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wendypics6
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November 13, 2016
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"Lightroom has had problems reading this photo" after upload and I cannot delete

  • November 13, 2016
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Hello,

I have Lightroom 5.7.1 and I'm running it on a Mac (yosemite 10.10.5).  I just did a HUGE photo shoot today with several sessions.  I went to upload and after the first 30 or so the rest of them have the "Lightroom has had problems reading this photo" message.  I tried to delete them so I could try to redownload.  They are all in RAW.  I cannot delete them either, they simply won't.  This has never happened to me before and honestly I'm freaking out a tad as there are hundreds of photo's of my subjects I now can't access.  Please help!!

Thanks for any help in advance.

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dj_paige
dj_paige
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November 13, 2016

When Lightroom says it has problems reading a photo, that usually means that somehow the file has become corrupted. This could be a bad transfer between the camera card and the computer, or perhaps the file is corrupted on the camera card. If I were you, I'd try transferring the photos from camera card to the computer using different hardware, if possible.

I cannot delete them either, they simply won't.

What happens? What is the exact error message? Are you deleting in Lightroom or in your operating system?

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wendypics6Author
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November 13, 2016

Thank you so much for your reply.  I am actually trying to download them again directly to my hard drive.  Normally they go directly to a portable hard drive.  Hopefully it will work OK.  I do see the DNG files popping up.

As far as deleting them the message is: There are 229 files that could not be moved to the Trash folder.

I tried just doing 1 and got the same message.

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wendypics6Author
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November 13, 2016

I was able to get the photo's directly on my hard drive (THANK GOD..LOL).  I still cannot delete the first copies though.  Anyone have any ideas?

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