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October 1, 2022
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Pictures got lost when moving to another folder

  • October 1, 2022
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When I moved many pictures from my "Import"-folder the destination folder using the LR-move-selected-picture-to-folder-function an error-message popped up ("image is missing").

Then all the picture in the import-folder where marked as missing. The thumbnails got the file-is-missing-mark.

The pictures are also not shown in the destination folder. When I start the synch-folder-funtion, it comes up with 240 picture to import, but nothing happens. No change after that operation.

Checking the folder with the Windows-Explorer I find all the pictures in the destination-folder, but LRC is not getting it.

Any idea, what I can do?

Kind regards from Hamburg
Dietmar

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F. McLion
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F. McLionCommunity Expert
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October 2, 2022

Ordner synchronisieren ist der falsche Weg.

Hast du die Dateien im Explorer verschoben? Best practice ist alle Dateimanipulationen in Lightroom zu machen.

Hast du an den Bildern bereits gearbeitet oder sind die noch unbearbeitet?

 

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d.gilles@web.de
d.gilles@web.deAuthor
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October 2, 2022

Das Problem fing damit an, dass ich rund 240 Bilder über LR vom Import-Ordner nach einigen ersten Bearbeitungen (Bewertung, Stichwörter) in den Zielordner verschieben wollte.
Das hatte ich schon tausende Male erfolgreich gemacht. Dieses Mal blieb es wo oben gezeigt hängen und auch ein späteres synchronieren findet zwar zunächst Bilder, aber dann wieder doch nicht - wie oben im 2. und 3. Screenshot.

d.gilles@web.de
d.gilles@web.deAuthor
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October 2, 2022

Ich hatte das gestern auch kurz zuvor mit einem anderen Foto-Satz und -Ordner ohne Probleme machen können.
Ich habe kurz überlegt, ob ein "&" im Ordnernamen das Problem sein könnte, aber ich habe auch andere Ordnernamen mit "&" und dabei keine Probleme.

J
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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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October 1, 2022

What happens when you do a locate on a missing image and point to the correct image location where it was moved?

d.gilles@web.de
d.gilles@web.deAuthor
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October 1, 2022

That works. But is there a faster way than to do that with each of the 240 pictures induvidually?

J
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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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October 1, 2022

That is a good sign. You can try doing a update folder location on the folder the "missing" images are all in and point to the new folder. That should update all their locations and remove the old folder from the Lightroom folder panel.

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