No photos found

[SimonRhys]

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

[JP Hess]

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?

[SimonRhys]

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

[JP Hess]

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?

[SimonRhys]

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

[Joe Foe Toe]

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.

[SimonRhys]

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

[Joe Foe Toe]

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.