'Empty Folder' - files disappear and won't come back

**binary** · Dec 30, 2009 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by cmsk

Just to clarify. NOTHING is showing up in the folder, even after adding another file/folder.

Which folder are you referring to? I'm seeing almost a dozen folders that are successfully broadcasting events. Is the problematic folder one that doesn't show up in the log?

**cobold0815** · Jan 11, 2010 01:59 PM

I am having the same problem for months now.
Is there a more recent version of the debug-version of path finder than 510s?

Thanks for your help.
Micha

**binary** · Jan 11, 2010 07:28 PM

If you're on Snow Leopard, there's a special build of Path Finder 5.5.7s:
http://get.cocoatech.com/PathFinderFSEvents.zip

Otherwise 5.1.0 is the most recent Leopard debug build.

**cobold0815** · Jan 12, 2010 12:24 AM

Thanks.
Yes, I am on Snow Leopard and downloaded the last build. I'll procede with the instruction from page 1 of this thread when the same problem is occuring. I hope it still is with this build of path finder.

Micha

**cobold0815** · Jan 13, 2010 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by binary

When you post diagnostic messages, note what you were doing when you first noticed the problem, and what actions you performed while the diagnostic windows were open.

It crashed. And then cleared the logs and tried to add folders.

Let's pretend, I was in folder "FolderA12".
I have three tabs on the left side and had two tabs on the right side. I think, that crashes mostly happened a while after I added a third tab on the right (with "list view").

I was browsing through the folders and suddenly, nothing in the folder anymore. I couldn't add or move another folder into the emptiness. The other tabs: only the folders and the content before the crash are there.

When I browse down with the shown folders (for example to FolderA, eg. apple -> driveA -> FolderA -> FolderA1 -> FolderA12) there are folders and files shown as well. When I browse into another folder (e.g. FolderB) there is emptiness as well.

Here's the code from the logs:

General Log

Code:

rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: private/var/log/
rawFSEvent: Volumes/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: .fseventsd/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: private/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/Cleanup At Startup/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: private/var/log/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: private/var/log/DiagnosticMessages/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: private/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/-Caches-/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: private/var/log/DiagnosticMessages/
rawFSEvent: Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: private/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee++++ME+++42/-Tmp-/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: /Volumes/daten
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: private/var/log/asl/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: System/Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Library/Caches/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/
rawFSEvent: Users/.ml/ml.sparsebundle/bands/

FSEvent Log

Code:

FSEVENT(fired): /Volumes/Time Machine-Backups
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /Volumes/daten
FSEVENT(fired): /Volumes/daten
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /Volumes/daten
FSEVENT(fired): /Volumes/daten
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): 
FSEVENT(fired): 
FSEVENT(fired): /Volumes/daten
FSEVENT(fired): /Volumes/daten
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): 
FSEVENT(fired): 
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /
FSEVENT(fired): /

BTW: "/Volumes/daten" is a network folder over samba.
I also shortened the second log a bit. But there's not much more than those few lines that always get repeated. I hope that wasn't wrong...
I hope you can use those logs...
Micha

**hardtales** · Feb 05, 2010 07:06 AM

any updates on this? i've been having similar problems, although it appears unrelated to opening a new tab -- or doing anything apart from switching from one folder to another: all of a sudden, the contents of the new folder will appear as empty, and from then on, anything else i click on will appear empty as well. the only fix is to quit PF and start it up again.
this seems related to this thread -- so it seems like variations of the disappearing folder contents are cropping up in different ways. any further ideas/suggestions?

**binary** · Feb 05, 2010 02:33 PM

It sounds like your issue is slightly different. Try removing Path Finder's Application Support folder. This bug could be due to a corrupted cache, and removing app support files will cause them to be re-built.

**hardtales** · Feb 08, 2010 10:59 AM

It sounds like your issue is slightly different. Try removing Path Finder's Application Support folder. This bug could be due to a corrupted cache, and removing app support files will cause them to be re-built.

no luck - i did that (twice now) and am still getting the same thing...

**cobold0815** · Feb 09, 2010 12:43 AM

I had no luck neither. It's still "crashing" so I also have to restart the program.
Didn't my logs tell you guys anything? I got no reply from you so far.

Michael

**binary** · Feb 10, 2010 12:38 PM

When you say that Path Finder crashes, you mean that the entire program freezes, or just that it displays blank folder contents?

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