After having done considerable work with my image collection in PM+ windows during the day, I take my Mac BOOK Pro (running OS 12.3) offline & put it to sleep in the evening (also turning off my bluetooth keyboard). I leave open applications (including PM+) open. When I first go to my desk in the morning, the external drive which contains both image data & PM+ catalog is running!
I have checked this for 3 consecutive days now-- both just after having run catalog “full sync” and a complete re-index in Catalog management.
When I first try to make another change in the image data, the window goes blank and shows “0” in the total images, although the icon for the external drive appears on the desktop and I have no warning that it was ejected improperly. The drive shows that it continues to run. Nothing on the drive is accessible. (It is acting as if it has been ejected, but there is nothing I have done to eject it!). This may not be a CameraBits issue, but it appears to be. Everything else on the computer works fine when I wake it up in the morning. This seems to only affect the external disk on which all my image files and the PM+ Catalog exist. (I know you suggest keeping the catalog on the computer’s start-up disk, but I do not because I want to be able to hand my son one drive which has everything he needs on it to access all the images catalogued and ready to go. I even have a recent version of a .dmg. for PM+ on the disk so he can load it on another computer, plug in the drive, load PM+ and everything -hopefully- works!)
So, next I turn off the external drive, wait 5 seconds and turn it back on. It appears on the desktop. Activating PM+, the window that was open when I shut down the night before continues to remain empty & selecting the folder that continues to appear in the upper left corner does nothing. I have tried changing all the window menu items (Sort by, etc.). If I go to the folder I had open and drag it to the app, it opens perfectly fine and works fine. (I have only lost some of the sorting work I did--which is a nuisance since the only way-that I have found- to save a sort (rearrangement) of items, is to rename everything preceding the existing filename with a sequence #. Since my plan is to rename the entire lot once I have re-arranged it the way I want, that procedure is no problem, but if I use that process in a selection of files in a folder and do not plan to re-arrange the entire folder, I haven’t been able to discover a way to batch-remove all the temporary leading sequence #s in a folder full of files, without affecting the previously assigned filenames, so have to remove the preceding sequence # on each individual file. [Might be good in a future upgrade to create a way to temporarily save a sort order without affecting the filenames]
If you have any clues as to what is happening in the above issues or any suggestions for solving, I would appreciate it. - Jon
