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Images from LR imported into PS don't return to LR

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
August 19, 2022
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Hi, I use Lightroom and/or Photoshop almost every day. Suddenly, when I try to send a photo from Lightroom into Photoshop to edit, I'm running into a problem. Here's what it happens: the image opens in Lightroom and I make my changes. I save and close the file, but it doesn't appear back into Lightroom, like it used to. I check everywhere in the currently opened job in Lightroom to see if it sorted weird; it's not there. So, I check the folder on my harddrive, just to be sure it saved, and it did as a .tif file. So, I try to drag it into LR. Lightroom then tells me that it's already imported the .tif file, but it hasn't imported any of the rest of the images that I currently culling in Lightroom. If I try to sychronize the folder, it removes all of my current images, reloads them and the new .tif image, and puts then in a separate folder (with the exact same name) in my folder naviagtion menu. I click "Show Parent Folder" and it does nothing to connect them. I updated all of my Adobe apps, but that didn't help. Is my catalog messed up? Is it a bug? How do I fix this?

I am currently using an iMac, Cataline 10.15.7, Adobe Lightroom Classic 11.5, and Adobe Photoshop 2022 v. 23.5.

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SusannaJ23Author

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So, I appreciate all the replies. I've been on the phone with Adobe support for about an hour. After trying multiple things, they finally had me start an entirely new catalog and it seems to have solved the problem.

Michael J. Hoffman

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Could you show a screen shot of your expanded Folders panel, showing the separate folders with the same name?

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SusannaJ23Author

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This folder "OneYear_080522" is in the exact same location on my harddrive. When I click on the top one and click "Show Parent Folder" hoping to merge them, nothing happens. When I click on "Show in Finder", it appears to be the same folder with the exact same path-

Michael J. Hoffman

Community Expert

It does not show a parent folder. If I click "Show Parent Folder", nothing happens. If you look in Finder, on my hard drive, the parent foder is the same.

We can't see it in your Finder snapshot, but it looks to me like there may be another "OneYear_080522" folder at the same level as the "Scow_Maveric..." folder.

Can you scroll up in your Finder view, and show the folders starting with the letter "O"?

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Sounds like you are faced with the 'Capitalisation problem'. Here's how to fix it:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/capitalization-catalog-error/

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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SusannaJ23Author

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So, I haven't heard of this error before. But, I don't see a capitalization difference anywhere. Also, this happens everytime I now try to edit a file into Photoshop. It's not an isolated issue. I simply cannot bring the file back into LR.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

@SusannaJ23 wrote:

So, I haven't heard of this error before. But, I don't see a capitalization difference anywhere. Also, this happens everytime I now try to edit a file into Photoshop. It's not an isolated issue. I simply cannot bring the file back into LR.

Even if you haven't heard of it, it's a well known issue. There are threads about it here too. You will not always see the two folders in Lightroom, however. Sometimes the capitalisation problem folder is further up in your folder hierarchy, and Lightroom shows only one of them.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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