Remote File Not Deleted

During any "Put" operation I am
usually getting a failure for some or all the files I am
trying to upload.
When this happens the progress bar zips through, regenerates
and then progresses very slowly on the same file. The log records
the error "
The file "documentname.html" was skipped because the old remote
file could not be deleted".
Often I can immediately try again and it works. Sometimes I
have to retry several times.
This started suddenly (no system changes that I am aware of)
during the fall (2007). It's happening on ftp accounts for several
hosting providers so the common element seems to be DW CS3.
Any thoughts, folks?

I have had these issues before they just solved themselves
eventually. Why this happends? I have no idea.
Try another FTP program or use the hosting services Control
Panel to remove the file. Or ask hosting service to do it.
Shane

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Empty Log files not deleted by Cleaner

Hi,
we have a NoSql database installed on 3 nodes with a replication factor of 3 (see exact topology below).
We run a test which consisted in the following operations repeated in a loop : store a LOB, read it , delete it.
store.putLOB(key, new ByteArrayInputStream(source),Durability.COMMIT_SYNC, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
store.getLOB(key,Consistency.NONE_REQUIRED, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
store.deleteLOB(key, Durability.COMMIT_SYNC, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
During the test the space occupied by the database continues to grow !!
Cleaner threads are running but logs these warnings:
2015-02-03 14:32:58.936 UTC WARNING [rg3-rn2] JE: Replication prevents deletion of 12 files by Cleaner. Start file=0x0 holds CBVLSN 1, end file=0xe holds last VLSN 24,393
2015-02-03 14:32:58.937 UTC WARNING [rg3-rn2] JE: Cleaner has 12 files not deleted because they are protected by replication.
2015-02-03 14:32:58.920 UTC WARNING [rg3-rn1] JE: Replication prevents deletion of 12 files by Cleaner. Start file=0x0 holds CBVLSN 1, end file=0xe holds last VLSN 24,393
2015-02-03 14:32:58.921 UTC WARNING [rg3-rn1] JE: Cleaner has 12 files not deleted because they are protected by replication.
2015-02-03 14:32:58.908 UTC WARNING [rg3-rn3] JE: Replication prevents deletion of 12 files by Cleaner. Start file=0x0 holds CBVLSN 1, end file=0xe holds last VLSN 24,393
2015-02-03 14:32:58.909 UTC WARNING [rg3-rn3] JE: Cleaner has 12 files not deleted because they are protected by replication.
2015-02-03 14:33:31.704 UTC INFO [rg3-rn2] JE: Chose lowest utilized file for cleaning. fileChosen: 0xc (adjustment disabled) totalUtilization: 1 bestFileUtilization: 0 isProbe: false
2015-02-03 14:33:32.137 UTC INFO [rg3-rn2] JE: CleanerRun 13 ends on file 0xc probe=false invokedFromDaemon=true finished=true fileDeleted=false nEntriesRead=1129 nINsObsolete=64 nINsCleaned=2 nINsDead=0 nINsMigrated=2 nBINDeltasObsolete=2 nBINDeltasCleaned=0 nBINDeltasDead=0 nBINDeltasMigrated=0 nLNsObsolete=971 nLNsCleaned=88 nLNsDead=0 nLNsMigrated=88 nLNsMarked=0 nLNQueueHits=73 nLNsLocked=0 logSummary=<CleanerLogSummary endFileNumAtLastAdjustment="0xe" initialAdjustments="5" recentLNSizesAndCounts=""> inSummary=<INSummary totalINCount="68" totalINSize="7570" totalBINDeltaCount="2" totalBINDeltaSize="254" obsoleteINCount="66" obsoleteINSize="7029" obsoleteBINDeltaCount="2" obsoleteBINDeltaSize="254"/> estFileSummary=<summary totalCount="2072" totalSize="13069531" totalINCount="68" totalINSize="7570" totalLNCount="1059" totalLNSize="13024352" maxLNSize="102482" obsoleteINCount="66" obsoleteLNCount="971" obsoleteLNSize="12974449" obsoleteLNSizeCounted="971" getObsoleteSize="13019405" getObsoleteINSize="7347" getObsoleteLNSize="12974449" getMaxObsoleteSize="13019405" getMaxObsoleteLNSize="12974449" getAvgObsoleteLNSizeNotCounted="NaN"/> recalcFileSummary=<summary totalCount="2072" totalSize="13069531" totalINCount="68" totalINSize="7570" totalLNCount="1059" totalLNSize="13024352" maxLNSize="0" obsoleteINCount="66" obsoleteLNCount="971" obsoleteLNSize="12974449" obsoleteLNSizeCounted="971" getObsoleteSize="13019405" getObsoleteINSize="7347" getObsoleteLNSize="12974449" getMaxObsoleteSize="13019405" getMaxObsoleteLNSize="12974449" getAvgObsoleteLNSizeNotCounted="NaN"/> lnSizeCorrection=NaN newLnSizeCorrection=NaN estimatedUtilization=0 correctedUtilization=0 recalcUtilization=0 correctionRejected=false
