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If you are talking about the Filmstrip, turn the badges on.
1. Are you looking for "!" in Grid view or in the filmstrip?
Either.
2. Does the menu command Library > Find All Missing Photos correctly find the missing files?
Yes, but the ability to relink the missing photos is gone.
I hesitate to post a screenshot because of privacy (these are corporate headshots with employee names visible). Can I provide the information you're asking for some other way? Or can I DM you a screenshot instead?
After renaming the photos using a third-party tool (to batch rename them), Lightroom definitely does not link to the photos. Naturally, given that the filenames in the LR database no longer match the actual filenames. I can confirm this in three ways:
- Trying to export any of those images results in the expected "originals missing" message.
- Trying to move these images results in a "originals missing" message.
- Trying to open these images in an editor doesn't work because all of the editors I've defined in LR are dimmed and not clickable.
But the exclamation mark that used to appear that allows relinking each photo to the LR database does not appear.
I've used LR to relink renamed photos many times over the years. I'm either having a days-long brain fart or this no works in this version of LR.
Lightroom can still relink missing images, nothing has changed. The smart previews are the problem. If you have smart previews (and your first screenshot shows that you do), then the exclamation point will not show if the original image is missing. If you rename photos outside of Lightroom however, then the only way to reconnect them is doing it one by one by clicking on the exclamation point... So it seems that the only way to solve this is by first deleting the smart previews, so the missing images will show exclamation points again.
Hmmm. Okay, that does appear to be the case. It's confusing on why this is the case except that when I've renamed photos and updated the LR link it's been after/during a tethered shoot on Computer 1 so I suspect the Smart Previews did not exist. In this case, I exported as catalog from Computer 1 and imported into LR on Computer 2. Presumably, the Smart Previews got built during the import process. That explains why I haven't run into this before.
How do I delete the Smart Previews for just the collection I'm working on? According to https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-smart-previews.html, "in the Library or Develop module, for a photo that has a Smart Preview, click the status Original + Smart Preview below the Histogram, and then click Discard Smart Preview." Since there's only a Smart Preview, the option to remove the Smart Preview doesn't exist.
I'd rather not brute force removing all the Smart Previews in my catalog unless that's the only option. I'm hoping there's a smarter option.
Didn't you read the subsequent posts?
Didn't you read my replies to the subsequent posts? (Said in the same tone as your question.)
It turns out you do not have to delete the smart previews after all. You can click on the smart preview icon to get the same dialog that you would get if you clicked the exclamation mark.
If you do want to delete them after all, then just select all images where you want to delete the smart preview, and then choose 'Library - Previews - Discard Smart Previews' (the text could be slightly different, I can't check that right now because I type this on my iPad).
Okay, good. I didn't realize that I can select images before using the Discard Smart Previews option.
Thank you.
Your thumbnail is showing the Smart Preview Icon (little rectangle) and when LrC shows that icon it does not show the Missing Photo icon as it assumes the file is offline. If you click that icon it will bring up the Missing Photo dialog
Clicking the Smart Preveiw icon will bring up the Missing Photo Dialog.
By @Bob Somrak
OK, that is good to know.
Yes, clicking the Smart Preview does present the Missing Photo dialog. Now we're making progess.
But.. is there not a smarter way of doing this than clicking every one of 200+ photos individually to relink them?
By @FrostyOfTheNorth
The smarter way is not to rename images outside of Lightroom. You can relink missing folder hierarchies in one go, but if you renamed images then you'll have tovrelink them one by one.
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