Re-importing Catalog produces non linkeable offline files

In LR1 LR2 it was possible to export "collections as catalogs". That file could then be taken to another machine and then the catalog the command "import from catalog..." could be used to import all metadata, adjustments, etc. One would then just need to have the original RAW files on a drive that is accessable on the importing Lightroom App. Files would come up with th "?" mark in the corner, one would click on it and you just find the original RAW in the appropriate place and you are good to go.
In LR 3 this is broken. I have tried this on 2 machines (latest OSX) and after the "import from catalog command" the "?" are not clickable. I have to right click and do a show in finder command. This then brings up the "file is missing or offline, do you want to locate it?". Of course I do. Well I find the RAW file, but nothing happens.
Anyone else having this happen?
Norbert

Has anyone else had this happen AND resolved this (on OSX)?
I reported as a bug.
This is major, because if you are using a laptop with Lightroom for tethering and you are making selects(labeling, staring) any adjustments, or collections on the laptop, when you get back to the studio you want to export the collection, and relink to the RAWS that have then been copied to your desktop computer (instead of the RAWS that resided on the laptop during a shoot) using the Lightroom that is on the desktop computer.

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Import Catalog vs. Find Missing Files

I had my primary image storage hard drive fail. I am switching to my full backup, however I have hundreds of folders containing 118,000+ files and want the best way to access them.
I can have the existing catalog Find Missing Files, and that preserves the History from teh Develop panel, but it seems that I can only find files within a subfolder, which means that I have to do that for every individual subfolder in the sack.
I can also Import Catalog, but my question is: Will that preserve the History from the Develop Panel or will it simply import the files, as edited, but without showing the step-by-step edits previosuly completed?
I imported a couple of individual subfolders (not the Import Catalog option) and the files came through with edits intact, but no History (History began with the new Import).
Any ideas? Finding Missing Files folder by folder is a potential time suck of epic proportion, but I want to preserve my work history.
Thanks,
David Feldman
LR5 on an iMac running 10.8.5

Thanks for the suggestions. But here's more details...
The Find Missing Folders so far (I will see if I am missing someting) has not worked from the parent directory. I will look again to see if I glossed over an important step.
As for the drive, it is a Drobo S 5-disk array. The disk experienced a bad sector reorganization, which was successful (all partitions readable and writeable). I prepared to swap out the newly-classified "bad" disk and install the new drive. My major blunder was to accept the Drobo firmware update because IMMEDIATELY after doing to upon reboot the Drobo now showed that ALL OF MY DRIVES WERE NOT INSTALLED, not just the one empty bay waiting for the newer, bigger backup drive.
Needless to say, I'm out of the 90-day "we'll help you" period, but they are trying to get a one-time papel dispensation to allow me to receive assistance via e-mail.
So, for now, I ain't doing squat to the Drobo array until they come up with a way to access my data. I would, however, like ot keep working, hence the need for a new catalog.

I bought Numbers because my Excel files would not work with Mavericks. How can I import a non-functioning Excel file into numbers? (As of now, the file NAME transfers but data is not.) but

I bought Numbers because my Excel files would not work with Mavericks. How can I import a non-functioning Excel file into numbers? (As of now, the file NAME transfers but data does not.)

HI Dave,
I'm surprised you get no message when you attempt opening the Excel document in Numbers.
I'm assuming Numbers 3.1, since you are running Mavericks.
Does the Numbers file that opens show any content?
Does it contain a table?
How large?
Does it contain more than one tab (indicating more than one sheet)?
Do those other tabs contain a table?
Have you checked those tables for data content?
There have been cases in the past of imported documents opening with white text on a white background, giving the appearance of containing nothing. Check for this by selecting a block of cells, then applying a Fill colour or a Text colour using the Format button (paintbrush).
I'd also suggest attempting to open the Excel files using LibreOffice, which can be downloaded from the linked website.
Regards,
Barry

How to delete all offline file references in a catalog?

I backed up and restored my entire photo archive to a new computer. I've never used offline files, but somehow I now have hundreds (if not thousands) of offline file icons, right next to the exact same file date and time, except the images are now named [filename]-1.jpg
I've tried the "reconnect files" and delete, but it tells me I have no files to reconnect.
I'd wipe and reinstall, but I have a sneaking suspicion those "offline files" are embedded into my last backup, and I'd just be doing all that work for nothing.
How can I go through and bulk-select and delete *all* references to offline files?
Thanks in advance.
- Bruce.

Hi John...
Thanks for the reply. I just have a couple of comments to make on results:
(1) HMBM is listed as being in a DVD drive , I know the disk, but that drive is currently empty.
(2) E: could certainly be one of my backup drives, but the file pathe (for 2004) seems to be off, as most of the missing / duplicate files are from 2007. (It currently is not attached.)
Thanks for looking ino this.
psedbtool version 1.07
Opening catalog C:\Users\Bruce\Pictures\My Catalog 1\catalog.pse7db
Photoshop Elements version:      7
Total files               : 24230
Total files missing       :    340
Total files offline       :   8489
Total files wrong volume :      0
PSE Volume Table
Path used by PSE        : [E:]
Type                    : removable_drive
Status                  : offline
Total files             : 8489
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : E:
Serial                  : E:/Photos/2004_10_26
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 89620
Path used by PSE        : C:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 15741
Total files missing     : 340
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : C:
Serial                  : 2C3B-D057
Drive_path_if_builtin   : C:
Id                      : 4009
Path used by PSE        : [USB-KEY]
Type                    : removable_drive
Status                  : offline
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : USB-KEY
Serial                  : 7614-7214
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 167027
Path used by PSE        : C:\Users\Bruce\Pictures\My Catalog 1
Type                    : database_relative_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : database relative
Serial                  : amoc:database_relative_volume
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 2
Path used by PSE        : [HMBM]
Type                    : readonly_drive
Status                  : offline
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : HMBM
Serial                  : 355B-10D5
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 3359
Windows Drives
Drive Type             Serial     Path
C:     builtin_drive    2C3B-D057
D:     readonly_drive   0000-0000
E:     removable_drive 0000-0000
F:     removable_drive 0000-0000
G:     removable_drive B6B2-7BCF
H:     builtin_drive    0200-6B71

Elements 6.0 Catalog updater finds previously existing files

I recently transferred all my files and programs from old computer running XP to new system with windows 7. Before that, when I would open Elements 6.0 it would occasionally "update" and find a few files that had been added to my watched folders and import them. Now, whenever that updater runs upon opening Elements, it takes forever and finds thousands of files and tries to import them. Once it goes through this very time consuming process it tells me that none of the files were imported becasue they already exist in the catalog. I know they already exist in the catalog. Why is is recognizing these files and trying to import them when they are already in the catalog? I have over 18,000 images in the catalog so this process takes forever. I did install the patch that supposedly made Elements 6 compatible with Windows 7. Everything else seems to be working fine except for this one glitch. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Thanks for the answer. I did back up Elements on the system running XP and I used back up and restore to the new Windows 7 system. It successfully kept all of my keyword tags, etc. Any other ideas what may have caused this, or more importantly how to stop it without eliminating watched folders? Now that I think about your anwser though I do think my file structure is messed up due to using "Windows Easy Transfer" to move the old files to the new system. It put a My Documents, My Pictures, My Music folder into the new file structure so instead of just having Users/Pictures... I have Users/My Pictures, etc. The libraries still work just fine but there is definitely a bit of a mess going on that I just don't know enough to get it all straightened out. I do see how this is causing the problem in my quesiton. Thanks for your input. John

Recover Deleted Offline File in Window's 7

Documents that were suppose to sync with the server had not synced in months. The filess I am sure were being saved to the offline file cache. The offline file cache was deleted by using microsoft hotfix 50561 (kb230738), reinitalizing the cache and correcting
the save path. The documents are very important. I researched and found the xp tool for recovering deleted offline files. csccmd.exe by using the command
csccmd.exe /extract /target:c:\docs /recurse
Is There a tool like this for windows 7? is there a way to recover the lost files. Previous versions and system restore was not enabled and I have not been able to enable then.

Hi ShaneC_76,
Thanks for the post!
Please refer to<cite>
</cite>Windows Offline Files.
Check the 10. Restoring Offline Files In Windows Vista and 7.
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Miya
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Can I import catalog photos from a usb drive?

