New install of V12 lead to Catalog not showing all previous Folders

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October 19, 2022
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I rn Win 10 n y C. I installed the new V12 and in the process updated my Catalog. Now when I open LR only 12 or so random folders appear. My origianl catalog held 430,062 files contained in folders dated by year from 1999-2022. None of these folders show up now. I have tried three times to convert my original catalog to V12 without success. Any ideas how I can restore my folders?

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dj_paige

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I have tried three times to convert my original catalog to V12 without success.

Please consider the possibility that you are trying to convert the wrong catalog. Search (using your operating system's search feature) all folders in all disks for files whose name ends with .LRCAT and try opening ones with very recent dates.

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silver506Author

Participant

I have done that. I tried the most recent Catalog, then the next most recent, and finally the last most recent. I had the same results each time.

GoldingD

Legend

Do not use LrC to open the correct catalog at this point. Instead use your Windows File Explorer, navigate to the drive and folder the catalog is in, the .lrcat file, double click on it.

This is a diagnostic move, to see if LrC has fouled up on remembering the correct catalog(s)

Possibility that the oreference file is corrupt.

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richardplondon

Community Expert

Might you have something (accidentally, perhaps) typed into the "Filter Folders" box at the top of the Folders panel?

Do all your photos show in Catalog / All Photographs view, or in any Collections etc you have set up?

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silver506Author

Participant

All filters are off. None show active. All my photos appear to show up in Catalog. All 430,062 of them! The folders that they are in just don't populate in the window for the external drive containing them. Maybe that volume of images might take a while to populate?

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richardplondon

Community Expert

Take a photo in a Collection or in All Photographs view, right click and choose Go to Folder in Library - do you then see this photo together with the other photos of the same folder?

Do you see more than one drive volume presented in the Folders panel - and if so, have you looked inside the other volumes present?

Another idea which can be safely carried out: make a fresh Catalog, do the Import from Another Catalog command, and merge in all the contents of your normal Catalog. This will re-create all the same imported files and their master and virtual-copy edited versions, any collections, history etc within the new context. See if it all behaves properly there (caution: this whole trial Catalog can be simply removed if you don't want to go forward with it, as can the other one you've got the problem with - but both currently SHARE in the use of the same source files so don't delete any images in cleanup).

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