Log files are not delete even if empty as seen using DBSpace utility:
Space -h /mam2g/data/sn1/u01/rg2-rn1/env/ib/kvstore.jar com.sleepycat.je.util.Db
File    Size (KB) % Used
00000000      12743       0
00000001      12785       0
00000002      12725       0
00000003      12719       0
00000004      12703       0
00000005      12751       0
00000006      12795       0
00000007      12725       0
00000008      12752       0
00000009      12720       0
0000000a      12723       0
0000000b      12764       0
0000000c      12715       0
0000000d      12799       0
0000000e      12724       1
0000000f       5717       0
TOTALS      196867       0
Here is the configured topology:
kv-> show topology
store=MMS-KVstore numPartitions=90 sequence=106
zn: id=zn1 name=MAMHA repFactor=3 type=PRIMARY
sn=[sn1] zn:[id=zn1 name=MAMHA] 192.168.144.11:5000 capacity=3 RUNNING
    [rg1-rn1] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=4.414467 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
    [rg2-rn1] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=1.5962526 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
    [rg3-rn1] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=1.3068943 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
sn=[sn2] zn:[id=zn1 name=MAMHA] 192.168.144.12:6000 capacity=3 RUNNING
    [rg1-rn2] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=1.5670061 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
    [rg2-rn2] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=8.637241 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
    [rg3-rn2] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=1.370075 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
sn=[sn3] zn:[id=zn1 name=MAMHA] 192.168.144.35:7000 capacity=3 RUNNING
    [rg1-rn3] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=1.4707285 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
    [rg2-rn3] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=1.5334034 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
    [rg3-rn3] RUNNING
             single-op avg latency=9.05199 ms   multi-op avg latency=0.0 ms
shard=[rg1] num partitions=30
    [rg1-rn1] sn=sn1
    [rg1-rn2] sn=sn2
    [rg1-rn3] sn=sn3
shard=[rg2] num partitions=30
    [rg2-rn1] sn=sn1
    [rg2-rn2] sn=sn2
    [rg2-rn3] sn=sn3
shard=[rg3] num partitions=30
    [rg3-rn1] sn=sn1
    [rg3-rn2] sn=sn2
    [rg3-rn3] sn=sn3
Why empty files are not delete by cleaner? Why empty log files are protected by replicas if all the replicas seam to be aligned with the master ?
java -jar /mam2g/kv-3.2.5/lib/kvstore.jar ping -host 192.168.144.11 -port 5000
Pinging components of store MMS-KVstore based upon topology sequence #106
Time: 2015-02-03 13:44:57 UTC
MMS-KVstore comprises 90 partitions and 3 Storage Nodes
Storage Node [sn1] on 192.168.144.11:5000    Zone: [name=MAMHA id=zn1 type=PRIMARY]    Status: RUNNING   Ver: 12cR1.3.2.5 2014-12-05 01:47:33 UTC Build id: 7ab4544136f5
        Rep Node [rg1-rn1]      Status: RUNNING,MASTER at sequence number: 24,413 haPort: 5011
        Rep Node [rg2-rn1]      Status: RUNNING,REPLICA at sequence number: 13,277 haPort: 5012
        Rep Node [rg3-rn1]      Status: RUNNING,REPLICA at sequence number: 12,829 haPort: 5013
Storage Node [sn2] on 192.168.144.12:6000    Zone: [name=MAMHA id=zn1 type=PRIMARY]    Status: RUNNING   Ver: 12cR1.3.2.5 2014-12-05 01:47:33 UTC Build id: 7ab4544136f5
        Rep Node [rg3-rn2]      Status: RUNNING,REPLICA at sequence number: 12,829 haPort: 6013
        Rep Node [rg2-rn2]      Status: RUNNING,MASTER at sequence number: 13,277 haPort: 6012
        Rep Node [rg1-rn2]      Status: RUNNING,REPLICA at sequence number: 24,413 haPort: 6011
Storage Node [sn3] on 192.168.144.35:7000    Zone: [name=MAMHA id=zn1 type=PRIMARY]    Status: RUNNING   Ver: 12cR1.3.2.5 2014-12-05 01:47:33 UTC Build id: 7ab4544136f5
        Rep Node [rg1-rn3]      Status: RUNNING,REPLICA at sequence number: 24,413 haPort: 7011
        Rep Node [rg2-rn3]      Status: RUNNING,REPLICA at sequence number: 13,277 haPort: 7012
        Rep Node [rg3-rn3]      Status: RUNNING,MASTER at sequence number: 12,829 haPort: 7013

