Folder sync

[Wayne Fox]

I don't remember this being the normal behavior ... not sure if I have setting wrong or something is amiss. I cannot sync a folder if it contains any folders ... LR just sits there "searching" for changes, nothing ever happens.

As I said, I don't remember this behavior before, but I didn't use the option much.  Any help appreciated.

[wolfnowl]

Just tried it by synching the 'My Pictures' folder - XP/ LR2

Worked with no problems.  That doesn't help you, but it does work, at least for me as it says it found 390 images.  Most of those are old exports and things, but it did find them.

Mike.

[vandevanterSH]

I don't remember this being the normal behavior ... not sure if I have setting wrong or something is amiss. I cannot sync a folder if it contains any folders ... LR just sits there "searching" for changes, nothing ever happens.

As I said, I don't remember this behavior before, but I didn't use the option much.  Any help appreciated.
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I am having some strange behavior also..Jeff says they are machine issues rather than LR2 issues... I wanted to reorganize a master.lrcat but I loose images and other "strange" behavior with the spinning "wheel of doom".
I am going to give it a rest for a few days and see if any more info is posted.

Steve

[digitaldog]

I don't remember this being the normal behavior ... not sure if I have setting wrong or something is amiss. I cannot sync a folder if it contains any folders ... LR just sits there "searching" for changes, nothing ever happens.

As I said, I don't remember this behavior before, but I didn't use the option much.  Any help appreciated.
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Well IMHO its a bug (one I reported during beta). Its not going to crop up with all sub folders, we never figured out what on earth caused this in some sub folders (what inside caused this to happen). So no, you're not alone and no, we don't know what is the cause or the fix but its surely is a bug. In my case, it was only one folder. I could sync if I removed it or did this manually on all other sub folders.

[Wayne Fox]

Well IMHO its a bug (one I reported during beta). Its not going to crop up with all sub folders, we never figured out what on earth caused this in some sub folders (what inside caused this to happen). So no, you're not alone and no, we don't know what is the cause or the fix but its surely is a bug. In my case, it was only one folder. I could sync if I removed it or did this manually on all other sub folders.
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Thanks.  I'll see if I can figure out which folder(s) are involved.

[Wayne Fox]

OK, it appears that LR under OS x 10.5 may have problems with an image file that doesn't have a file extension.  I decided to  sync the folders one at a time to see if I could find which one might be giving LR a problem, and found two folders that contained an image without an extension.  one file name was xxxxxjpg ... the dot was missing.  Another contained a tiff file with no extension.

Correcting both of these solved LR's problem with them when syncing the overall large folder.  These are images in very old folders so I'm pretty sure the file names have not changed since version 1.  However, there is a strong possibility that these images were not in my library so version 1 actually just skipped them during a sync where as version 2 gets hung up on them.

Anyway, sycning now works fine once I corrected the file extension on these 2 image files.

[digitaldog]

OK, it appears that LR under OS x 10.5 may have problems with an image file that doesn't have a file extension. 

Bingo, that's it. Worked for me as well. Good catch. The LR team will be happy to know the causes.