I have imported photos from a catalog into a new catalog. Some of the photos in the catalog are located on a remote drive. The drive is not listed when I select the photos to be imported. Is it possible to import catalog photos from a usb drive?
Howie

Hi Keith,
"Import from another catalog" is a selection found in the Lightroom "File" drop down listing. Sorry I wasn't clear in my reguest. I have used this function to import photos in to my new Catalog from my old Catalog. During the import process, Lightroom creates a working catalog from which photos can be selected. A file list on the left side of the window displays the available hard drive folders. Once the photos to be extracted are selected the source folder is checked. The import button, on the bottom right of the window, is highlited to execute the import function. Since the external USB hard drive is not listed, the import function is not available.
My question: how do I enable the import from my USB drive? Perhaps I will have to move the files back onto my internal hard drive using my Lightroom's old catalog.
Howie

How can I import text produced in Pages into Adobe inDesign?

How can I import text produced in Pages into Adobe inDesign?

Menu > File > Export > Word .doc/x
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Offline Files sync gives Access Denied on Windows 8.1 Enterprise

A small number of our staff have now been issued with Windows 8.1 Enterprise hybrid tablet computers, however there is a problem with using Offline Files on them - when synchronising, it responds "Access Denied".
The tablets have Windows 8.1 Enterprise with all the latest updates on them. Staff users have a home folder on the network under \\server\staff\homes\departmentname\username which gets mapped to U: and their My Documents is redirected there. The server is currently
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2.
We have tried:
Resetting the Offline Files cache using the FormatDatabase registry key
Using Group Policy Objects to force Offline Files synchronisation at logon and logoff
Clearing the local cached copy of the user's profile from the machine and getting them to log back on to recreate it
Setting up Offline Files event logging to the event viewer - this provides no useful information as it only logs disconnect/reconnect and logoff/logon events
Forcing Group Policy update using gpupdate /force
Forcing synchronisation using PowerShell and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb309189%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
As suggested by http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275461 we gave the All Staff security group Read permissions on F:\Staff (which is the one that is shared as \\server\staff) and then blocked inheritance for folders below that
We also checked the following:
The CSC cache has not been relocated
No error 7023 or event 7023 errors relating to Offline Files are present in the event logs
The Offline Files service is running
The OS is already Windows 8.1 Enterprise, so installing the Pro Pack is not applicable
In HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UserState\UserStateTechnologies\ConfigurationControls all the values are set to 0 and not 1
We do not use System Center Configuration Manager
No errors were found in the Folder Redirection event logs
None of these solved the problem, does anyone have any suggestions?
Here is the error we are seeing:
Thanks,
Dan Jackson (Lead ITServices Technician)
Long Road Sixth Form College
Cambridge, UK

Hi,
Generally speaking, this problem is most probably occurs at File Server Client.
Firstly, please check the sharing file Sync Settings.
Shared file properties\Sharing\Advanced Sharing\Caching
Also check shared file user list, make sure these problematic user account have full permission.
On the other hand, could you able to access to the shared file directly in Windows Explorer?
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Yes, the user can access the shared folder in Windows Explorer. The user has the following permissions:
Traverse Folder/Execute File
List Folder/Read Data
Read Attributes
Read Extended Attributes
Create Files/Write Data
Create Folders/Append Data
Write Attributes
Write Extended Attributes
Delete
Read Permissions
Here is a screenshot of how the Caching settings are set up on the top-level Staff share.

How to Move Offline Files Cache in Windows 7?

I'm using the offline files feature in Win7 (much better implementation, btw - kudos!) and I've run into a problem: the CSC is using up all the drive space on C:\. I'd like to move the CSC to D:\, however I've been unable to do so.
I've seen this posted here previously (2/2009), however the response was to follow the instructions from Vista (using migwiz.exe). When I launch migwiz.exe, I have no option of selecting the offline files as outlined in the Vista instructions (http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/12/12/moving-the-offline-files-cache-in-windows-vista.aspx).
Are there any other ways of doing this?
Thanks!

