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julief57036690
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February 20, 2023

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  • February 20, 2023
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I have over 60,000 images on an external hard drive.  Today when I opened Lightroom and tried to navigate to a recent image using the Navigator Panel, the folders and subfolders are all showing the numbers of photos inside the folder, but when I click on a subfolder it says "No photos in the selected Folder".  When I check the Finder they are there.  If I go to the highest level of parent folder on that external drive all 60,000 images are showing at that level and I can scroll through them.  But when I drill down to any lower level that the very highest, they are not there.  I have not done any moving of files or folders in the last several months and up until today everything was working fine.  I have not installed any new plugins or done anything out of the ordinary with Lightroom recently.  Any idea why this is happening and more importantly how I can fix it?  I've included a couple of screenshots to show what I'm talking about.

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    Abigail28583633n332
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    March 3, 2023
    Hi
    Fallout from retreating back to LTR v12.1 after the disastrous upgrade has left me with two folders on external drives that are partial duplicates. The methods that were suggested to get them back in their proper places were to update folder and check capitalization. Neither worked and now one of the orphans is saying that nasty message of “no photos in selected folder”.

    In Finder all data is intact and in its correct location. Reinstalling v12.1 did fix the original issue except for creating the orphans. All very frustrating….

    Hope the above explains my problem.

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    Abigail Gossage
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      johnrellis
      johnrellis
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      March 3, 2023

      @Abigail28583633n332 wrote, "Unfortunately this did not work for me."

       

      What didn't work for you?  (Unfortunately, the mediocre forum platform doesn't indicate which post you're replying to.)

       

      Many people have reported here that rolling back to LR 12.1 works around the problem. Does that work for you?

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      Erzebeth
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      March 2, 2023

      I did a roll back to 12.1 and it worked! I can open all my folders again!

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        Abigail28583633n332
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        March 2, 2023
        Unfortunately this did not work for me.

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        Abigail Gossage
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        Abigail28583633n332
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        March 2, 2023
        I have spent a good part of today trying to ge my folders back together. Updating folder location did not work. Suggestions?

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        Abigail Gossage
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        Erzebeth
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        March 1, 2023

        I have the same problem as julief57036690.

        It al started after updating to 12.2

        johnrellis
        johnrellis
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        March 1, 2023

        "After rolling back from LR 12.2 to 12.1, the photos in the folders were displayed again. But the split folders remain and cannot be merged either."

         

        Others have solved that problem using these steps:

        https://www.lightroomqueen.com/capitalization-catalog-error/

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        QLeif
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        March 1, 2023

        Hab das gleiche Problem aber auf MacOS 13.2.1. Betrifft übrigens nur die Fotos auf einer externen HD. Lokale oder Fotos auf Netzlaufwerken sind nicht betroffen.

        Für alle Importe nach Update auf LR 12.2 wurden die Bilder nicht mehr unter "/ -> Volumes -> extHD" in die Bibliothek geschrieben sondern direkt unter "extHD" ohne übergeordneten Ordner. Dadurch sind in der Bibliothek einige Ordner nun doppelt, allerdings beide mit nur jeweils einem Teil der Fotos.

        Direkt auf der extHD über den Finder ist alles normal. 

        Nach Rollback von LR 12.2 auf 12.1 wurden die Fotos in den Ordnern wieder angezeigt. Aber die aufgeteilten Ordner bleiben und lassen sich auch nicht zusammenführen.

         

        johnrellis
        johnrellis
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        March 1, 2023

        @sophiet75370090, try rolling back to LR 12.1 and let us know if the problem goes away.

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        sophiet75370090
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        March 1, 2023

        Hi!

        Glad I'm not alone on my island! I have the same problem. 50,000 picts, "No pictures in the selected folder." I recently updated to LR 12.2 and Ventura on my Macbook. Is there a major conflict? I got help to rebuild a catalog on my IMac with all my pictures, but it is not working. LR won't load my pictures and organize them like before. Question: do you use Topaz Sharpen? I noticed all the extensions of my picts are now S instead of LR. Could it mix up Lightroom? What a mess! 

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