Solved setting a non documented parameter " je.rep.minRetainedVLSNs"
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Project Files Not Deleted From Server

Thank you in advance if you can help.
Application: Robohelp6/Server6 and earlier versions. Don't
know about 7 or 8.
Output: Webhelp Pro
Background: Whenever I delete a topic from the publisher and
publisher a project to our server, the htm file for that topic is
not deleted. I started calling them "ghost" files because they
should be dead and gone. Some users access these files following a
direct URL hence providing them with outdated information. They
don't normally appear in the application search results but
hyperlinks to them work until the file is removed.
I've tried different publishing options to get them removed.
Check for delete files and republish entire project. The only way I
found to get rid of them is to delete the file from the server
manually. Another option is to delete the project from the server
and republish everything.
Question: Can anyone explain what is going on and if there is
something I can to make sure they are automatically deleted when
publishing.

Welcome to our community, David
I don't believe anything in RoboHelp publishing will actually
ever delete files. It's my experience that any file that needs to
be removed from the server has to be accomplished manually.
So I know this calls into question what exactly does the
option "Check for deleted files" actually DO?" Am I right?
Here's the deal. Upon publishing, a list is created. The
first round takes longest as it is also creating the list. When you
publish again, files are compared to the list.
Need updating? Nope. Skip it and move on.
Need updating? Yes. Copy and replace the file.
The option to check for deleted files slows the process. The
process then becomes:
Need updating? Nope. Does it still exist on server? Yes. Skip
it and move on.
Need updating? Yes. Copy and replace the file.
Need updating? Nope. Does it still exist on server? Nope.
Copy the file and move on.
Hopefully that helps you better understand what is happening.
Cheers... Rick

Files not deleted on windows in MappedBufferManager

We are seeing a problem where the nio file-based scheme does not delete the mapped temporary files once they are inactive. This is related to the link below; however, this is not just a problem when the process exits.
Re: nio file manager does not clean up page files on Windows
Given this caching scheme:
<caching-schemes>
     <paged-external-scheme>
     <scheme-name>nio-scheme</scheme-name>
<page-limit>5</page-limit>
          <nio-file-manager>
               <initial-size>8m</initial-size>
               <maximum-size>64m</maximum-size>
<directory>c:/temp/nio/</directory>
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     <page-duration>10s</page-duration>
<high-units>20000</high-units>
     <expiry-delay>20h</expiry-delay>
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</caching-schemes>
The old files are not deleted once we cross the page limit boundary. So the directory will grow indefinitely large as the old files are not removed. We get this error:
MappedBufferManager: failed to remove <path to file>
Note, I added a note to the original posting, but was not sure if it was received since that post was so old. Lastly, this problem appears to be windows-only since the code works as expected on a linux distro using a sun jdk.
We are using JDK 5.0 (build 1.5.0_15-b04) and Coherence 3.2.
/thanks -warren

I had similar problems. I could always mount the directory but couldn't see any of the files. I finally tracked the problem down to the user name I was using to login from the Mac being in a different XP security group than I had assumed. Once I changed the group membership, it worked as it should.
The solution took awhile to find because my XP laptop is also used on my work LAN and therefore uses "professional" sharing not "simple" sharing. Professional sharing is much more complicated to troubleshoot. You have professional sharing on your XP machine if you see a "permissions" button on the share tab when you click properties on the file/directory.
Here a two good links that might help.
If you have professional sharing:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm
If you have simple sharing:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm
Good luck. My apologies if this is too basic for you but I've been working with computers since the early 1970's and still find networking a pain to configure.

