Missing photoes

[hallon8]

My mothercard failed and I had to buy a new computer. In the old one I had many phoes as RAW stored in different maps inside Lightroom. How is it possible to find them and move them in the same order in the new computer? I have already imported the Lightroom (CD) in the new computor.

Lars Ahlin

[AxelMatt]

Here you'll find a lot of informations what you can do:

Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/

Axel

[hallon8]

This does not help to solve the problem. It is not a singel photo that is missing it is all photos there are stored under Collection inside Lightroom and they are not stored at the harddisk. 

[Theresa J]

All images are stored on a hard drive, not inside of Lightroom. It sounds like your images were on the hard drive that failed. If so you lost those images unless you have a backup of the hard drive. If you have a back up of the failed drive let us know. We can help you recover the images.

[hallon8]

The reason for me to have an new computer is that the mother card failed not the hard drive. So all data on the hard drive have been moved to the new computor and all data are there but I cannot find all images that I have edit in Lightroom and shown in different maps (collections) in the Library. These images are in RAW (I always take my images in RAW). In my old computor I just open the Lightroom and in the Library I find all my images. I have download Lightroom once more on my new computor.

Some of these images I have earlier exported to the hard drive as JPEG and they are all there but I cannot find the one I had in the Lightroom Library.

[Theresa J]

It’s important to understand that images are not inside of Lr. Your images can be on any hard drive you chose, in any folder structure you set up. If you did not intentionally set up a specific directory for your images, then Lr would have put them in your pictures folder during the import from the camera or card reader.

Do a search on your computer for a pictures folder. You will have a new pictures folder on your new computer. Your images are probably in an older pictures folder, assuming everything from the old hard drive was copied to the new computer. Once you find the old pictures folder you can move the contents to the new pictures folder.

[joachims25232702]

Is this windows? This can then happen because LR puts your photos in some ridiculous tree structure below User unless you defined another path.

Did you change your user name? Then that tree will be different and LR will not find the raws. Search for one raw and check the folder where it is and the point LR to that folder.

[dj_paige]

You can follow these instructions to reconnect entire folders, or an entire hierarchy of folders (see Figure 4 and related text).

Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders