Orphaned files on atv

hi
just noticed i have old video podcasts appearing on my apple tv which are unplayable and are not present in my itunes library or anywhere on my mac.
how do i remove these orphaned files to stop them appearing on my atv
ps its not a syncing issue these files are not available to sync.
thanks
chris

I believe I can solve this
Orphaned podcasts plagued me for bit until I found out how to fix it.
What is happening is that for some reason the actual podcast media file has been deleted, but it is still listed in your iTunes library (even if it doesn't look like it, believe me the problem is with the iTunes *library file*).
How to fix if you can't see the podcast listed in iTunes?
Simples. Create a Smart Playlist that looks for media is Podcast.
If you are having the same exact issue I had, then you will see the troublesome podcasts listed in this smart playlist even if they were not listed elsewhere in the library)
Now, to delete them, you must either hold down the option key (alt) and right click and select Delete or hold down the option key and hit backspace to delete the entry. You'll be asked if you want to delete the file from your library (say Yes) and also if you want to move the file to the trash (yes) again, even though there's no file to move).
re-sync Apple TV. Bingo.

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http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
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Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
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Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
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Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

How do I get rid of 'orphaned' files

Hi,
What is a good software (free preferably) to use in order to get rid of 'orphaned' files I seem to have migrated over from my old iMac? For example, I have Virtual PC, Print Explosion, Otto game, etc. in there as well as many other orphaned files/folders like this that I won't be using on my Macbook Pro. Is there a software that will detect these so I can SAFELY get rid of all these unnecessary files? Please advise.

This isn't an endorsement since I haven't used it.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21471/superpop
Also get EasyFind and search manually (excellent, I have used it.)
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/index.html

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Hi,
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Is this normal because of the anchor links part of the link?
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Developing and maintaining hundreds of web pages for a web site can be a hassle (I know - preaching to the choir.)
DW has a nice feature for identifying and locating unused (orphan) files,
however,
Page designs evolve over time.
Hard to keep track of all pages that call for a style that is no longer defined or have a style definition that is no longer used.
Sure would be nice to be able to
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Created a new style in a style sheet.
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Firefox Add-on link -
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SitePoint link -
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Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
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Can't delete orphaned files

If know how this works and it should be simple. I ran Check Links Sitewide. I highlighted Orphaned Files under the Link Checker tab. There are a lot of them--over 6,000. I want to delete these files. I select all of them and press the Delete button, nothing happens. I select a few and try the same thing. I try it with both delete buttons and with cmd-delete (which works in Mac Finder). I even try checking to see if there is a delete option under the right mouse button. Still nothing. (unless somehow these files are being deleted invisibly but still show up on the list? Shouldn't the filename disappear from the list when they are deleted?) I checked my keyboard and the delete button is working. Any ideas what is happening? Any other method I can use to delete these files?

I suggest recreating your cache.
You will find it in the menus at the top.
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Orphaned files - broken links - URGENT

Hi everyone
I am currently going through and deleting 675 orphaned files
and files that are old although if they create a broken link after
deletion this will not show when I re run the link checker even
though I know they are. Does anyone know why this is? I can't keep
deleting things if it is going to create a broken link within the
site. Also, is there any way of finding out where an individual
document is located on the site if at all?
Second issue is that orphaned files that I have deleted in
both the local site and remote site are still coming up when I do
the link check. Why is this so and how can I get them removed from
the orphaned files list?
Please help
Merry

many of the people offering answers use the NNTP newsgroup
reader version.
the webforum has been flaky lately i think.
Here's my reply from a while ago-
after deleting files- recreate the site cache.
It's under the site menu on older versions, under
site-->advanced on newer.
dw's link checker checks html links, and links in "behaviors"
that it
understands.
it will not check links in most javascript.
What's an example of a broken link that dw didn't warn of
when deleting the
reported orphan? �url address to the page??
and here are links to a google archive of the newsgroup.
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver/search?group=macromedi
a.dreamweaver&q=Orphaned+files+-+broken+links+-+URGENT&qt_g=1&searchnow=Sear
ch+this+group
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver/browse_frm/thread/3b1c
2e1950cbb577/9ed3b0a716f876c5?lnk=gst&q=Orphaned+files+-+broken+links+-+URGE
NT&rnum=1#9ed3b0a716f876c5
> Hi Murray
>
> It's just that it says there are 9 posts regarding my
original question
> although when I open it up they don't show.
>
> Merry :)

Removed orphaned files...