Remote Files not showing in files window

DW 8.0.2, WinXP, Ubuntu Linux server, FTP
All was working fine for the past few months and earlier
today. Now, I can connect via FTP to my Ubuntu web server but the
remote files are not showing up and thus synchronization is not
working (I can PUT, but not GET). Everything shows up fine in
Filezilla. DW FTP log shows activity, including listing the
folders, but still nothing shows in the remote view. AFAIK, nothing
on the server changed (I asked) and this happened while working in
DW...one minute all is fine, the next it was not working.
Because sync stopped working (it wants to upload ALL files
ALL the time because it does not see Remote files) I tried the
troubleshooting thing of disabling sync, exiting, restarting,
enabling sync, attempting a sync, etc, but now the xml file (in
_notes folder) will not come back. What ths heck is going on?!?
So far I've tried:
- Exit and restart DW
- Reboot PC
- Restart FTP service (though I doubt that's the problem
since it works fine with Filezilla)
- The troublshooting for sync issues
- Re-install 8.0.2 update (can't reinstall all of DW right
now because the disks are at home)
- Creating a new site
- Mucking with the FTP settings (currently using passive FTP
with sync turned on...all other setting are the usual)
I plan to try a reinstall of DW tonight. Any help is
appreciated!

Wow...not a single response. Anyway, problem solved. Turns
out a server restart restored the remote view. This was after an
FTP service restart did not fix it. Weird in any case because
"regular" FTP worked fine, just not in Dreamweaver.

Files not deleting on Western Digital My Book Mac

Hello,
I recently deleted some time machine backups on my western digital my book mac. Unfortunately these files was not been deleted from the drive (the remaining disk space has not gone up circa 300GB). I have looked online and the issues seems to be the afp connection rather than using the smb connection.
I have reconnected using this type, but I am still unable to see the files to delete. I have tried to connect using terminal, but to be honest I have no idea what I am doing. The file path is smb://WubberTimeCapsule.smb.tcp.local/My%20Book...
Has anybody else seem this problem also, does anybody know of a way of deleting these files?

leedern wrote:
Thanks, it is an external hdd (Western Digital My Book Mac) connected to my old time machine (too small to fit everything on way) via the usb cable. The time machine is connected wirelessly to my network. Unfortunately I can not see the sparse bundle files anymore.
Just for the sake of clarification, that's a +Time Capsule,+ Apple hardware combining a wireless router and hard drive. +Time Machine+ is the Apple software that does backups, to various destinations, including +Time Capsules.+
This originated because I originally created the time machine backup with the external hdd connected directly to the mac. When I transferred the disk to the old time machine, it did not reuse the previous backup but created a new one. Hence in my ignorance I deleted the old files.
Ah, yes, that's a different critter. Time Machine stores backups differently when they're done directly vs. over a network. The backups done directly were stored in a Backups.backupdb folder at the top level of the drive; the ones done over your network have that folder placed inside an odd container called a +sparse bundle.+ You cannot switch back and forth.
Which ones did you delete, and how?
It sounds like you deleted the Backups.backupdb folder, and didn't empty the trash, so they're still in the (hidden) trash folder on that drive. If so, disconnect it from your TC via +Airport Utility > Disks,+ connect it to your Mac, and empty the trash. That will take a very long time, as there are at least a few hundred thousand files there, perhaps many more.
A quick alternative would be to simply erase the drive, via Disk Utility, while it's connected to your Mac. That will erase all the new and old backups. If you just started the new set, that might be easiest.
If you decide to do that, see the green box in #Q2 of [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Capsule+ forum), for a way to speed up the first full backup.

NSS Delay Purge for deleted files not deleted volumes

Does anyone know how to set the "Delay Purge" for deleted files on an
NSS volume, not, deleted volumes. I have a problem in our company, they
want to use the automatic purge feature for deleted files but, they
want to set a "Delay" on the purging. I know you can set the Delay
Purge for deleted volumes, but I can't find a setting (if it even
exist) for Delay Purge for deleted files. Can anyone help. Thank you.
BTY, there're running NW 6.0 NSS 3.05.

