Lightroom isn't synchronising folders with my Finder

I am using a Mac. I am trying to synchronise my folders within LR with the folders in my Finder. This normally works well for me but I am having issues today. When I right-click and choose the Synchronise Folder option it is doing one of two things, both of which are not right:
1) It is not picking up the new subfolders within the folder I am synchronising at all, it just doesn't display them as existing in the library.
or
2) the new subfolder appears but not all of the contents appear. In this case, the Subfolder (lets call it X) appears, as well as a subfolder of RAW files within that (call that Y), but the jpeg, png, Tif and PSD files also within folder X will not display. However, if I try to copy the jpeg/png/etc files over to Folder X from within the LR Library interface, it tells me I cannot copy as the file already exists in that location. But it will not show them to me.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

Do you have beta(trial version) installed for light room? If yes, then uninstall it completely by checking the preference boxes too.
Now restart the computer & download & install from the CC desktop App. It should work.
Regards
Rajshree

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"Lifeblog encounters problems transferring items. Please check the connection and try again. If the problem persists, restart Lifeblog and/or the PC and try again.
Possible reasons: An item that you are trying to transfer may be opened in an application on your phone or PC, the multimedia card (MMC) on your phone or your PC hard disk may be full.
For more information see Lifeblog Online Help, Troubleshooting, Transfer Problems."
In the course of this problem I had done the followings:
* Restart the computer and try again
* Restart the 6630 and try again
* Restart both the PC and the 6630 and try again
* Check both the MMC (354 MB free) and my PC hard disk (16 GB free), restart both and try again
* Uninstall Nokia PC-Suite and reinstall it and try again
* Went to see the "Troubleshooting" which wasn't any help at all
* Updated the firmware and try again
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All to no avail.
Any help?
Information:
Phone:
Nokia 6630
Firmware version 6.03.08
Operating system:
Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2
Nokia PC Suite:
Version 6.81.13.0
Language: English
Connectivity Cable Drivers:
Version 6.81.1.2

23-Aug-2006
10:01 AM
elemmaciltur wrote:
Since about 2 weeks now, I cannot synchronise the stuff from my 6630 Lifeblog onto the PC Lifeblog. I keep getting the following message:
"Lifeblog encounters problems transferring items. Please check the connection and try again. If the problem persists, restart Lifeblog and/or the PC and try again.
Possible reasons: An item that you are trying to transfer may be opened in an application on your phone or PC, the multimedia card (MMC) on your phone or your PC hard disk may be full.
For more information see Lifeblog Online Help, Troubleshooting, Transfer Problems."
In the course of this problem I had done the followings:
* Restart the computer and try again
* Restart the 6630 and try again
* Restart both the PC and the 6630 and try again
* Check both the MMC (354 MB free) and my PC hard disk (16 GB free), restart both and try again
* Uninstall Nokia PC-Suite and reinstall it and try again
* Went to see the "Troubleshooting" which wasn't any help at all
* Updated the firmware and try again
* Re-installing PC-Suite (newest version), Lifeblog (newest version) on both phone and PC and try again
All to no avail.
Any help?
Information:
Phone:
Nokia 6630
Firmware version 6.03.08
Operating system:
Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2
Nokia PC Suite:
Version 6.81.13.0
Language: English
Connectivity Cable Drivers:
Version 6.81.1.2
I've occasionally had the same error message you experienced above and have been able to solve it although I have not been able to localise whereabouts the problem is occurring.
As an aside, I don't think you mention what version of LifeBlog you are using but FYI (For Your Information) v2.1.131 is out.
I've composed a list of things you should look at to find out why this is happening - these questions are only meant to find out where the problem lies - not apportion blame so please don't take them the wrong way !
Things you need to look at to solve the problem or eliminate the potential cause of the problem :
1) Upgrade to the latest version of LifeBlog if you aren't already using it - it can be found here - http://www.nokia.com/lifeblog - it may be possible that the problem you are having is a known issue which is solved in the latest release. At the very least I would recommend doing a complete uninstall of the old version and then rebooting, and installing the new version to ensure that you start from a clean configuration.
2) Has LifeBlog ever worked ? If so, then when did it stop working ? What did you do previous to when it stopped working ? Did you install a new PC/mobile application ?
3) Are you able to use the full capabilities of PC Suite successfully ? Can you backup the phone, synchronise data with Outlook or whatever compatible PIM you use ? The fact that you have done a software update etc. indicates you can connect successfully to the phone, but I thought I would put it here for completeness !
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5) Are you running any minimized software on your PC or phone whilst trying to do the PC Suite/LifeBlog update ? Disable any anti virus software JUST IN CASE FOR THIS TESTING ONLY. I once had an issue where I connected a camcorder via Firewire and I then couldn't surf the internet - this turned out to be a problem with the anti virus application I was using at the time - it only recognised one valid TCP/IP interface at a time - when the FireWire connection became active, it shut the interface to my network card down ! Also make sure any firewall software is temporarily disabled just in case as well.
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Hope this helps - let me know how you get on !
Regards,
Edward

