Importing from another Catalog

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March 27, 2025
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My current catalog has the photos but not collections that were made.

I've imported from another catalog just one folder "2024-07-28 Jace SENIOR Pics"

In came in with the "?", as you can see below.

The D and E drives are external.

How do link the collection edits that are on the D drive to the actual photos on the E drive?

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Correct answer drtonyb

@weekleyba

With the backup done, in LrC, Remove all 110 photos from the "2024-07-28 Jace SENIOR Pics" folder on E drive. Select Remove from Lightroom, do not Delete from Disk. Then on D drive, Locate one of the missing photos on your E drive. LrC should then locate all of them on E drive. On D drive, you can then remove the missing "My RAW Photos" folder.

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drtonyb

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@weekleyba

Glad to help and that you have it sorted now.

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drtonybCorrect answer

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@weekleyba

With the backup done, in LrC, Remove all 110 photos from the "2024-07-28 Jace SENIOR Pics" folder on E drive. Select Remove from Lightroom, do not Delete from Disk. Then on D drive, Locate one of the missing photos on your E drive. LrC should then locate all of them on E drive. On D drive, you can then remove the missing "My RAW Photos" folder.

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weekleybaAuthor

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Wow! You're my hero!

It worked perfectly.

Thank you Thank you!!!!

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drtonyb

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@weekleyba

You refer to Collections, but I think you are actually referring to Folders.

First, make a backup of your current catalog before doing anything.

Once you have a backup, then you can proceed.

From what you are saying, the photos under Folder "2024-07-28 Jace SENIOR Pics" on E drive are unedited, while the (missing) photos under "2024-07-28 Jace SENIOR Pics" on D drive have edits. Is that correct?

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weekleybaAuthor

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I so confused on this...

The actual photo files are on E drive. But something happened in this catalog and my collection for some collections were empty. Still there but empty. So I thought I could use "Import from another Catalog" but when I did that, the folder on the D drive shows up and the collection that was empty now has the photos with edits in it but with the "!" next to each photo.