploaded? I am using iPhoto '09 8.1.2 (424) and OS 10.6.8
Thanks!

Usual reasons for unexpected images in the Modifieds folder include:
1. You're importing Raws. Iphoto creates a Jpeg preview of each Raw on import.
2. You're importing Jpegs with Exif tags such as Auto-Rotate. A camera does not actually rotate any pixels in the file, but instead flags it with an instruction: "Display me this way". This is a tag in the Exif metadata. When you import a file with this tag iPhoto creates a modified version. It does this because most of the apps that integrate with it - email clients, word processors etc - simply don't understand this Exif tag. So if you used the shot in a word processing doc, uploaded it to many Web site etc, the shot would come out sideways.
And
I've actually done it before. I moved my originals folder somewhere else and nothing happened to my library.
If you did that then your library is a mess and that may be part of the issue - you simply can not change the contents of the library withou causin gissues
LN

IPhoto keeps on generating photos in "modified" folder

Hi,
I'm really frustrated with how iPhoto duplicates edited photos. Therefore, I don't really do any editing in iPhoto anymore. However, the "modified" folder still has copies of photos I never edited. I select those photos in iPhoto and choose "revert to original". the photos in the modfied folder disappear for a while... but they are just regenerated after a few seconds! I've tried deleting the photos in the modified folder through the Finder, but the same thing happens. For some reason, iPhoto keeps on creating "modified" photos. To my knowledge, thats only supposed to happen when I edit in iPhoto. But again, no editing whatsoever has been done.
Do help!

Enzo2121
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
But again, no editing whatsoever has been done.
Actually there has.
Your camera has an auto-rotate feature. This feature flags the photo with an instruction "Display Me This Way Up". The file is not changed, no actual pixels get turned. No application with editing capabilities respects these flags. iPhoto sees the flag and reads it as an instruction: Rotate Me. Rotation is an edit, hence the modified version.
When you try Revert to Original, iPhoto destroys the Modified version and reads the Original again. Of course the Original has this flag put there by the camera, iPhoto sees the flag and creates a new modified version. So you have a loop.
Solution: 1. Turn off auto-rotate on your camera or 2. Rotate the pics with another app before importing them. Make sure that the app you chooses actually rotates pixels.
I've tried deleting the photos in the modified folder through the Finder,
*It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss*
I'm really frustrated with how iPhoto duplicates edited photos. Therefore, I don't really do any editing in iPhoto anymore.
Any photo you edit via iPhoto also has a preserved original. If you don't edit via iPhoto, then iPhoto won't know about the edits, and your thumbnails will not reflect the reality of the photo. If you don't want this feature, bluntly, you'll be better off not using iPhoto. There are other photo organisers out there. Search on MacUpdate.
Regards
TD

Simple, non-bloated usage of iPhoto- no "modified" folder, etc, etc wanted

Apologies if this has all been asked and answered. Searched a little and couldn't quite find the answers I'm seeking.
I've resisted using iPhoto for years, it never seemed to do what I want. Just bought a new iMac with the newer version of iPhoto, so I want to try it.
I have a lot (tens of thousands) of canon .raw images on an external HDD, organized into folders according to time and place shot, etc. I intend to keep them that way (external, and organized as they are). I need a photo organizer that will allow me to quickly see thumbnails of all or any of the photos, organized into whatever classes or groups that I want, with the ability to add and edit tags (date, place, people, etc), and perhaps be able to do simple image tweeking, resizing and printing. Sounds like iPhoto, so I just did a test run by importing a folder of raw images, and set preferences so that it didn't import the master file. Once all of the thumbnails were generated, I selected all, and hit the "play" button, assuming that it was a slideshow, to preview the images. I thought it would quickly make some temporary jpgs for the slideshow, then delete them when I quit. So far so good, but I looked into the "Pictures" directory in my user directory, and I see that 3 new directories were created, under the library called "test" that I created. One is "Data", the second is "Modified", and the third, "Originals". "Data" contains small .jpg thumbnails of all of the photos, at 30 or 40k each. "Originals" also contains all of the file names, same structure, but listed as shortcuts to the originals, also very small at about 4k each, but then there's the "Modified" folder, with 1 to 1.5 MEG files of all of the photos.
I understand the shortcuts and thumbnails, but why the "modified" folder? Is that from the slideshow? Seems that if I decide to process and create a picture, I should have the option of creating jpgs or tifs, and storing them where I wish. What's the point of all of those 1.5Meg files, slowing things down, and taking up space on the hard drive? Don't want them, don't need them. How do I avoid them? Does Aperture make similar 1 meg+ files of all images? I really don't want to spend that money on a cataloging program, but for sure I don't want all of those files needlessly created. Any settings in iPhoto that I'm not seeing to avoid having the "Modified" folder and images created?
thanks much!
PoserBook AL G4 1.25G 1.5RAM iMac 24 2.33 7600 2RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

