Lightroom not updating files in drive

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August 24, 2024
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I went on a trip and copied files from my extenral hard drive to a samller portbable drive and worked on them while away. When I got home I hooked up my permanent extenral drive and the files were missing because they had been relinked so I clicked on the missing file icon and relinked one to the file's original location. I thought this would relink all of the files in the same folder but it's not. So I am having to relink each one indivdiuually. Why isn't Lightroom doing the automatic relinking like it usually does? Thanks.

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Correct answer JohanElzenga

Relink folders if possible, not individual files. If you do have to relink files, then there is an option at the bottom of the dialog to also relink 'nearby' images. Did you check that box?

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Barton5C39Author

Inspiring

Thanks. In the left side panel, none of my connected drives are showing up. See screen shot. Usually they are listed there, and if there are missing/unlinked folders, they are displayed with a question mark. Any idea why they are not there? I also made sure that the box was checked asking to find nearby files, and it is. But that's not working. Thanks. Still, LR is locating the files on the external drive when I manually lcoate them.

GoldingD

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That screenshot is in the Develop Module. What you are thinking of would be in the Library Module

and see:

https://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

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Barton5C39Author

Inspiring

Right of course. Thank you. The screen shot shows the folder where these files are selected. The folder does not have a question mark associated with it. Also, there are 197 files in the folder on the drive, but only 36 reflected in LR. Presumably those are the files I manually relinked. The next folder on the drive (2024-07-21) has 115 files and this number is correct in both LR and File Explorer. It's as if the 2024-07-29 folder was somehow deleted/went missing, then recreated and LR is starting from scratch. But all the other folders (which were not copied to the portable hard drive, it's remembering. I don't understand what could be going on and so don't know how to relink/resolve the drive. Any ideas?

JohanElzenga

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Relink folders if possible, not individual files. If you do have to relink files, then there is an option at the bottom of the dialog to also relink 'nearby' images. Did you check that box?

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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