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lindai71880499
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October 2, 2023
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"FInd Nearby Missing Photos" isn't working in Lightroom V12

  • October 2, 2023
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I am helping to recover an absolute mess created when moving images from a Mac to a PC, all done outside of the Lightroom Catalogs. Everything is worst case scenario. I have about 8,000 images in about 300 folders that are missing but the folders are not missing. So I have to work at the image/file level, NOT the folders. When I select an image and "Locate" it, I have "Find nearby missing photos" selected. However that does not work - it just finds the one single image I had selected. I have to do each image in the folder individually, which is not feasible for almost 8,000 images. Does anyone have a way to make this work without doing each individual image? (In this specific case, the catalog is looking for the images in the root directory, when in fact they are all in subfolders off the root.) Very occasionally the "Find nearby missing photos" will work, but rarely. This is on a Windows 10 system, Lightroom V12.

Thanks for any help! Linda

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    DClark064
    DClark064
    Inspiring
    October 2, 2023

    Linda, When you say the folders are not missing, I take that to mean you have about 300 folders that show up in LR Library module but the files in the folders are there but shown as missing. I also assume in Windows Explorer the files are shown in the folders, and the files in the folders are the  same as the missing files in the LR LIbrary folders. 

     

    If the folders are present in the LR Library module I believe you can right click the folder and select "Update Folder Location...", and then select the location in the Explorer widow that opens.  Once that is done LR should update the Folder location and update the missing files that are in the folder and any subfolders and files in the subfolders.  That has worked for me when I move folders that may be full of files and subfolders without using LR to move them.

     

    I hope that helps.

     

     

     

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    lindai71880499작성자
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    October 2, 2023

    Thanks for the response. Yes, you are right that the folders are there and not shown as missing, just the files in the folders. And yes, in Exlorer the files are in the folders and are the same.

    Well, I tried to right click on one of the folders and Update the Location and it didn't seem to resolve anything. Then I did the same on what used to be the  higher level folder and now have a bunch of missing folders that I have to clean up. Some are ones that had missing files, some not. So I am not sure if I am ahead. Will resolve them all and see how many of my missing files are now resolved.

    But thanks, that is the kind of workaround I was looking for. I need to carefully watch what is happening.

    I was also wondering about moving all the folders outside of Lightroom, into a higher level folder,which will "break" any that have been resolved. But then all the folders would be "broken/missing" and maybe I could resolve all of them by clicking on the higher level folder. I am afraid to try anything drastic and make it worse!

    Thanks again, Linda

     

     

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 2, 2023

    In the Folders panel, make sure you see the parent. The folder issue might be higher up than what is currently shown in the panel.

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