RS:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The modified files are the jpg conversions of the RAW files. RAW files are like negatives and are never touched in the editing process, even by professional applications. If you shoot RAW then there's no way to avoid having the modified, jpg version of it in iPhoto. Aperture covers the RAW to either tiff or jpg to use. RAW files cannot be edited it it's natural form. It's just the nature of the beast and game.
When you're dealing with RAW then you've committed yourself to using lots of HD space. Unless you're a professional or doing very advanced amateur work, RAW tends to be a little overkill. IMO, it's just the buzz in the photographic industry right now and intended for pros.
Do you Twango?
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IPhoto copying unedited pictures into modified folder!

Hi everybody!
recently I've noticed the size of my iPhoto library growing without me adding any photos, so I checked the folders and discovered that whole events had been copied into the modified folder without me even having edited them!
I marked all those pictures and clicked on "back to original", but when I checked the modified folder again, I could watch while the same pictured were being copied in there again!!
Does anyone else have this problem and if yes, how can it be stopped?
Thanks in advance,
Phil

First try deleting the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder. Launch iPhoto and try importing again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Next, if necessary, log into another user account on your Mac, launch iPhoto and import some test images to see if the situation is repeated. If so then a reinstall of iPhoto is warranted. To do so you'll have to first delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name with either a .PKG or .BOM extension that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder, reinstall iPhoto from the disk it came on and reapply the latest updaters.
OT

Wierd iPhoto 6 Folder Structure "issue"

A number of people here are having MAJOR problems with iPhoto not opening certain files in Edit view. The long-winded details are here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=316657&tstart=0
In trying to figure out what was going on, I noticed something strange about the new folder structure, at least as it is on my two machines.
One of the things that iPhoto 6 does when it "upgrades" the library the first time you run it is reorganize the photos from iPhoto 5 in a much simpler and more sensible way then they used to be. Before, everything was organized in this way:
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Modified/Year/Roll #
and
Originals/Year/Roll #
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But here is the odd thing I have found in my folders (and this is true across three different libraries, one with 2500, one with 2000, and another with 13000 photos in them): In addition to the new sets of folders, there are a bunch of folders in the Library folder that are STILL in the old format. (/Year /Month / Day / Originals and / Modified)
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Unfortunately there is no way to repeat the upgrade process to force the program to organize everything in the new format (once a library is labeled as 6.0, that's it.)
Doesn't this seem odd? Does anyone else have the same thing going on in their libraries? Doesn't this seem like something that will create problems down the line, maybe when I upgrade to iPhoto 7? Doesn't it just seem like bad software design, even if it "works"?
- Andrew

Hi Armedia,
i don't know if you read Nick LDN's post in one of the threads, but here is what he deduced ....
"When upgrading to iPhoto 6, the 'recovered photos' it finds are stored as follows:
a if you opt to import the photos when iPhoto asks, they are left where iPhoto found them (or lost them, depending on how you view it...) in the 'year' folder system, within the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder; e.g. 2005>12>15>photo.jpg, 2003>10>05>photo2.jpg etc. Within iPhoto itself the photos are grouped in one new roll, and an album is created in the Source list called "Recovered Photos".
b if you opt not to import the photos, they are moved from the 'year' folder system in the Finder into one folder within the iPhoto Library folder, entitled "Recovered Photos". The 'year' folders can be deleted, if they are still there - you should find that they are empty and they are not used by iPhoto 6.
In Case b you can move the "Recovered Photos" folder to anywhere you like, e.g the Desktop, as the photos are no longer associated with iPhoto. In fact, if you decide you need to import some or all of the photos back into iPhoto, you will have to move the RP folder to another location as iPhoto will disallow any import from within the iPhoto Library folder.
Take care either way; in my case I had 1014 recovered photos, which included all of the following:
a originals of some of my photos, the edited versions were still in iPhoto
b random duplicates of original photos
c photos, both original and edited versions, which I had deleted long ago - sometimes as long as 2-3 years, many versions of iPhoto ago!"
For me personally, iPhoto told me it had recovered some photos. i don't remember now if I told it to import or not (I think I am losing it) Anyway, when it was done, the first thing I did was take a look at the folder in the Finder. I checked through the loose Year/Month/day folders and all of mine were empty so I deleted them all in the finder. I opened iPhoto and all was fine (I already had made a backup so I felt safe deleting the empty folders)

