Catalog is missing everything from an external drive

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January 17, 2023
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Some time ago, in order to save disk space on c:, I moved historical images from travel to an external drive.

I've only worked on current images (all on c:) since then until today I wanted to see if I had images in Shutterfly that I hadn't downloaded (prior to Shutterfly shutting down access)

What I found was that in my LR catalog, the entire content of the external drive was missing from LR!!!

The original files are there....but if I just import them, I'll lose all my modifications done in LR. Disaster!

Help!

Windows

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Jim Wilde

Community Expert

How did you move the historical images to the external drive? From inside Lightroom, or using File Explorer outside Lightroom?

A screenshot of the Folders Panel in LrC would probably be useful at this stage.

Newmarket2Author

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Not certain, but I've known to do file movement from within LR for quite a while.....so, I think that's what I did.

I also think there might have been an upgrade of LR from 11 to 12 AND a move to a new PC after I moved folders to the external drive.

The images are on Elements (D:)....it's the catalog entries that are missing

The screenshot is of my current

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

I think I've solved the problem.

I'm able to go into the catalog, open a folder in F:, right click and select FIND MISSING FOLDER...; and click on its current/correct location.

LR then moves the catalog foler from F: to D:, which is where I want it.

OK, sounds like you've sorted it yourself. Well done.

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