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Missing photos from lightroom

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July 25, 2021
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I am using LR classic 10.0. I've been a LR user for a very long time. I backup my catalog regularly and those backups appear to be on my computer (desktop windows 10)

okay - so today I start LR and it tells me that I have zero photos in all my folders?

If I try and import said missing photos it greys out the images because they are already in the catalog.

Totally confused!

I've never in all the years I've been us

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GoldingD

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What hard drive are your photos on?

imagesbyvanjaAuthor

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I have 2 partitions - 'C' drive for system use and 'D' drive for data - and my photos

GoldingD

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That D drive, internal or external.

Also, as this is Windows, is the letter D permanently assigned to it?

And, is that drive allowed to go into power savings when idle? (bad for LrC)

josephlavine

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Please share a screen capture. When you use the locate missing images where does it say they were last located? Have you performed a search for one of the file names?

The more information that you can provide the better to enable people to help.

warmly/j

imagesbyvanjaAuthor

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Have posted some screenshots. When I locate the images it gives me the correct location - the original images are on the hard drive and when I go to the LR folder location it then tells me that there are no photos in that folder .

Sean McCormack

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Some good advice here, but have you restarted your computer?

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

imagesbyvanjaAuthor

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Yes - I usually turn my computer off every night - and I shutdown LR before I turn off the computer.

LR is telling me there is a new version but I won't update until I resolve whatever this issue is.

DdeGannes

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Is it possible to post a screen capture which shows what you are experiencing?

In addition provide info on the version number of Windows you have presently installed.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.3; PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

imagesbyvanjaAuthor

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thank you - yes I've just posted some screenshots.

Lauca

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First, if your photos exist in the catalog DON'T use the import. This will make you loose all the edits done on your photos.

It's not clear what you are complaining about. Do the folders in LR have a question mark in front of them ?

Are you still seing the images in the grid whan you select "All photos" ?

If so and if you store your photos on an external drive, Windows might have assigned a letter different from the previous one when you plugged the drive in. This did change the physical path to access the photo files on disk, which no longer matches the path stored in the catalog.

If it's the case, in LR right click on the top folder and select "Change location" then point to the folder on your drive. This will "reconnect" LR to your photo.

If not, please post a screenshot of LR Library module showing exactly what you see and with the folder tab opened.

imagesbyvanjaAuthor

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When I go to show in explorer from ALL photos it goes to the correct location on my computer (D:) So the connection between the catalog and the computer seems to be correct.

imagesbyvanjaAuthor

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I have taken a copy of the current LR catalog and renamed it - just in case!

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