I use toolbox and cron to rune a manual purge pass on the server once a
week.
A line in crontab:
00 02 * * 0 purge sys: -a -d=35
will purge volume sys every sunday at 2:00 and purge all files deleted 35
and more days before.
Klaus
"Montero" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] ups.com...
> Thanks for your input Massino, I guess I should refrase the question:
> Does anyone know HOW to delay the purging of deleted files on an NSS
> volume? If i'm going about it the wrong way, can you tell me how it can
> be done? Thank you.
>
> Sam
>
> Massimo Rosen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how to set the "Delay Purge" for deleted files on an
>> > NSS volume,
>>
>> Such a thing doesn't exist.
>>
>> CU,
>> --
>> Massimo Rosen
>> Novell Support Connection Sysop
>> No emails please!
>> http://www.cfc-it.de
>

Remote files not loading

I use Dreamweaver (8.0.2) which I have been using for several
years without incident. Now, I am unable to see my remote files.
When I click on the icon that connects to the remote host (or when
I right click "Put" the file to upload to the remote server), the
background file activity bar appears with the message "Retrieving
remote folder for <site>" It takes longer than usual, about
20 seconds longer. When it finishes, "File activity complete," the
directory (folder) of the site contents appear in the remote site
window, but when I click on it to view the site files, nothing
happens.
Now I am unable to update or see my files on the remote
server via DW.
I manage about 8 files via DW and the same thing happens with
all of them. I have not changed the FTP configuration settings for
any of them.
Do you know what is going on and how do I fix this problem?
Amy

Are you sure you are connecting to the proper folder level on
the remote
host site?
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"sitedeveloper" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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>I use Dreamweaver (8.0.2) which I have been using for
several years without
> incident. Now, I am unable to see my remote files. When
I click on the
> icon
> that connects to the remote host (or when I right click
"Put" the file to
> upload to the remote server), the background file
activity bar appears
> with the
> message "Retrieving remote folder for <site>" It
takes longer than usual,
> about 20 seconds longer. When it finishes, "File
activity complete," the
> directory (folder) of the site contents appear in the
remote site window,
> but
> when I click on it to view the site files, nothing
happens.
>
> Now I am unable to update or see my files on the remote
server via DW.
>
> I manage about 8 files via DW and the same thing happens
with all of them.
> I
> have not changed the FTP configuration settings for any
of them.
>
> Do you know what is going on and how do I fix this
problem?
>
> Amy
>

TPS and TPDF Files Not Deleted by Distiller

I just upgraded from Acrobat 6.0 to 8.0. Now when I save a FrameMaker book to PDF, Distiller does not delete the TPDF and TPS files. Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do about it?
Thanks,
Stephen Liddiard

When you save a FrameMaker book as a PDF file, (File > Save Book As) FrameMaker creates a temporary PostScript file with a file type extension of TPS. After it has finished writing the TPS file, FrameMaker invokes Distiller to process the TPS file into a PDF file. As part of the process of turning the TPS file into a PDF file, Distiller creates a temporary PDF file with a file type extension of TPDF.
With version 6 and earlier versions, Distiller cleaned up after itself by deleting these files. With version 8, it leave these files behind.
I'd like to know if this is a bug or if it's a new feature. If it's the latter, I'd like to know how to disable it so that Distiller goes back to cleaning up its junk.
(I am using FrameMaker 7.0)
Regards
Stephen Liddiard

Temse files not deleted

Hi all,
After housekeeping of job logs via report RSBTCDEL2, the job logs are deleted in SAP but temse files in unix are not deleted. Temse consistency check does not indicate any problem, what could be the cause?

Hi,
Please check this thread
Missing job log
Regards,
Subodh

TGW on Linux - log files not deleting

I have been running TGW 3.5 for a few months on Linux and noticed the disk space is full. It seems the TGW logs are not clearing out. I have had to manually delete loads of log files.
From the logs there seems to be a process which checks how long the logs have been there but for some reason not deleting them.

By design TGW doesn't clear out old log files thinking that it would help in troubleshooting. But we are planning to enhance it by clearing log files older than x number of days..
As you mentioned, the current fix is to manually clear out old log files. How often do you have to clear the logs ? Probably increasing available diskspace may help reduce iterations for cleaning up old logs ...

Local View files not deleting

Hopefully someone can assist with this one. I have someone on
my team creating browser windows, but when the person tests the
browser window, it comes up 'page unavailable'. I try checking out
the browser window document and I can't view the document or delete
the document. I create a new browser window, link the document and
everything works. Any ideas why the original browser window would
not delete or not check out? Thanks for any assistance!

