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NickSimper
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March 25, 2017
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Light Room [Novice]

  • March 25, 2017
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Recently acquired Light Room and set about transferring all photographs from Aperture to Light Room. Did this manually as I wanted to check all the folders for content. Some individual pictures I sent to Photoshop CC for tweaking, and then saved the result back to Light Room. Tweaked and fiddled and updated all folders.

At last I had all the pictures loaded and all the folders in order. Saved it all.

Went away for a week and turned my Mac off . Came back and switched on.

All folders were still there, and the content was just as I had left it.

EXCEPT

ALL folders are now greyed out and have a Question mark on them.

I can access the folders and view them, but unable to edit [most buttons greyed out] or transfer them, or move them.

This relates to Every file in Light Room.

How can I get the whole lot back to a useable state

NAS

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    Correct answer Joe Foe Toe

    This article basically spells out the possibilities and fixes: https://www.lightroomforums.net/threads/lightroom-thinks-my-photos-are-missinghow-do-i-fix-it.27599/   Perhaps a drive letter changed or a top level folder was added?  If you can nail the parent folder correctly as outlined in the article, usually everything else falls right into place.

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    John Blaustein
    John Blaustein
    Inspiring
    March 25, 2017

    Hi,

    If you are new to Lightroom, you would likely benefit from reading the free ebook available here:

    https://www.lightroomqueen.com/

    https://www.lightroomqueen.com/quickstart/

    And Adobe TV has some terrific video tutorials:

    Lightroom tutorials | Learn how to use Lightroom CC

    Hope this helps.

    John

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    allaboutamit
    Participating Frequently
    March 25, 2017

    It appears that files and folders have moved outside of Lightroom. In any case, right click any one of the folders with a question mark and click on 'Find Missing Folder' then tell lightroom where the folder is.

    reestablish the connection with other nearby folders and all the images contained in them. Hope that helps

    J
    Joe Foe ToeCorrect answer
    Legend
    March 25, 2017

    This article basically spells out the possibilities and fixes: https://www.lightroomforums.net/threads/lightroom-thinks-my-photos-are-missinghow-do-i-fix-it.27599/   Perhaps a drive letter changed or a top level folder was added?  If you can nail the parent folder correctly as outlined in the article, usually everything else falls right into place.

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