I have a few images from a photo shoot that have an exclamation point in the upper-right corner in Library view. When I mouse-over it, it says: Photo is missing. Synching Metadata with Lightroom. Although I cannot export it, If I right-click the photo and select "Show in Finder," a Finder window popus open with the correct RAW file selected. If I click the Lightroom Classic "!" icon on the image, I'm told that the file could not be used becuase the originial file could not be found, and I'm asked if I want to locate it. If I locate the file, I'm told that it's already in the catalog, so it can't be used. First of all, how could LRC be able to find the file correctly yet tell me that it can't be found? Second, if I search my catalog, there's only the single copy with the link error. I should mention that I renamed the photos in this catalog via LRC's Library > Rename Photos command. Is it possible that the file is still somehow located in the library database under the original name? Also, all the files with errors are rated at 4 stars. I tried the folder synchronize command, but that didn't do anything. I did a test where I duplicated one of the "missing" raw files, then I imported it, then I copied all the adjustments and keywords to it from the missing one. This works, but it is a long workaround, especially since there are dozens of these problem files in this shoot, and I would probably have to do them one-by-one. I cannot save metadata to the "missing" files before I do this. Also, I don't know of any way to filter for only the missing files. The whole shoot has 1400 files in it total.
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