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- OR -
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Let me start by saying that I am a big Apple fan. I have a Macbook Pro (end 2006) running 10.6 with a 30 inch Cinema Display, a 23 inch iMac (mid 2007), and an iPhone 3G and a Nano 5th G. I am an Apple Certified Systems Administrator and was also the first person in Japan to be certified on OS X 10.5 as an Apple Certified Support Professional, however I am primarily an Windows Active Directory/Exchange Server engineer.
I have been using iPhoto since version 06 (end of 2006). I upgraded to 08 as soon as it was released then last year I upgraded to 09. Until recently I had about 18,000 photos in my iPhoto library, but due to the issue listed below I have now switched to Windows Live Photo Gallery on Windows 7 for managing my photos (these are synced using Windows Live Sync to my Mac's Photo folder where I then use Picasa for Mac. Sounds complicated but actually not and it means I can import my photos on my Mac or PC and they are synced both ways. Anyway...
I posted the following Bug Report to: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
If you use iPhoto and don't want to spend days/weeks fixing your folder names and reorganizing photos into correct folders if your library becomes corrupt or you ever want to move your photos out of iPhoto then please provide feedback to Apple so that they know that we are not happy about this.
Bug Report.
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Previously in iPhoto 08, when renaming an event in iPhoto the folder structure would also be updated. Additionally splitting or merging events would move the files in the iPhoto Library package's folder structure. This is a major problem for me and many other users on the Apple.com iPhoto 09 discussion forums, and this issue has existed since the beginning of 2009!
I need my photo's folders named correctly for the following reasons:
1). Incase I should ever need to move photos out of iPhoto and to another application or platform, I would' have to spend days or even weeks renaming all the folders.
2). If my iPhoto library ever become corrupt and I needed to recreate it then I would loose ALL my event names (hence the details) if iPhoto doesn't keep the folder names the same as the events.
I have recently spent many hours migrating my photos out of iPhoto and renaming the folders manually. iPhoto really was all I ever needed in a photo management application but with this underling bug/issue I can't trust all my photos to it's library format of storage, but I do hope this gets fixed so that I can migrate back to iPhoto in the near future. Might I suggest that the best way forward for the future would be change iPhoto so that it can monitor folders (the same way Picasa does so, this is open and then gives customers the choice of using multiple apps for accessing their photos).
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A bug can be an error or fault in the software but it can also be a design flaw which IMO this is.
No it can't. A design flaw is just that. A bug is when the software fails to works as designed. iPhoto is working as designed. You may prefer it work another way, but that's your preference. Remember you can always use a different product for managing your photos. You're not required to use iPhoto, you know.
Exporting dumps all the photos into a single folder which again doesn't solve either points 1 or 2 that I made.
Yes - if you export the entire Library at once.
If, however, you export each Event in turn (an process that can be automated with either Automator or AppleScript) then it will export to appropriately named folders.
And, as to any issue of corruption, the simple fact is that backing up is the ultimate protection.
What you want will possibly preserve your Event names. But that's all. It won't preserve albums, slideshows, metadata, the relationship between original and modified versions, the non-destructive editing and so on and so forth. All you'll get will be some folder names.
Now that's both your points answered. For the second time.
I'm not sure why there are so many Apple apologists on these forums.
I see, so someone who explains to you that you have misunderstood something, explains to you a better way of doing what you want to do is an "apologist"? Just like your definition of "bug" it's a mite idiosyncratic. And rude.
I am pretty sure that at some point there will be many users who will want to migrate out of iPhoto and when they do they won't be very happy when they realize that they are locked in.
Nobody, I repeat nobody, is locked into iPhoto. That statement is a falsehood. File -> Export and off you go.
we can either sit back and just accept these limitations, anti-competative vender lockins and design flaws or we can voice our concerns to Apple and get things changed for the better of everyone.
Every software has limitations. What you have failed to show is that any of the matters that concern you are actually "limitations". There are no
anti-competative (sic) vender (sic) lockins (sic)
iPhoto works with entirely standard formats. All your files and metadata are easily accessible throughout the OS and can be easily exported.
Regards
TD

