dropbox backup

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December 17, 2021
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I set up dropbox to back up my photos and now my catalog and photos are missing

Windows

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Randy Hufford

Community Expert

Dropbox has a feature that you see files locally but stores in cloud to save space on your local computer. It is called smart sync. It sounds like it is truned on. I keep 1 of my machines wioth 20 tb of staorge so i always have files availably locally and in cloud.

read about it here https://www.dropbox.com/smart-sync

If you have the dropbox program operting it marks your files on ( from within finder or explorer) with different icons so you can easily see status of files.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

If Dropbox has not left a Full-Size original on your hard-drive (and NOT just a link to the file in Dropbox), then yes- your files will appear as missing.

Lightroom-Classic can only work with the original files and the Catalog 'Local' in your system.

Do some research about Dropbox options.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

dj_paige

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What software are you using? Please provide the following basic information:

F. McLion

Community Expert

And how could we be of help here?

Please be much more specific and share much more information ... my crystal ball is out for polishing.

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