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Offline Fitz A

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Copy Photos doesn't move all the photos
« on: April 21, 2008, 01:40:07 AM »
There are occasions where I want to move and delete the original jpegs, but I have to use the command a second time to finish the job.

For example, I have a folder on my desktop with 10 to 300 jpegs (30k to 2MB). I want to move these photos to a mounted disk image and delete them from the folder. I open the folder as a contact sheet. I select all the photos. I press Command + Y for Copy Photos and select Move Photos (delete originals) in the Copy Options dialog. After clicking the  Copy button, about a third of the time, I will still have some pictures left over. So I have to use the command again. This becomes quite tiresome when you're trying to fill up a DVD  sized disk image.

I have my contact sheets sorted by Filename, and I thought this was happening after reordering some pictures around, causing the sorting to change to Arrangement. But as far as I can tell, it does this either way.

I'm hoping you all will be able to reproduce this .

I'm on a MacBook Pro 2.4 with 4GB ram running  Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Photo Mechaninc 4.5.3.1

Fitz
« Last Edit: April 21, 2008, 01:42:53 AM by Fitz A »

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Re: Copy Photos doesn't move all the photos
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2008, 02:40:49 AM »
I can't imagine why what you are seeing is happening.  Seeing that no-one replied, I guess no-one is seeing the same behaviour.  Are you perhaps not selecting all the files when you use the command?
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Re: Copy Photos doesn't move all the photos
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2008, 06:30:05 AM »
I can't imagine why what you are seeing is happening.  Seeing that no-one replied, I guess no-one is seeing the same behaviour.  Are you perhaps not selecting all the files when you use the command?

I am working directly with Fitz to solve/diagnose the problem.

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Re: Copy Photos doesn't move all the photos
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2008, 11:27:30 PM »
Kirk,

I can confirm this. I have exactly the same problem on Windows version of PM. Can you help me with this too?:)

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Re: Copy Photos doesn't move all the photos
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2008, 06:34:25 AM »
I can confirm this. I have exactly the same problem on Windows version of PM. Can you help me with this too?:)

Please describe your issue in detail.  Fitz's problem turned out to be user error.

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