Xojo "forgetting" images

General
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sigh…
I opened my project this morning and for the 2nd time in two days… Xojo forgot where about 2 dozen images were… (and no I did NOT move or rename them)
The Imagesets were there, they had the correct names, but there were no images inside…

“One or more image representations are missing”

I had to drag the images back into the IDE again.

Any idea why this might all of sudden be happening? and what if anything I can do to insure it doesn’t happen again?

macOS Sierra, Xojo2016r4.1

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Are they in a remote folder? Cloud or dropbox?

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no… there are in a folder on the same physical drive as the project code
they are in multiple folders… but still all on the same drive

and it doesn’t forget “All” of them… there are like 200+ images (@1x and @2x versions) and it forgot about 2 dozen or so

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@Dave S - I’ve run into this on occasion and couldn’t find a repeating pattern (always different images). At first, I though it was the sizing thing (1x, 2x, 3x) and the lack of DPI info in the headers for the Photoshop exported images. In each case to fix it, I deleted the image set and recreated it it.

What I miss is a working “Resolve Issues” functionality - <https://xojo.com/issue/49301>

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When the images areall in the same folder, we only have to locate one file and Xojo found the others (macOS / Windows 8-10-current).
When you have many images located in many folders, we only have to locate one for each folder (my experience here dates a bit, but I think this is still the case, at last 'till El Capitan).)
I moved (this week) a project in the VirtualBox shared folder, and so I had to move some images too (in a single folder). Once in Windows XP, I only had to select one image from that new folder and all went OK.
Of course, all of the above are in the boot disk. *

At last, I do not have an answer for the OP question.

  • I stopped to use project(s) from external HD since two years ago after having troubles (certainly not related, but who knows ?). I also stopped using non ASCII names for files “just in case it matters”.
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[quote=366030:@Dave S]no… there are in a folder on the same physical drive as the project code
they are in multiple folders… but still all on the same drive

and it doesn’t forget “All” of them… there are like 200+ images (@1x and @2x versions) and it forgot about 2 dozen or so[/quote]

Really odd, how is your project saved? XML? Binary? Text?

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XML
everything (project, images etc) are all stored rooted from a single folder on the same external drive (I don’t keep anything on the internal drive that I don’t have to)
All files are standard ASCII characters (A-Z, 0-9, _ ) dot PNG [xxxx.png]

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[quote=366052:@Dave S]XML
everything (project, images etc) are all stored rooted from a single folder on the same external drive (I don’t keep anything on the internal drive that I don’t have to)
All files are standard ASCII characters (A-Z, 0-9, _ ) dot PNG [xxxx.png][/quote]

I’ve never had such issues, but i have also never used the xml project type.
Mostly i use text, but sometimes binary.

Still it’s a light suggestion, could there be some issue in XML type projects?

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Well… I’ve been using XML format since longer than I can remember… and never suffered this issue…
But then Imagesets are fairly recent.

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[quote=366062:@Dave S]Well… I’ve been using XML format since longer than I can remember… and never suffered this issue…
But then Imagesets are fairly recent.[/quote]
Sort it in an XML project and then save as text to see if the problem goes away.

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I haven’t used XML format yet. Can you see any differences between the XML file when you get the error and the XML file after you fix the problem? Maybe some path/info is not saved/read correctly?