Lightroom CC 7.1 - Problem adding some of my albums from external Hard Drive
Upgraded to Lightroom CC in early 2017. Currently using revision 7.1 with 1 Catalog, but have been using Photoshop Elements since version 4.
I was doing some housekeeping work recently, and realized that during my last upgrade from Photoshop 11.0 to Lr to Lr CC, that some of the sub-albums present on my external hard drive under the Year 2012, did not show up in Lr CC for the same year (not auto converted during cross over).
Issue:
Reviewing a few videos of how to link Lr CC to my albums on hard drive, I found that it did not work for me. Here are the steps indicated and which I took:
- 1. On left panel of Lr CC, I clicked “IMPORT” (all my albums, by year, were shown above under Folders)
- 2. Under Folders, I then selected the year and the specific sub-album
- 3. Then selected “ADD” from the top middle panel
- 4. While the photos showed up (ALL was auto selected), each photo appeared greyed out. None had the photos were framed in white border; the check mark for selection in top left of each photo was barely visible.
- 5. In the right panel, I had 2 headings: “File Handling” and “Apply During Import” which were active. No “Destination” heading (this may only be in earlier versions of Lr CC?)
- 6. Bottom right of 3rd panel, only CANCEL was highlighted. “IMPORT” was not, indicating it was not actionable.
- 7. Right clicking on a photo, says “This appears to be a duplicate of another phot in the Catalog”, (how do I determine where they are if duplicates exist? Perhaps this is the issue?)
Note 1: On my external drive, I have several other Main Albums listed from 2002 to 2017, all with sub-albums. They all show up in Folders in Lr CC, but only sub-albums in 2017 allow me to ADD correctly.
Note 2: When I exit Lr CC, I always perform a Back-up. It states, ”Doing a back-up of Catalog 1-2”. Is this suggesting I have 2 Catalogs? I have only worked on 1 Catalog?
Anyone have any experiences with this issue and how it was resolved?
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