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Billy Vervain
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October 17, 2020
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Missing photos in Lightroom catalog

  • October 17, 2020
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I have just upgraded my PC and I copied the photos & catalog back to the HDD from my backup.

 

Unfortunately although I have opened the right catalog - and gone to the last backup from before I upgraded - Lightroom is under the impression that over 10,000 photos are missing from the catalog.  I have checked the path to the photo folder hierarchy is correct, it's an internal HDD so no problems with it not being online, and if I get LR Synchronize to show the missing photos they have their meta data intact.  However if I import from my phone it wants to reimport photos with a '-2' suffix to the file name.

 

There are also no warning indications in the grid, and 'Show in explorer' comes up with the right folder.  It's not all the photos either - it's 10,000-ish out of 34,000, and not all the photos in a given photo are 'missing' from the catalog.

 

Obviously a lot of work has gone into the meta data, I can't afford to lose that.

 

Suggestions?  This is LR 6.0 on W10x64.  Screen shot of the Synchronize popup is attached.

 

I have no idea how to fix this, 

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Billy VervainAuthor
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October 31, 2020

OK ideas from the Community have dried up.  I found it behaved correctly with a photo taken this morning so I've made sure all others on the phone are actually imported, and deleted all photos on the phone.  Hopefully it will be OK now.  Not an issue with the D-SLR as I usually delete everything from the memory card after importing.

 

Bizarre, annoying, and has taken time I could have better used elsewhere, but fixed in a cludgy sort of way.

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2020

The missing photos collection is a static collection. It does not automatically update itself. If running that menu only shows two missing photos, then that is what you have: only two missing photos.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Billy VervainAuthor
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October 17, 2020

That is not how it's behaving.  If I import photos from my phone then any that are in the folders get re-imported appending '-2' to the name.  Or have I lost a setting somewhere along the way?  I forgot to take a copy of the settings. 

 

On my camera I usually delete all the photos after importing, not so with the phone.

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 18, 2020

"That is not how it's behaving.  If I import photos from my phone then any that are in the folders get re-imported appending '-2' to the name."

 

That has nothing to do with 'missing' photos. The system adds '-2' to the name of a file, if another file with the same name already exists in that location. Don't re-import photos!

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Billy VervainAuthor
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October 17, 2020

BTW I see a similar question suggests using 'Library -> Find missing photos'.  It only finds 2!

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