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Lightroom Classic doesn't display all pictures in 2 specific folders

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February 19, 2025
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Hi to the community

I discovered lately that 2 specific folders don't display all pictures, some are missing.

Typically these 2 folders contain respectively 575 and 121 pictures (confirmed by the Windows File Explorer).

Lightroom classic shows only 460 and 22 respectively.

When I try to synchronize the folder again, the first pop-up window shows that some files must be imported. But then when I hit synchronize, no new photo are display, as if there are already considered part of the catalogue.

Here is an example with the folder with pictures from my trip to London in October 2024:

Please help me recover these photos which were properly imported at first, since I could edit them and even synchronised some on Adobe cloud. That is how I discovered that they were missing on my local catalogue.

For information, these pictures are on a local drive. I'm using Windows 11 24h2 (latest build) and Lightroom Classic latest version (release 14.2)

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Rob_Cullen

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You have your image files synced with OneDrive- very often problematic!

Lr-Classic cannot access files that are in One-Drive unless a local copy has synced down. Possibly the reasen why LrC does not see all the files you assume are 'local'.

Check that you have all files permanently in a local folder.

Or better still, stop using OneDrive altogether.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

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phil.malyAuthor

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Hi Rob, I don't use OneDrive but Drive from Synology. All my pictures are stored locally on my HDD but synched/backed up on my Synology.

I'm working like that for about 10 years without any issue. There must be a corruption of my LrC catalog on 2 specific folders (don't know why) that prevents LrC to display all my pics.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Sorry, I mis-interpreted the Green Circle icons.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

dj_paige

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The usual cause of this is that you accidentally imported the photos into the wrong folder. The photos are in folder A in your operating system, but LrC thinks they are in folder Z. So you have to find them in the Library Module. Please search for one of the photos by performing ALL FOUR of these steps in order.

Click on All Photographs
Turn off filters
Expand all stacks (right-click on a photo and select Stacking->Expand All Stacks)
Use the filter bar to search for one of these photos by file name

Let us know if you find it.

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phil.malyAuthor

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I did what you proposed but without success.

I know that the photos are in the right folder in my operating system and were in the same folder in LrC. The simple proof is that for some I did pano stitching or HRD stitching and the resulting pictures created by LrC were stored in the same forder. WHen I look through WIndows Explorer, I see for example the photo called "202410-WEàLondres-506-Pano.dng" but when I search for this photo in LrC Catalogue following your steps, it says "No photos match the filter".

dj_paige

Legend

I know that the photos are in the right folder in my operating system and were in the same folder in LrC.

I'm sure that this is true, and it is also irrelevant. LrC thinks the photos are somewhere else. We have to find them.

... but when I search for this photo in LrC Catalogue following your steps, it says "No photos match the filter".

Just so I'm 100% clear on what you are saying, I did request you follow all four steps in order, not just the one step you mentioned. Did you perform all four steps in order?

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