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March 11, 2020
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  • March 11, 2020
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I have been using LR over 10 years. I am using LR Classic 9.2.  I keep all of photos on external hard drives.

2 days ago I discovered that all of the photos from the entire year of 2016 were wiped off of my HD though they still were in my LR catalog.

I was able to recover all of the photos from a back up drive but I had to re-import month by month back in to LR.

I don't think this is a LR problem and nothing like this has ever happened before.

Does anybody have any thoughts about what may have caused this problem?

Many thanks

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    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    March 11, 2020

    QUOTE:

    Does anybody have any thoughts about what may have caused this problem?

    END QUOTE:

     

    Yes that drive is starting to fail.

    Yes someone that has access to your computer either accidentally or on purpose Deleted them and then Emptied the trash/recycle bin.

     

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    josephd7994298Author
    Participant
    March 11, 2020

    And that is the weird thing, they were not in the trash.  So it sounds like a HD issue.  FYI, a one year old G Tech raid.

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    March 12, 2020

    Anything can fail at any time.

    The key data retention is redundancy.

    Yes some RAID systems are supposed to do that automatically.

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 11, 2020

    First of all, you should not have imported these photos again. They were still in Lightroom, so you should have 'reconnected' them: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/

     

    I also do not think this is a Lightroom issue. I have never heard any issue where Lightroom would delete images from disk, but keep the reference to them in the catalog. I have no idea what could have happened (apart from user error, of course), but I think that your experience illustrates how important backups are.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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    josephd7994298Author
    Participant
    March 11, 2020

    Thank you

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