Synchronizing Folder finds "Missing" files that aren't missing.

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[Win 11 & LRClassic with all current updates.]

Upon synchronizing some folders, LR showed that a number of files were "Missing." However, the files are very much NOT missing. They are healthy, stable files that are located in precisely the right spot. And yet, no amount of Finding or Locating these files seems to convince LR of their presence. Recently, I've had this happen occasionally, but I could simply Remove the image from the Library, then immediately re-sync the folder. Problem fixed. (Not actually fixed, but a workaround, at least.)

However, the workaround is no longer working around. LR is insisting that files are Missing, and I am unable to convince it, otherwise.

I've been using LR since 1.0, so I'm pretty familiar with these things, but this one has me stumped. Hopefully, it's just me, and I am failing to see the obvious. Any help would be much appreciated.

PS: Now, on top of all that, I'm trying to include a series of explanatory images, but I'm being told that I've already reached my 100-image limit and will have to wait 24 hours. OK, but these 11 images are the only ones I've uploaded in the last year! So, what's going on, folks?

Here are the 11 images that broke Adobe... 😜

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1j6GwRlDw0FcNrcwCCZm3qIgIgB1twTZa?usp=sharing

Thanks for your help.

JohanElzenga · Accepted Answer

Your photo 9 shows what might be the problem. The images are on OneDrive, and it looks like they were syncing at the moment you took the screenshot. Lightroom often has problems with OneDrive, because it accesses files directly by following a path. If an image in that path is not immediately available because it is syncing, Lightroom will say it is missing.

dj_paige · Answer

Missing in what sense? When I look at your first photo, as far as I can see, Lightroom Classic does not think the photos are missing. Based on photo #1 and not the rest of your photos, why do you feel LrC thinks the photos are missing?

I'm guessing that LrC doesn't think these are missing in photo #1 because you have imported them accidentally into a different folder than you wanted to import them into (this is a common problem), and so LrC finds the photo in the different folder and doesn't report them as missing. Synchronizing will not fix this problem.

Please go through these allegedly missing photos one-by-one in LrC and note which folder they are stored in according to LrC metadata panel, and see if some are in a different folder than you thought they were in. (Do not look for the photos in your operating system for this purpose).

What 100 photo limit are you talking about?

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