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New Here ,
Jul 21, 2018 Jul 21, 2018

Hi Everyone

This is my first post on these forums, so go gentle!

So I'm having an issue importing images into Lightroom, this hasn't been an issue before. I have dropped all the images from SD cards onto my external hard drive as I normally do and then import into Lightroom from there. But this time it hasn't worked and I can't figure out why! Please help!!

TIA

SimonRhys

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LEGEND ,
Jul 21, 2018 Jul 21, 2018

What happens when you try? Please describe your import process. Also, what exact version of Lightroom are you using, and what operating system are you using?

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New Here ,
Jul 21, 2018 Jul 21, 2018

Hi Jim

I hit the import button in light room and choose my source folder, then it says no photos found where you would normally see the photos appear.

Light room:7.4

OS: High Sierra 10.13.5

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LEGEND ,
Jul 21, 2018 Jul 21, 2018

Can you verify that the images are in that specific folder using Finder? Also, have ever tried importing directly from the card to your external hard drive?

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New Here ,
Jul 21, 2018 Jul 21, 2018

Yeah they are there.

I have just done this now and this works ok, so can work on the images, thank you.

But it is odd how I can't access them how I usually do?

Cheers

Simon

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Enthusiast ,
Jul 21, 2018 Jul 21, 2018

It's not clear what you did to make it work differently from what you usually do, so it's difficult to try to answer

what is/was wrong.

If they imported correctly from the card, I'd suggest that somehow there is a mismatch between the import source and where the files were actually located.

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New Here ,
Jul 22, 2018 Jul 22, 2018

I usually import the photos from the card onto my hard drive and then pull them into Lightroom. Which I know is probably a really backwards way of doing it. I guess I should import the images straight into Lightroom from the cards and then use Lightroom to organise where they go from there. I stupidly never learnt the 'correct' way to do things in Lightroom, I just wanted to start editing

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Enthusiast ,
Jul 22, 2018 Jul 22, 2018
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I used to go from card-to-disk-to-Lightroom too, so it can't be that stupid 😉  And really, it should work fine that way. I'll still guess you had some source/target mismatch of sorts - but the way you're soing it now is simpler workflow as long as it's working for you.

And while I hate to raise any red flags, I do want to note that if there were no mismatch, it could indicate file corruption, which could be a one-off, but also could mean drive or other strange corruption.

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