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html

Dreamweaver CS3 Remote files not visible

Hello,
I have a problem with DW CS3. When I click on remote view, I
cannot see my files. I can connect via Filezilla, and I can log
onto the remote server control panel and all of the files are
there. The site is working fine. When I try "preview in browser"
command, I get a page cannot be found error. Afterward, there is a
folder visible in remote panel with the temp file in it. Here is
what I have tried so far:
Deleted the site in site management panel and set up again as
new site.
Toggled passive FTP, same problem either way.
Everything was working fine until this week when I started
having problems getting DW to connect via ftp. The connection
became intermittent, then seemed to die. Now when I use the site
management panel to test the connections, they work fine, but I
can't see the files.
I have not recently installed or changed any software on my
PC.
I am using Win XP
Any ideas?

Please tell us the following:
1. Do you have a Testing server defined? If so, what are the
field
contents on that page?
2. When you connect to the site and then expand the Files
panel, which
server icon at the top is selected? Is it the one with the
lightning bolt?
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"jackhmr" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gmcgk7$ihr$[email protected]..
> Hello,
> I have a problem with DW CS3. When I click on remote
view, I cannot see my
> files. I can connect via Filezilla, and I can log onto
the remote server
> control panel and all of the files are there. The site
is working fine.
> When I
> try "preview in browser" command, I get a page cannot be
found error.
> Afterward, there is a folder visible in remote panel
with the temp file in
> it.
> Here is what I have tried so far:
> Deleted the site in site management panel and set up
again as new site.
> Toggled passive FTP, same problem either way.
>
> Everything was working fine until this week when I
started having problems
> getting DW to connect via ftp. The connection became
intermittent, then
> seemed
> to die. Now when I use the site management panel to test
the connections,
> they
> work fine, but I can't see the files.
>
> I have not recently installed or changed any software on
my PC.
> I am using Win XP
> Any ideas?
>

Adobe XMP Files not deleted with Raw Files in ACR

I am using Photoshop CS3 on a Windows XP platform. My camera raw files are mostly kept on a Windows 2003 file server, which has a gigabit connection to my workstation. However, I have the same problems when using PS CS3 on my Windows XP laptop.
I take many hundreds of 'technical' photographs using an Olympus E1 and Canon G9 cameras. I usually bracket the exposures on the E1, specially when photographing white painted yachts, and then rate and select the images that I want in ACR 4.1.1. Unwanted images are deleted at this time.
The problem I am having is that the associated *.xmp files are not always deleted with the camera raw files, with the result that I now have literally thousands of these 'orphaned' files cluttering up the server. The only options I have are to delete the files manually, which is a pain, or to leave them on the server, wasting unnecessary space.
I have the same issue with Canon and Nikon raw files, so this problem is not specific to Olympus files.
This is a long standing problem, and I would be grateful if anyone has any answers?
If any Adobe programmers are watching, it would be handy if you could provide a simple utility to delete orphaned *.xmp files, or at least compress them into some kind of archive.
Thanks,
Nigel.

[quote] As far as Photoshop and ACR go, ALL raw files are treated as read-only.
Your original raw files remain untouched, no matter what you do to them.
Any adjustments you make to a raw file are kept only as metadata (flags, if you will) in that XMP side-car file. Every time you want to re-open that raw image file, ACR will reach for the XMP file and apply the adjustments automatically, transparently. [/quote]
That is not quite correct. Camera RAW files can be permanently deleted from within Adobe Camera Raw. The problem with ACR 4.1 to 4.4 4 was that the XMP files were left behind. This now seems to have been rectified in the latest version (ACR 4.5).
Thank you Adobe!

Files NOT deleted from hard drive

iTunes will not send files to my recycle bin, only from remove them from my library. I have 2 computers with 7.0.2.16 running. One will ask me if I want to move files to my recycle bin, which it will then do. The other won't ask and won't delete them. I am unable to find any preferences item that would prohibit iTunes from deleting files, so what have I done to stop it and how do I change it?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Michael J. Guth
QX6700 Windows XP Pro

At some point, I guess you accidentally clicked on the box for "Do not ask me again". At some point I'll figure out how to fix it with a script/program, but until then, the only fix is to close iTunes and then rename or delete your preferences file<pre>C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml</pre>
Unfortunately, you will lose all of the rest of your preferences too

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