I am working with the latest version of LR on an Acer desktop. When moving my target catalog to an external hard drive, I seem to have created a situation in which my exported catalog is nested within another exported catalog of the same name. In the process however a years worth of work can’t be found in target catalog (which is the one I use and import to and which appears in last of the screen shots as Catalog 13.3This became an issue when I tried to locate the files in the catalog, found that they bore the telltale Photo missing icon but then I located them in folders did not have the telltale question mark. Here is the first screen shot showing the Exported Catalog which conspicuously does not include the year 2021:Notice how 2021 is missing both in Explorer and in the left hand folder listThe next image comes from Explorer where I have clicked on the folder in the screen shot above:Notice that there are three folders for 2021 imagesAnd by clicking on the folder entitled LRC Catalog at the bottom of the Screen shot above we find the target catalog 13.3 which is the one I use depicted belowI have two concerns, the two exported catalogs are out of sync and I want to “merge” them or at least get rid of duplication without losing any images, and 2nd to bring the 2021 images back into the target catalog without reimporting them. Hope this makes sense, feeling a bit lost. And as always so grateful for the community’s help.

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I am working with the latest version of LR on an Acer desktop. When moving my target catalog to an external hard drive, I seem to have created a situation in which my exported catalog is nested within another exported catalog of the same name. In the process however a years worth of work can’t be found in target catalog (which is the one I use and import to and which appears in last of the screen shots as Catalog 13.3

This became an issue when I tried to locate the files in the catalog, found that they bore the telltale Photo missing icon but then I located them in folders did not have the telltale question mark.

Here is the first screen shot showing the Exported Catalog which conspicuously does not include the year 2021:

Notice how 2021 is missing both in Explorer and in the left hand folder list

The next image comes from Explorer where I have clicked on the folder in the screen shot above:
Notice that there are three folders for 2021 images
And by clicking on the folder entitled LRC Catalog at the bottom of the Screen shot above we find the target catalog 13.3 which is the one I use depicted below

I have two concerns, the two exported catalogs are out of sync and I want to “merge” them or at least get rid of duplication without losing any images, and 2nd to bring the 2021 images back into the target catalog without reimporting them. Hope this makes sense, feeling a bit lost. And as always so grateful for the community’s help.

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