For whatever reason, LRC will not load (or has not retained) photos from before 2019. I couldn't find a photo with a question mark under Elements X, and couldn't find X on any other drive. So, woe to me, I again imported folder X, and here is what I see....
You'll note the import is not "valid" and that there are folders with question marks under Folder Z (the folder on the main computer drive.) I right-clicked on a couple of these and selected "find missing file." I selected the corresponding folder under drive X and got a message saying that folder already exists would you like to merge the two? Well, I cancelled since I didn't know if that was appropriate. Too, none of these photo files are stored currently on drive Z, so I just delete them?
I'll show you today's catalog....
Ain't it sumpin? So kindly indicate how I might recover the files and folders that we saw a couple days ago, which must exist somewhere.
Cheers?
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Regarding the folders with the ? icon, here is the solution: https://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm
Importing is never a solution. It should only be used the first time you get the photos onto your computer to allow LrC to work with them. After that, never import the same photos into LrC again.
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So I've tried to find all the missing folders (although I haven't moved the folders yet, as per instructions). I haven't changed anything, because the changes I make without your suggestions always add to my problem with LRC. I must admit I use LRC only for the DAM quality, so I'm not familiar with the program at all. I do all my photo operation in PShop, as I did so for years and fine LR's develop page cramped. I do, however, add metadata (in LRC) to all the photos I Import, just to be sure the metadata corresponds to that in PShop.
So, I have several posts here....
1.) An indication that I was unable to merge successfully the folders in Z still showing. It would be very helpful if LR could recover the Maine Immigrants folders as I can't find them anywhere in PShop and they are very important in some of the investigational work I have done.
Continuing from the above, as I couldn't add anything there. ?
Anyway, the overlay above is what I see when I push "See Catalog." When I open Lightroom folder I see this....
Which seems to be the catalog I thought I had loaded earlier. When I open "New Catalog", I see the catalog I had entered some time ago.....
I have no idea what cat24.2 is above...
Aaaaand, this is the page I get in PShop when selecting Drive X....
The background is Drive X. I've selected the lower of the two 2013 folders, which is what you can see in the back; there are two 2013s, one of which I cannot access and get the message that is in the foreground above. The same is true with the two listings for BAB Photos.
I appeal to your help, although I can see how you might resist :). I must admit I've recently checked for alternative photo DAMs, but everywhere I checked puts LRC as their number one choice. So I'm not touching anything in LRC until you make some suggestions, and I must apologize for creating this mess on my own. Cheers, (I hope)
Thanks for your time
1) The catalog IS all messed up, but how do I change that to something that will work? You make no suggestions?
Also, as I mentioned, I can't find the photos under Maine Immigrants. Anywhere. Too, trying to match the two other folders under drive Z didn't work. Any ideas on how to fix that?
2) I do not have two E drives; I have two versions of E drive inside the software of LRC. I re-imported the E drive, which apparently is a no-no. So LRC is seeing two E drives but they do not exist. Here's a print screen of "My Computer"....
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