Lightroom catalog in dropbox cache and will not reconnect with photos

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February 12, 2025
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My entire lightroom catalog is in a folder called dropbox cache and I cannot reconnect it to my photos which are on an external hard drive. I have tried many fixes but nothing seems to work. The folders in dropbox cache all have question marks and when I try to connect the missing folder to my hard drive - nothing happens. The only thing that works is reconnecting individual photos manually. I have over 100,000 photos and this would take forever.

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dj_paige

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My entire lightroom catalog is in a folder called dropbox cache

LrC Catalog in any folder synched with the cloud (DropBox, OneDrive, etc.) is a bad idea. It is a disaster waiting to happen.

and I cannot reconnect it to my photos which are on an external hard drive. I have tried many fixes but nothing seems to work

Tell us what you tried, in detail. Tell us what happened, in detail. If there was an error message, please quote the complete exact unedited error message. And get your catalog out of any folder related to DropBox or other cloud services.

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philr51159246Author

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I can't get it out of the Dropbox cache. I tried but I cannot see it in windows explorer.

The issue started during a trip where I used 2 1tb hard drives instead of my large 4tb drive with all my photos. At some point my 4tb catalog disappeared. When I reconnected the 4 to drive after getting back home it would no longer link to the catalog.

I synchronized but it created a duplicate of all photos which I eventually erased. The entire catalog is in proper order in the Dropbox cache but it will not link to hard drive.

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dj_paige

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I can't get it out of the Dropbox cache. I tried but I cannot see it in windows explorer.

In Windows Explorer, you have to turn on the option to show hidden files.

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