I have recently reinstalled orb on my mac and all went well with the cataloging of files but the web interface is not updating. It is currently stuck on the previous amount of files (a failed cataloging, hence the reinstall). Do you have a specific time frame for server caching or is this just another bad mac version of orb?

Lets look at your logs, please zip up your logs folder (you can find Orb logs in /Library/Logs/OrbNetworks) and send it to mac.ctp@orb.com along with few more details like file types of the missing media, media location (like external drive, NAS drive, etc.,). Also, reference this forum post in your e-mail.