Hi, so, my photos live on an external drive. I just returned from a trip where all my photos were saving to my Home (myname>Pictures>2018) folder. So, in LR, it was looking for them in this Home folder. I just finished copying all the photos onto the external drive with the rest of them, but stupidly, I deleted the folders in my Home folder in LR, so while they live with the rest of the photos externally, that folder isn't synced. Importing the folders just seems to dupe the files. I can't think of any other way to bring those photos in to appear in LR folder section. It's almost like I just want LR to refresh the folder contents of my external drive.
Thanks, but I don't have the exclamation or question mark. According to LR, nothing's wrong. What I need to do is bring 8 folders that were linked internally and I stupidly moved to the external and deleted to be seen on the external. I need LR to rescan the folder and find those folders. If something like that is possible
If you Deleted the folders Inside of LR then you will need to Re-import them from the new location. But if you deleted them from inside LR then LR discarded any edits you made to those images.
So you are saying you can SEE those images in LR and they do not have an exclamation mark and there is not question mark on the folder/s. Is that correct?
Then they are imported and everything is fine. If you can see them right click on one and select "Show in Explorer or Finder" and also right click again and select "Go to Folder in Library".
Are they on the external drive, IE does Show in Finder/Explorer take you to the external drive?
Does Go to Folder in Library take to the correct folder in the LR Library module Folders section?
If they are not in LR how are they be duplicated? Oh do you mean on your hard drives? If so that is because you have selected COPY at the top of the import dialog when you should be selecting ADD at the top of that dialog window. Copy Copies them from one location to another and ADD just Adds them to the LR catalog file and leaves them whee they are stored on your drives.
Are your images organized all under one parent folder or are there sub-folders within a parent folder?
Do you have 'Do not import suspected duplicates' checked under File Handling when importing?
If your images are not in Lightroom anymore you can Add the images by clicking on the + icon in the Folders panel and navigate to the external drive, select the parent folder and choose. This will bring up the import dialog and you should be able to import again without any problems.
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