Importing from another Catalog

[weekleyba]

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?

[weekleyba]

I'll add, after importing the one folder, the collection for the folder now has the edits in it, where before it was empty.

When I trying to locate the file that is in the collection, I get the following pop-up.

How do I fix this?

[drtonyb]

@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?

[weekleyba]

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.

[weekleyba]

Here's how I've imported from another catalog.

[drtonyb · Accepted solution]

@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.

[weekleyba]

Wow!  You're my hero!

It worked perfectly.

Thank you Thank you!!!!

[drtonyb]

@weekleyba 

Glad to help and that you have it sorted now.