Hi,
I’m a new DT user (1 day only) and have searched the forum for an answer to my question, without success (but I may have chosen an ineffective key!).
I dragged/dropped about 2500 items into a new database, a folder at a time. I then deleted all of the originals. Curious as to where the files were, I looked at the Path (as displayed in the 3-pane view if you select View>Columns>Paths). Most are in the .dtBase package - fine… but some linked to the files in Trash.
If I moved the file out of Trash and onto the Desktop, the displayed path would become the original location of the file (before I dragged into DT and deleted from Finder). Huh?! This made me very nervous, so I systematically went through all 2500 files and retrieved (from Trash) the ones whose path was to Trash (a few hundred ). I archived those onto an external disk, emptied Trash and then rebuilt the database. The log shows that it exported 2524 items and imported 2493 items.
However, all of the paths in DT still refer to the original Finder location that I dragged them from into DT. If I right-click on the file reference in DT, I don’t get the “Show in Finder” option, in contrast to the files that are in the .dtBase package. However, I can see their contents fine! File types are varied, .log, .doc, .html, .webarchive, .txt, .rtf and more (no .pdf that I can find, but there are too many Groups to search by eye).
So… my question is… where are they?! Spotlight doesn’t find them. There are 1734 items in the Files folder within the dtBase package. None of them are of the file types I listed above. Looking at the file types, I suspect that DT has compressed them and maybe hidden them in those .database files in the .dtBase package (one of them is 109MB).
I’ve spent a few hours on this, so it’s over to the forum Hope someone knows the answer to this one!
-Rick