Newest pictures not showing up

Report · Mar 27, 2017

Hi,

I use Lightroom to water mark my clothing pictures that I sell. Usually when I sign in my newest pics that Ive uploaded to my computer are there so that I can import them and then export them with a water mark. This last time I uploaded pics, I cant find them in lightroom. It only has my pictures files up to 3/24 when I also uploaded pictures on 3/26. Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening? Thank you!

~ Jessica

Report · Mar 27, 2017

If you go to the library module and choose Previous Import in the left-hand panel you should see your 3/26 images. Then you can right-click on one of those images and choose the option to go to the folder in library. That will add those to your folder tree. You will probably have to search by file name to find the 3/24 images.

Report · Mar 31, 2017

Hi Jim! Rather than "this will add them to your folder tree", I think you mean "this will take you to the folder that these photos reside in" - they are already in the folder tree just by virtue of having been imported.

Report · Apr 01, 2017

No, that isn't what I meant. But then maybe my Lightroom behaves a little differently. I find that sometimes new imports aren't immediately added to the folder tree. They are in the Previous import, but don't show in the folder tree until I import another set of new images. Of course, you probably use the "real" OS for Lightroom. I'm using Windows 10.

Report · Apr 02, 2017

Sorry I assumed incorrectly, Jim - I have never seen this on Windows or Mac, and I have never had a student experience it either.

Report · Mar 31, 2017

Hi Jessica, can you clarify this for me? Are you manually copying your images from your memory card / camera to your computer before you open Lightroom, and then importing into Lightroom, or in Lightroom's Import dialog do you select your memory card and have Lightroom automatically copy them to your computer and import them into Lightroom? It's not clear to me whether you only manually copied 3/26 to your computer, or whether you imported them into LR as well.

If the latter, and if choosing Previous Import in the Catalog panel in the top left in the Library module doesn't take you to them, you can either go directly to the Folders panel and look for the shoot, or you can do a filter by date to find all photos with that date: choose All Photographs in the Catalog panel, go to Grid view (G), click on Metadata in the center above the grid, and in the first column choose Date from the dropdown and drill down to 3/26. If you don't see that date listed, then these photos have not been imported into LR (or your camera's date isn't set correctly.) When you're done viewing photos from this date, to turn the filter off click on "All Dates" at the top of the list of dates and then above that next to Metadata click on None.