How to "Smart Update" an iPhoto Library Folder

Hi:
Searched the archives but didn't find a thread which quite addressed this exact scenario (but if there is one, please let me know):
I want to occasionally "Smart Update" the iPhoto Library folder on my wife's iMac, so that it matches the "master" iPhoto Library folder on my PowerMac, since any new pictures we take all get imported onto my machine -- first for editing (in PS Elements) and then organizing (extensive captioning, Keyword sorting, etc.) using iPhoto.
While I can simply copy the 8-9GB folder onto an external drive, then move that drive upstairs, connect it to the other machine, and copy that entire folder over while erasing the earlier version (all for the sake of say 50MB worth of new and/or modified images), it would obviously be much easier if I could just "Smart Update" (to use the SuperDuper! backup app term) the receiving folder so it matched the master one, and did that smart updating over my existing wireless AirPort network.
The iPhoto option of Sharing my master library is unfortunately too slow via the wireless network to be a practical alternative.
I know about the prohibitions against manually mucking around with any iPhoto Library folder via the Finder, but in this case, would a "Smart Updated" iPhoto Library folder function correctly (i.e. the same as the master folder from which it was "cloned"), or would additional "application support" files also have to be copied from the master machine?
I would do a test using my registered copy of SuperDuper!, but unfortunately it's a volumes-only solution. I've always wished that Apple's Finder offered a "Smart Update" option when copying folders to a location where a folder by the same name already exists (in Leopard -- please?), but failing that, what 3rd-party apps (freeware would be nice!) should I try to test out this workflow?
Thanks,
John Bertram
Toronto, Canada

John:
To add to TD's post, the Feb. issue of MacWorld has a review of several backup applications. I believe it is online at their site. This will work only if your wife does not make any changes, i.e. add new photos, delete photos or add albums, etc.
If you wife uses iPhoto for making slideshows, etc., your only option is to use iPhoto Library Manager to add new rolls to your wife's library like this.
Do you Twango?
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I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Raul

This is by far the most ask question - you would have had to look back at least ten posts to find the answer
look here for the complete discussion --- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1178149&tstart=15
For g-mail specify go to you g-mail preferences and allow POP 3 access to your account and set the g-mail account up in Apple mail - then you can select photo(s) in iPhoto, click on mail and have a new e-mail created in Apple mail which you send via G-Mail
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Hi,
I'm a new MAC user.
Here's my set-up : I've got a MacBook Pro connected to an Aiport Extreme, and I plugged a WD 1Tb drive to the Airport Extreme.
So I set up iTunes preference so my music library is directly on the Terabyte drive. Everytime I add something to iTunes it gets on the Tb drive.
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Uge
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
However I must point out that many posters on here have problems with iPhoto and wireless connections - iPhoto is a much more complex app than iTunes, it doesn't like the Samba protocol, it has definite issues on disks that are not formatted MacOS extended (Journalled) and folks also find it very slow.
Regards
TD

Sharer folder issue between two directly connected PC

Dear All, I have an issue regarding folder sharing. need your help to resolve this. the scenario is
two PC's are connected directly to share a folder, to open *.mdb file of a accounting software. this problem start when I moved windows XP PC's and installed windows 7 64 bit PC's. there is no compatibility issue as I run the same software on other
locations
PC A (192.168.1.200) has that *.mdb file and PC B (192.168.1.100) has to open this file through a network.
when I configured the folder share and network setting, all done well and PC B can connect with PC A and that software work well. After two days, when we start the software at PC B, its not responding when it try's to open that database file.
while analyzing, I found out that PC B can open the share folder of PC A but when open the desired database folder explore starts not responding and need to quit it by force. I also tried to share another folder of PC A but results are same.
PC A run the software with out any problem.
It seems like network issue, so I check the cable with cable tester, found it good, than I check the connectivity by ping command, it giving me <1ms time. but still change the connectors.
the hard part is that, this share folder issue arises 3-4 days a week and 2-3 days it works well, and this is happening from last 28 days. I mean, one day we start the the PC B and use the software via network, the next day we start the PC B and we don't
able to use the software,..strange.
I also change the cable connection from cross to straight as both new PC's have gigabit Ethernet but results are same.
I already contact with software company, as per them its network issue as we can use the software on local PC (PC A) and there is no error messages popup.
please help me out in this regard.
Thanks Tanveer

Hi,
Firstly, we need to identify is this file sharing or netowrking problem. If you can access to the shared folder and modify its files which locate at PC B through PC A, it indicates file sharing works with no problem.
After that, we need to check if its networking or software itself problem when reading the .mdb file.
Put the .mdb file at PC A, then using the software open it for test. If no problem, we need to use Process Monitor to capture the access trace of the software process, we should be able to find some clues.
You can access to the link below to download Process Monitor:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
How to capture a Process Monitor trace:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dswl/archive/2010/01/10/how-to-capture-a-process-monitor-trace.aspx
Learning Example:
Using Process Monitor to Troubleshoot and Find Registry Hacks:
http://www.howtogeek.com/school/sysinternals-pro/lesson5/all/
Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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