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sherit85971812
Inspiring
October 28, 2020
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Retrieving files that are not in a catalog.

  • October 28, 2020
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Hi there! I have been uploading files into Lightroom Classic for over a year, so I have over 1,000 files uploaded. Recently I started to create catalogs for my files. Now I can't exit or quit a catalog to locate the files that are NOT in catalogs. When I quit LC and then open LC, the same catalog automatically opens up. I don't want the catalog(s) to open, I want to open and view the files that are not in catalogs. Thanks!

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dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
October 28, 2020

I am confused. Lightroom Classic catalogs only show the photos that have been imported. The files that are not in a catalog have to be found by your operating system.

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sherit85971812Author
Inspiring
October 28, 2020

Thanks! So how do I exit the catalog so that I can view the OS files again?

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
October 28, 2020

File->Exit.

 

I still don't know what your goal is here. Do you want to Import the photos that are not in your catalog into the catalog? Is that what you are trying to do?

 

If you have only a single catalog, and are brave, you can synchronize folders and then photos that are not in the catalog will be imported. (I say "if you are brave" because synchonize will remove photos from the catalog if they are no longer in the folder as shown by the operating system). And this method has major drawbacks if you have more than catalog (which is usually not a good idea anyway).

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