Hi there!
Yesterday I had another system crash and was forced to shutdown my PowerBook. I restarted, logged in as Admin, checked the permissions and my user sparseimage. After that I rebooted with the Tiger-CD to check the harddrive itself.
After all, some permissions need to be fixed, but everything else seemed to be fine.
In the system.log I found a line, which told me that 16 orphaned files were removed. That was after the first reboot after the crash.
Is there a possibility to find out what files that were?
Months ago I had a similar problem. No errors were found at all, but a preference file was corrupt (or missing). So I discovered this error only because the application looks "different".
I know that a system crash is always bad for a filesystem, but it is possible to find out which files are corrupt? I read about a lost+found folder, but it's not in my root directory.
Another more general question: Did I something wrong (I mean AFTER the crash)? I also have Disk Warrior. Is this program better for a filesystem check?
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Hi, Martin.
A close reading of Fsck - The UNIX® File System Check Program, which is available online in HTML and PDF formats, would indicate there are situations in which orphaned files will be removed without the creation of the lost+found directory. In some cases, the problem is simply corrected without a need to then add an alias to the files in the lost+found directory.
Orphaned files are not necessarily corrupted files, but rather files which have been "orphaned" with respect to the drive's directory, i.e. disconnected from the directory in some fashion. Granted, an orphaned file is also often corrupted, especially if it is a fragmented file (one that could not be written to contiguous space) and all its fragments could not be found. However, Orphaned status does not necessarily imply "corrupted."
If the actions on the files in question were not noted in the log, and since there's no lost+found folder, there's no way to know.
Finding corrupted files is the proverbial "needle in a haystack" quest. However, the techniques in my "Finding corrupted files" FAQ can help.
IMO, Alsoft DiskWarrior is the tool-of-choice for repairing hard drives when Disk Utility cannot correct the directory corruption. At present, it can only be used with PowerPC-based Macs: a version for Intel-based Macs is pending.
Intel-based Mac users can employ the following third-party tools for directory repair until a Universal version of DiskWarrior is available:
• Micromat TechTool Pro v4.5.1 or later.
• The Universal version of Prosoft Engineering Drive Genius.
It doesn't sound like you did anything incorrectly. You may want to review my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ for a recommended procedure and related information.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
Note: The information provided in the link(s) above is freely available. However, because I own The X Lab™, a commercial Web site to which some of these links point, the Apple Discussions Terms of Use require I include the following disclosure statement with this post:
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

Orphaned files removed?

Greetings,
I often see some messages like this one in the Console:
kernel[0]: HFS: Removed 2 orphaned unlinked files
An orphaned file usually means that the disk was corrupted, and since this concerns my startup disk (the only one attached at these times), I'm starting to think I'm losing several files.
Is there a log where I can know which files are concerned (assuming the name can still be read in the partition map)?

Hi again, I think it best to insure you DO NOT have any corruption.
At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

Customize orphan file report?

Using DW CS6 (Windows 7 if that makes a difference) can we customize a broken link/orphan file report in any way? I've been searching around for this for a while and haven't found anything so I'm assuming no but...
The problem:
We use Adobe Contribute with rollbacks enabled so it will create file strings that contain "_bak" when a page is published to our development server. When generating a report looking for orphan files, I have to weed through thousands (around 10,000 lines in an Excel file) of these false orphans to end up with a list of real orphans. Is there a way to search the site and ignore any files/folders with _bak in the string?
Thanks!

Thanks both of you. I guess I'd better brush up on my Excel skills.
And I agree Nancy. I never use or trust it to find broken links. I'm strictly using it to locate orphan files that our users neglected to delete from the site. I've used Xenu in the past but found another tool called Deep Trawl that I've been using. Not that it's any better really. I just like the interface a little more.
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