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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 15, 2016 4:16:06 GMT
Occasionally, I will notice that random image files stored in my folders will have a suffix added onto the end of the correct file name; this is what is added _edTMP-1
This is on the original file and not treated like a "_copy" where the original file is still there and a duplicate or edited copy added as well.
There will only be the single original file, but with this _edTMP-1 added to the name.
If I am doing something to cause this, if I knew just what I would do differently.
Thanks for reading.
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Post by Sepiana on Aug 15, 2016 4:55:20 GMT
A .tmp file is a temporary file which is created while Elements is saving your file. I have no idea why this file is being kept.
I have never seen a .tmp file when using Elements. However, I have seen it when using Photoshop. You cannot close Photoshop while it is saving your file. (This program will close itself when the saving is completed.) If I go to My Pictures while Photoshop is saving my file, I will see a .tmp file. However, once the saving is completed, there will be no .tmp file, only my "final" file.
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 15, 2016 6:15:38 GMT
Thanks, Sepiana
The affected files I noticed today were randomly scattered throughout a folder of 108 images; of the 108, approximately 12 files had mysteriously acquired this suffix.
None of these files had yet been in the editor.
I did load all 108 of them into the organizer several months ago and add tags and captions.
I also used FastStone to add jpeg comments to all of them.
I do not know just when the mysterious suffix got added as I just noticed it today when I decided to edit/enhance them.
From what I can tell, whatever caused this suffix to be applied to random files, it has not changed anything other than the name.
Nothing different was done to the affected images that wasn't also done to all the others.
Maybe I will run some of my practice guinea-pig images through the same process that was done with these images and see if I can replicate it, and therefore maybe figure out just what is doing it.
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Post by Sepiana on Aug 15, 2016 6:51:06 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 15, 2016 9:22:28 GMT
Thanks again, Sepiana.
The scenario in the first link explains my situation almost to a T.
Also, when it happened, I didn't quite make the connection, but I have had to reconnect several of these files with the catalog.
In all the years that I have been using E7, until this episode showed up, I might have seen a stray _edTMP-1 show up once in a blue moon.
I hope it isn't going to start being a common occurrence.
There is a real danger that someone could mistakenly delete one of these files and it be their only copy.
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Post by Sepiana on Aug 15, 2016 17:41:20 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 15, 2016 18:18:15 GMT
Thanks; I did bookmark that and it looks like I will have a lot of good reading now.
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 16, 2016 1:20:44 GMT
I just noticed the file count in our catalog; 41,161 items not shown plus the 608 items currently shown = 41,769 total.
I am unclear whether hidden items are included in this count or not.
My wife got her "big girl" camera (DSLR) Christmas 2013 and I then got mine in July 2014; it will be scary to think how many images we will have in another 2-1/2 years.
I am thinking that may have some bearing on the corrupted file naming business.
Puzzling thing is, I looked in the recycle bin and all 108 files (original I guess, prior to the captions) were in the recycle bin and nary a one had the extraneous addition to the file name.
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