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daveatcrucial
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February 12, 2025
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"All Photographs" not showing all photographs

  • February 12, 2025
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I imported and edited images in to a new catalog yesterday. Today, all the images aren't showing. When I choose "All Photographs" it says "1377 of 1395". All stacks are expanded. I tried importing the ones it won't show me, but they are greyed out in the Import window, meaning they are in the catalog somewhere. I have tried searching by file name and no results, yet I worked on them. No attributes selected. How to a enable visibility for literally all photos in a catalog, regardless of status?

Correct answer dj_paige

There are some photos that are currently "hidden" (LrC doesn't use the word "hidden", but I use it here because I think it fits) and you have to unhide them.

 

Two steps to unhide

  1. Turn off Filters (ctrl-L once or twice)
  2. Expand all stacks (right-click on a photo, select Stacking->Expand All Stacks)

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dj_paige
dj_paigeCorrect answer
Legend
February 13, 2025

There are some photos that are currently "hidden" (LrC doesn't use the word "hidden", but I use it here because I think it fits) and you have to unhide them.

 

Two steps to unhide

  1. Turn off Filters (ctrl-L once or twice)
  2. Expand all stacks (right-click on a photo, select Stacking->Expand All Stacks)
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daveatcrucialAuthor
Participant
February 13, 2025

That seemed to work. Weird thing was, I tried that initially but I still had the images missing. I think somehow a filter was "stuck" on even tho I disabled them first time I tried (and all my Denoise stacks were destacked too, even tho I didn't knowingly destack them). Thank you.

dj_paige
dj_paige
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February 13, 2025
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That seemed to work. Weird thing was, I tried that initially but I still had the images missing. I think somehow a filter was "stuck" on even tho I disabled them first time I tried (and all my Denoise stacks were destacked too, even tho I didn't knowingly destack them). Thank you.


By @daveatcrucial

 

You might want to know there is a difference between "Expand all stacks" and "Unstack" (which may be what you meant by "destack"). You do not want to "Unstack" or "Destack".

Sameer K
Community Manager
Sameer KCommunity Manager
Community Manager
February 13, 2025

Hey, @daveatcrucial. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll need more info to help you figure this out.

Does this happen after a specific series of steps? Please share the system info from Lightroom Help > System info > Copy and paste into a text document > Upload and attach here.

 

Is the catalog also stored on the network drive? Try duplicating your catalog: 

1 - Press & hold the ALT/OPT key & launch Lightroom Classic with a new catalog.

2 - In the new catalog, go to File > Import from catalog > target your old catalog.

3 - Proceed with merging the previous catalog into the newly made, internal storage-based catalog. For more help via video-based steps, check here. See https://adobe.ly/3NTC9Rv

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Sameer K

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