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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFDDFF;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into an Automator 'Run AppleScript' action">
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output: a list of Finder items (aliases) created
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on error
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try
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set the end of the output to the result as alias
end try
end repeat
return output
end run
to GetUniqueName for SomeName from SomeFolder
check if SomeName exists in SomeFolder, creating a new unique name if needed
parameters - SomeName [text]: a name.extension to check for
SomeFolder [mixed]: a folder to check
returns [text]: a unique name
set {Counter, Divider} to {"00", "_"}
set Here to -(offset of "." in ((reverse of text items of SomeName) as text)) - 1
set TheName to text 1 thru Here of SomeName
if Here is -1 then -- no extension
set TheExtension to ""
else
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end if
set NewName to TheName & TheExtension
tell application "System Events" to tell (get name of items of folder (SomeFolder as text))
repeat while it contains NewName
set Counter to text 2 thru -1 of ((100 + Counter + 1) as text) -- leading zero
set NewName to TheName & Divider & Counter & TheExtension
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end tell
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When saving a File OS Is Creating Multiple Folders With The Same File Name

Not sure what I changed but, now when I save a any file (ppt. word, Keynote,Pages e.g.,) to the desktop or any other location the OS will also create multiple file folders with the same file name as the file I'm saving. Inside the folders are what appears to be files locating the saved files. What can I do to fix this problem?
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Misio wrote:
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BTW, I don't know why, but the file was saved only as "000" without the file extension ".jpg". Does anybody know why?
the extension is simply hidden. go to the get info panel for the file and uncheck the option to hide the extension.
Then I surf to another image, and again I save it as "000.jpg" and now it asks me if I want to replace the existing filename, although the existing one is "000" and I try to save as "000.jpg", so I say yes, and then magically the file is saved with the full filename including the extension "000.jpg"
When I did it a couple of times, always saving image as "000.jpg" from various sources, I ended up with two distinct files named "000" and both in the same folder Pictures.
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it sounds to me like you saved one file as 000.jpg and the other and 000.jpg.jpg.
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Hi everybody. I just would like to share with you the trick I have found to automatically clean the "Recent Folders" list in Finder's "Go" menu.
It costed me some work but eventually it worked.
I wanted it to run at shutdown. If it were executed at startup it would need an extra command (killall Finder) to work properly.
This is how I got it:
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cd /etc/
sudo nano rc.shutdown.local
insert your sudo password
into the nano editor write the following lines:
#!/bin/bash
cd /Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/
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chown YourUserName:YourGroup com.apple.finder.plist
Close (ctrl+x) and save (y and return)
And now some explanations.
the first instruction (#!/bin/bash) is just needed if you have an empty or not-existing rc.shutdown.localfile otherwise it should be just there.
YourUserName is obviously the name of your user whose Finder's preference file you want to edit.
YourGroup is the group your user belongs to. Usually it is 'staff'.
the chown is needed because all this commands are executed by the script as root. So the "defaults delete" command changes the ownership of the com.apple.finder.plist to root:wheel, resulting in the loss of your Finder's preferences at reboot.
For the same reason the "defaults" command specify the exact path to the domain to be edited (without the .plist part as usual).
The rc.shutdown.local does not need to be set as executable. It works as it is created by nano but please remember to reboot twice after any change in order to see the effects.
I hope it could be clear enough and somehow useful.
Please feel free to add comment, questions or improvement suggestion.
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