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Felipe Osti
Felipe Osti
Participant
November 22, 2022
Question

Swaped Adobe folder to another hard drive, now all my photos are missing

  • November 22, 2022
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As the title says, I alrady tried resyching, everything I could have done, nothing worked so far.
It tells me to delete all m y photos and reimport them all? I mean, all my 60k photos?

Have anyone gone through this and found a work around?
I am kinda in panic here.

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Sameer K
Community Manager
Sameer KCommunity Manager
Community Manager
November 24, 2022

Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll help you figure this out.

 

Before you make any changes, log on to Lightroom Web (https://lightroom.adobe.com) & ensure everything is synced & backed up correctly. Any unsynced images & edits might be lost in correcting this.

 

This is a result of manually changing the location of the originals. Did you move the original folder to a different folder on the same drive or an external drive? Lightroom might not recognize changes done externally & as a result, show you what you're seeing. You can go to Preferences > Local Storage > Storage location for originals in Lightroom to set up Lightroom to use a custom location for orignals.

 

Thanks!
Sameer K

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