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Kellsie
Kellsie
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October 17, 2023
Question

Lightroom photos edited in Photoshop Missing

  • October 17, 2023
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I do nearly all my work from within Lightroom but ocasionally I select a photo and send it to Photoshop to edit. When I get done editing in Photoshop, I click save and exit. When I return to Lightroom, I see a new photo placeholder but no photo and the "missing photo" message. This happens 100% of the time when I edit a Lightroom photo in Photoshop and return. Any idea how to resolve?

 

Currently I have to go through the process of finding the photo everytime. I think the reason why the issue exists is that my Lightroom catalog is in a folder in the root of my "C:" drive instead of in My Documents. Lightroom thinks the missing photo is in a non-existant location My Documents as part of the path.

  • Actual Lightroom catalog/file location: C:\Lightroom_Catalogs\Latest_Import\DNG
  • Location Lightroom has for the missing file: C:\Users\username\OneDrive - CompanyName\Lightroom_Catalogs\DNG

 

I can't figure out why Lightroom is looking for a file in a folder path that is very different than the path the existing catalog and files are in.

 

Any ideas?

 

Windows 11

Lightroom Classic 13.0 Build [2023092709145a1c6485]

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    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 17, 2023

    Sounds like OneDrive is fouling you up. Personally I avoid OneDrive like the plague. I find it to intrusive. I find it trys to force its use upon me.

     

    On my PC, I use a local account, not a MS account. That completely ignores OneDrive.

     

    Now as a OneDrive detractor, I do not have a whole lot of first had knowledge on what the heck may be going on. But it sure looks like OneDrive is forcing the photo to be on OneDrive, not just backed up to One Drive.

     

    If you unplug from the Internet, and look for that photo in that second path you showed, does the photo show up?

     

    Do we have a OneDrive Guru out their that can explain??

    Kellsie
    KellsieAuthor
    Participant
    October 18, 2023

    I wouldn't be using OneDrive but the laptop I'm using a loaner from work. In an effort to keep Lightroom from putting all my files in OneDrive, I've created a folder completely separate in the root of my drive for my catalogs.

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