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December 4, 2024
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Missin photos actually present in catalog

  • December 4, 2024
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Hi all,

recently my old Macbook Pro from 2012 died, so I bought a new one. I had Lightroom 5 that is working badly now with Sequoia, so I downloaded Lightroom Classic. Actually everything went very smooth, the old catalog got quickly updated and all the work I did in the past seems to be there. I was running some check on the catalog to be sure everything was really fine, one of them being "Finding all missing photos" from the Library menu: Lightroom found none. I then tried to synchronize the root folder of the catalog and here someting weird happened. The tab "Remove missing photos from catalog" found many picture "missing" (about 4%), but checking them through "Show missing photos" I noticed they are not missing at all. The pictures have no check that they are missing, and if I press cmd R on one of them they appear to be in the right folder within the rooth folder. I saw in the forum that this problem is not entirely new, but I couldn't find a solution. Perhaps it is connected to the fact that the rooth folder was in an external drive and I moved it with finder on the computer hard drive? Someone can help? Thank you

 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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December 5, 2024

What happens if you open such a photo in the develop module? Could you edit it? If so, I would simply ignore this. If you cannot edit the photo because the develop module also says it is missing, then this is most likely a permission problem. Make sure Lightroom Classic has 'Full Disk Access' (https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/quick-tips-how-to-give-full-disk-access-to-lightroom-classic-on-macos/td-p/12913413)

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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December 5, 2024

I can fully edit the "missing" photos... Also, I gave full disk access to lightroom classic, no differences.

Well it is fine to just ignore this, but it feels ugly. Moreover I just noticed that if I uncheck the "Remove missing photos from catalog" and I go on only with the "Import new photos", Lightroom tries to import the full catalog... I think something is messed up with the root folder position

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 5, 2024

This could be due to the photos having been copied from another computer. Always enable the Import dialog if you use 'Synchronize Folder' and always check the option to not import suspected duplicates in that dialog.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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