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March 27, 2025
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Importing from another Catalog

  • 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?

 

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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Legend
March 27, 2025

@weekleyba 

 

Glad to help and that you have it sorted now.

drtonybCorrect answer
Legend
March 27, 2025

@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.

weekleybaAuthor
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2025

Wow!  You're my hero!

It worked perfectly.

Thank you Thank you!!!!

Legend
March 27, 2025

@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?

 

weekleybaAuthor
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2025

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.

weekleybaAuthor
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2025

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

 

weekleybaAuthor
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2025

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?