Finding Missing Pictures and Repairing Links

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When you’re viewing both the thumbnail grid In the Folders panel in Lightroom Classic, look at where the question marks (marking missing items) are.

If the question marks are on both folders and images, then a folder at a higher level in the hierarchy may have gotten moved or renamed, causing its path to no longer match what Lightroom Classic remembered. The best case scenario is if all 100 missing photos and folders are under a single parent folder in the folder hierarchy that got unlinked. If you relink that parent folder, everything in all subfolders will automatically get relinked (assuming nothing else about them changed). So, don’t start repairing anything until you are sure it isn’t all under one folder that can fix everything in one step if relinked.

The way you relink a folder is to right-click it (or, Control-click if you’re using a Mac that doesn’t have right-click enabled), choose Find Missing Folder, and show Lightroom Classic where that folder is now.

If the question marks are on images but not folders, then something has happened to the images, like being renamed, moved to a different folder, or deleted.

If the question marks are only on some but not all images, the something odd has happened to just some of the images, and unfortunately in this case each one has to be resolved individually. This is the worst case scenario because it involves the most work.

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In the Library menu, choose Find all missing photos.

Look at the Folder's in the Folders Panel first, see if any folder went missing and fix that first.

And see:

• https://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

It would be helpful if you told what you did that caused these photos to be missing. Did you rename them outside of LrC? Did you move them outside of LrC? (If you did move them, don't you know where you moved them to?) Did you do something else?