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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 21, 2018

I don't know what went wrong. I wasn't watching you as you tried to do this.

I guess I still don't feel you have grasped the point, which I will make one more time and then let it die. The Folders are not missing, they are present, but in a different place in your LR folder hierarchy than where you think they should be. And you don't need the folders to be in the proper hierarchy anyway. You can find all the photos you want without the folders; just use the Filter bar instead of folders.


I agree with what you are saying, but I want LR to work the way it was designed for. After all what's going wrong can't be nothing more then a couple of links  that were not updated correctly. I'm going to try to read te catalog with SQLite Database Browser to see what's really wrong. Possibly that will give me a clue about how wrong the links are.

Thanks for trying to help me.

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