Hi everyone,
I have found a way to move the offline cache in W7, but it means you have to reset your existing offline files, give the new location, and resync the folders in the new location.
Here is what to do (if you haven't synchronised any offline files yet, for exemple after a clean install, you can start directly in step 3):
0) Make sure your existing offline files are synchronised with the server, as you are going to lose ALL the offline copies and you don't want to lose any new/modified files. Make a backup if you're not sure and if the files are important.
1) reset the content of the old cache by adding the following command in a batch file and running it (of course you can add the parameter in the registry manually, but it's quite handy to have the batch ready whenever you need to reset the cache):
REG ADD "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters" /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
2) Reboot, the added key will be detected, all the content of the cache will be deleted, as well as the key itself (it only resets once)
3) Add the following registry key in the same HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters section of the registry:
Type: REG SZ (string)
Name: CacheLocation
Value: the new location in NT format, ie \??\d:\csc if you want to create the new cache in d:\csc
4) Create the folder in the new location
5) Reboot (not sure if it's necessary, but better safe than sorry)
6) Reselect the files/folders you want to sync offline, and they should sync in the new location.
7) If you want to, you can delete the old cache location in c:\windows\csc by following the end of the vista procedure linked in the first post (using takeown etc)
It worked for me (Win7 RTM x86), let us know if it works for you...
Obviously it won't help if you don't want to / can't resynchronise, but if you're starting from scratch or don't mind resyncing from scratch, it's a good workaround.
EDIT: if you sync a lot of files and get a lot of errors, try to reset your offline files again following the above procedure (steps 1-2), disable offline files, reboot, enable offline files, reboot, and resync your files. Again, it worked for me...

OS X support for offline files

Dear all,
I have a mixed environment of workstations running both OS X and Windows that connect to file shares hosted on Windows file servers. In order to be able to manage the storage space effectively, tape based archiving was implemented using Symantec's Enterprise Vault for File System Archiving. EV and many other archiving solutions use the Windows Offline file attribute to mark a file that has been archived off and install a filter driver into Windows so that archived files can be recalled directly from Windows Explorer without requiring additional software (this is also known as a reparse point). Please note that this is different from how Microsoft intended offline files to be used for synchronising between a roaming laptop and a network share (see KB 312717).
OS X does not have any support for offline files natively, both for how Microsoft intended it to be used and for use with archiving software as a reparse point. There are a couple of offerings on the market which add the required functionality to OS X, but recent updates to OS X have rendered these offerings non-functional:
10.6.7 - I understand that Apple replaced the SMB/CIFS modules with their own code. At this point, it no longer became possible to recall archived files using said software offerings, when connecting to a Windows file server via SMB. See Apple bug ID 10836961.
10.7.4 - a kernel update is included which means said software offerings are now not able to block the icon preview in Finder. The icon preview in Finder causes archived material to be recalled which we do not want it to do (imagine the problem when using tape as the archiving platform - this will cause a huge recall job on the tape drives)
This is going to cause significant difficulties as it effectively means that we can't use archiving with OS X to manage our storage costs.
I'm writing this as I'm hoping that someone will know of a product or solution that is able to work around the 2 difficulties noted above, or that someone from Apple is going to read this and realise that this is a serious problem. The ideal that is required is to add support for the offline files, in particular reparse points, directly into OS X.
Many thanks.
A frustrated storage engineer.

Hi Richard,
We are looking at file archiving here and have the same potential issues. We haven't evaluated this product, but it claims to solve the problem:
http://www.grouplogic.com/enterprise-file-sharing/mac-file-archiving-system/
Good luck
Mark

Problem with IMPORT CATALOG

I have a question concerning the move of one recovery catalog from one server to another using the IMPORT CATALOG command.
We have three Windows 2008 severs on which we are running Oracle 11.1.0.7.0. On server A we have nine Oracle instances that we backup with RMAN using a recovery catalog (rcat1) at server B. Now we have installed a new server, C to which we would like to move rcat1. We created a new instance, rcat2, on server C and did the following:
rman catalog rman2/xxx@rman2
RMAN> create catalog;
RMAN> import catalog rman1/xxx@rman1;
We get the following error message (sorry but some of the text is in Swedish):
Starting import catalog at 2010-10-15
connected to source recovery catalog database
import validation complete
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of import catalog command at 10/15/2010 10:13:01
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: ORA-02085: databaslänken DBLINK_ENO3LA.RMAN är ansluten till RCAT1.WORLD
It complains about some database links (can be different links, always concerning rcat1.world), but there are no database links in rcat1, rcat2 or any of the source databases on server A.
All the databases are in the tnsnames.ora file on all servers, and we have tried to perform the command from all three servers, but we get the same error and are now running out on ideas… Has anyone had the same problem?
Would it work to create a new database on server C with the same structure and name as the one on server B and just copy all the files from rcat1 on server B to the new rcat1 on server C? Or, is RMAN somehow aware of the servername/ip-address of the server of the recovery catalog?
Thanks in advance!
Helen

