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Published PDFs Never Appear

Anonymous
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I've been trying to publish a single PDF. The publisher report tells me that the status is saved, but no pdf appears in the Finder.
This has happened in the past, but is now recurring.

When I do a Spotlight search, there is no record of the drawing anywhere.

I have tried changing the destination and that has no effect.

If I create a new folder for the drawing, the finder tells me that the folder is empty, but also that the size of the folder is 8.2 MB (the size of the drawing).

Does anyone have any ideas?
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Anonymous
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Image of publisher report attached.
Anonymous
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This is the view of the finder (note identical file path) showing an empty folder.
Anonymous
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Okay - I feel like a bonehead. I fixed it.

Instead of dragging a folder over from the tree by subset in the Organizer, I dragged over a single drawing.

It did NOT like that.

Leaving this here in case someone else has the same problem.
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Is it anything to do with the full stop (period) at the beginning of the file name?
Sorry, I know nothing about Macs but on a PC the full stop signifies the end of the file name and the beginning of the file extension.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
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Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
If I remember correctly a (.) before a name makes the file invisible in MacOS
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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Anonymous
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I had no idea. Thank you y'all. It was driving me crazy.
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
BTW tou should erase the folder or use an utility like Onyx to turn invisible items on so that you erase all of the invisible files
That you might have created
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
another Moderator

Barry Kelly
Moderator
Or if Mac OS is anything like Windows you should be able to tell it to show (or not hide) file extensions and then you will see the file extension at least.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
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