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exclamation point with black circle->corrupt image files in LR, how to fix?

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April 5, 2020
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Hi,

For the first time I have about 30 images that have an exclamation point in a black circle. It is not the white exclam point that makes you point LR to the correct location of the file. The images say that the file is corrupt and can not be edited. They can not be opened in pictures or photoshop. Adobe support tried to make a new catalog and reimport from the location on the hard drive and that didn't work either. I saw online that someone said it could be fixed by opening the photos in a new file. I don't exactly see what that means as I don't see how to open LR images in a "new file". Has anyone experienced this and found a fix? Does anyone know how to keep this from happening again? I've never had this happen before. Images from the same session are fine. Not sure why only about 40 are affected. Also, on the day I imported them a couple weeks ago they were fine and I was able to edit and use them. Same card, same camera as I always use and have used since then. Any help is appreciated!

chris

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jpcgracz

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I also had this problem. LR could not show the image, yet I could physically see it in Win Explorer. The root cause was a bad color profile that was applied to the image. To fix it, I opened the image in Photoshop. PS immediately reports the bad profile and asks if you want to open the file anyways. Do so. Then go into Edit -> Assign Profile... and choose an appropriate one for your image.

Go back to LR and delete the image from the catalog (do NOT delete from disk). Then re-import the photo by re-syncing the folder. Problem solved. Hopefully this is helpful to others.

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hansmrotzek

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I had this problem after copying a complex preset form one photo to the next. LR Classic 14.5 would not display these photos in full resolution anymore (if at all). The raw-files were not corrupted, which could be easily shown by opening them with other programs than LR.
This fixed my (Adobe's...) problem quickly: I sent all 'unreadable' photos from within LR to Photoshop using the ordinary context menu in LR, saved every single one in Photoshop without any further handling and returned them to LR.
All former processing in LR was included - which saved me a lot of time.

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Felix5FBF

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Hey there!

I had the same issue and was able to fix it by recovering the files from my nas. The problem poped up after redirecting old photos from the nas to LR. Files were corrupted but I was able to restore them from the other mirror of the NAS RAID. Maybe that can help the one or other person.

Cheers!

dj_paige

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"I have about 30 images that have an exclamation point in a black circle. It is not the white exclam point that makes you point LR to the correct location of the file. The images say that the file is corrupt and can not be edited"

The files are corrupt and cannot be used. You need to restore backups of these photos. You also need to run diagnostics on your hard disk (the one with the photos) because it may be starting to malfunction.

Just Shoot Me

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Screen Shot Please.

I personally have never seen, or don't remember seeing, an Exclamation mark in a Black Circle.

A Exclamation mark in a segmented square yes but not in a Black circle.

Try looking here.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/multiple-lightroom-errors/m-p/10111611?page=1

chrisn74356764Author

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this is the exclamation point and also posted is the message at the top of the image. This error will not direct you to redirect LR to the image location. Never seen this before and not sure why it's only on about 30 of the images from that day and not on the rest from that day.

chrisn74356764Author

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The files got corrupted because of a Hardware Fault. About the only hardware is the drive and or the cable connecting the drive to your computer.

In my many many years of using a computer and my many many years of using LR and taking digital images I have never had any files become corrupted on there own. It is always caused by a hardware problem.

And before you say it "It Is NOT LR that corrupted them".

I don't know if it was in this particular instance, but my computer sometimes takes forever to import photos. After it was done "importing photos" and when it was on the "2 processes in progress" portion of the import process I finally stopped it. I don't at all remember if that was associated with these photos in question here--I just recall I did do that one time in the past--but if it had been, would that be a cause they were corrupt? I'm just trying to think of different possibilities.

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