Hi Helen,
Your ORA-:
ORA-02085: databaslänken DBLINK_ENO3LA.RMAN är ansluten till RCAT1.WORLDhas the following explanation.
ORA-02085:
database link string connects to string
Cause: a database link connected to a database with a different name. The connection is rejected.
Action: create a database link with the same name as the database it connects to, or set global_names=false.
but there are no database links in rcat1, rcat2 or any of the source databases on server A.Probaly the link is dynamicly created due to the < import catalog > command.
Set global_names to false on rcat1 & rcat2 and retry.
Regards,
Tycho

File server migration with Offline files involved

Hi,
We are planning a file server migration in following weeks.
This morning, our customer came with the good old "Ow, and I just thought about something else"
Here's the scenario :
-They are using 1 network drive
-That network drive is made offline available for all laptop users
-Those users are spread out in several country's. No VPN connection
-They are working for months on their offline network drive, right in the middle of the wood, no internet connection, it was already short for them to find power supply for their laptop ...
...nevermind
-The day they come back to the office, the file server to which points the network drives will be offline.
Now the 1 Million question : What happens with their "dirty" files ?
yep exactly. those they changed 6 months ago, have no clue about if you ask them but certainly will the day I will clear the damn cache.
My first analysis :
-The new file server will have another name, no alias or re-using the old name is possible (the customer don't want to)
-I can't tell to those laptops "hey for that offline cache, please use this new network drive"
So :
>> Those users have to identify manually files they changed while being offline, copy them locally on their machine and work that way the time they come back to the main office.
>> When they finally show up, clear the cache, offline the new network drive and replace file copied locally
>> If no internet connexion available in the branch office, let them work locally, it's still better than this hybrid-non-sense 6month offline folder "solution". If internet connexion is mainly available remotely, propose some Citrix/View/RDS
Setup which is, for me, a more professional looking solution
Someone has another (better?) idea/solution ?

Hi,
I suggest you ask users to collect their laptop to internet, then start offline files synchronization on the old file server. After that, use
Robocopy to copy the date from the old server to the new server. As the offline files cache cannot be recognized by the new file server, so we need to synchronize data first.
If the older server cannot be enabled, as you mentioned, you might need to ask users to copy their changed files to the new file servers.
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Can't Import Catalog - Unknown Error

Is this still a known bug without a solution?
I have LR3 on a MacBook Pro Snow Leopard and on a PC Desktiop Win XP Pro SP3. I exported a catalog from the laptop to an external hard drive and then attempted to import it to the desktop and kept getting the dreaded Can't Import Catalog - Unknown Error message.
I don't have an issue with LR Beta because i didn't use it; I just upgraded v2.6 installations on both machines to LR3.
I like LR3 but I've got to be able to get the image files and the LR work I've done on them from my laptop to my desktop and an Unknown Error is not what I need. Am I going to have to wait for the first dot release to be able to do this?
--Bob

Well, I just got off the phone with Adobe Technical Support and I am extremely frustrated
Support: Since you are working cross-platform (from a Mac laptop via an external hard drive and then to a Win XP desktop) we can only say that sometimes it will work and sometimes it will not.
Me: Huh? It worked perfectly in LR 2.6.
Support: I am sorry. That is all I can tell you.
Me: That really ruins my month. I've got thousands of edited images on my laptop from a 3 week trip to SE Asia and now I can't move the catalog to my desktop? Give me a break!!
Support: You can copy the image files to your desktop.
Me: Without the accompanying adjustments?
Support: Yes. Sorry.
Me: Me too.
Anyone have a better idea? I've filed a bug report.....
--Bob

How to recover DB2 using offline file system backup.

Gurus,
I had a problem with my BI PRD's database. 1 of my BI consultant accidently deleted some important 2010's data. We've try recover online database backup of BWP into BWQ and retrieve the missing data. However the backup retention period was expired and we dont have any available online backup now.
Only hope is my offline file system backup which backup the whole file system of BWP ONLY.
My question:-
Can i restore the file system (offline backup) into BWQ and rebuild my DB2 in BWQ. Please enlighten me.
Thanks,
Devan.

Hi
You can do it .The file system backup image can be mirroed into production system and by making using of "db2inidb" utility you can restore the whole database.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v8/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/core/r0004473.htm
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