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simonologist5382
simonologist5382
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July 5, 2018
Question

I moved my preview files now I can't open them anymore

  • July 5, 2018
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Hi,

so because Lightroom filled up all my hard drive space with the preview files I had to emergency move that one file with all the previews to an external drive, thinking I could still somehow get them back... now all I see in Lightroom is empty frames

Is there a way to still get all those previews back?

I appreciate any help I can get!!!

thanks (pretty desperate here)

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    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 5, 2018

    Lightroom will automatically rebuild the previews, but only while the originals are online.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    simonologist5382
    simonologist5382Author
    Participating Frequently
    July 5, 2018

    It's not doing that with any all I get is this which also makes it hard to find the originals because I have the raw files on multiple hard drives...

    Tony_See
    Tony_See
    Inspiring
    July 5, 2018

    Simon you need to reconnect to the raw image file as Johan mentioned above by clicking on the exclamation mark in the top right corner of the thumbnail above . . .

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