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FreddyPaparazzi
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January 19, 2018
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Missing folders in database of LR Classic

  • January 19, 2018
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Hello, this might seem a common error, but I don't think it is: the folders several layers of nested onesà are missing in the thr database of LR. For the entire disk, LR indicates over 80000 pictures, which is correctnut in the folders most of them are missing in the LR but not on disk çnew location).

All this happened after moving LR and catalog to a new computer and the folder with all the pictures tu a external disk.

I can solve this  by looking for a picture for each and every date for which I ever imported at least one. Once that done I can locate the new location. Inconve,eance is that this is a lot of work due to the nimber of files. And on top of the work this solution is not perfect: after this manipulation LR shows only one level of  folders for thr so found pictures.

Can anyone give me a bettter solution ?

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priyankas72354167
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priyankas72354167
Adobe Employee
January 19, 2018

Hi

Please check the link How to find missing photos in Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC 

Regards

Priyanka

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FreddyPaparazziAuthor
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January 19, 2018

i, rhznks for answerin,g my question, but as I tried to explzin I midding flders in LR not files. Well I'm issing the files containredf in those folders mising in LR but the major problem is de folder structure in the LR catalog that is incomplete.

A sample may clarify thinfs I guess:

D:\mnt\PHOTOS\2000\2000-01\2000-01\01\img-00001.jpg     (full path name)

this file lives on the right place outside of LR. In Lr this file can only be found under the tab \mount, where it is to be found, bit with the more common problem of pointing to the old location which is no longer on-line.

reards

Freddy

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FreddyPaparazziAuthor
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January 20, 2018

I suggested 2000 because correcting a parent folder is more efficient than correcting its child folders one after another.

If the parent folder 2000 isn't visible, try right clicking the photo's folder - 01 in your example - and choosing Show Parent Folder. If it works, you can repeat this step on 2000-01 and eventually up to 2000, which you can then fix with right click and Find Missing Folder.

Above all, please do not use Folder > Synchronize.


Hello,

I've been trying fixing the catalog. Under Folders on the left pane of LR I selected the mount point of my folder containing my photo's. And yes there I see 80000+files. That's the right number. I then selected a photo from the grid. One dated in the year 2010, a year completely missing on the left panel. I then located that picture and yes the left pane now shows folders

2010

2010-12

2010-12-11 with 2 (out of 58) pictures ?

I located another photo, now dated july 2010 with result the appearance of folders

2010-07

2010-07-01 => 127 photos (out of 130)

2010-07-24 => 7 photos      (correct)

It seems to me that if I continue this way I'll have a lot of work to do without getting all pictures in place.

regards

Freddy

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