"The File Could Not Be Found"

Having two versions o Bridge and Photoshop isn't going to accomplish anything unless you have some reason for having them. In fact, it could cause confusion because the older version requires older versions of Camera Raw.

I'm still curious about how you are using Bridge with Lightroom. Looking at your images in Bridge is not going to enable you to examine the work you have performed using Lightroom because Bridge isn't going to read the Lightroom catalog. Bridge is a companion for Photoshop.

A few points, might explain why we were a bit confused perhaps argumentative, and at least one of you mysteries explained.

First the latter. Bridge would have been automatically updated when Photoshop was updated.

As for the concern of why you were addressing Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW while bringing up a Lightroom Classic issue.

Simply, it drives some of us to no end when people use Bridge for data asset management, then use Lightroom Classic for post processing. We so no need for the supurflous Bridge, Too complex, unnessecary, just accomplish the data access management (DAM) in Lightroom classic

And some cannot get thru their mind that the seperate Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) application/plugin has nothing to do around Lightroom Classic as the code in ACR is internal to Lightroom Classic, in fact Lightroom Classic is ecentally ACR in steroids.

So we make assumptions.

Glad things are working.

... To davidg / Jim Hess / r_lw338;

... Soooo, as I mentioned in my original post / nothing physically changed on my computer. Nothing.

The single difference was the UPDATE(S) that were pushed out by ADOBE that I have not used since APRIL 2019, that I accepted and installed or updated ... whichever is the more correct phraseology. After doing so was when I discovered the issue of not being to see any of the images on the drive they were actually physically residing on. In fact - AFTER the update(s) LR pointed to another physical drive which was curious because the images were NEVER on that drive ... which is why LR said that "The File Could Not Be Found".

What I ended up doing was re-importing the images from the correct physical drive back into LR ... and lo and behold ... there they were all sorted and containing all of the edit data and meta data information stored as it should have been since the last time I used the software. Apparently the update caused the issue, though fortunately ... it resolved with little more than a slight disruption in the process.

As they say ... "Alls well ... "

Regarding the rest of the questions that I asked back at the beginning ... with regard to the 2 copies of PS and the 2 copies of BRIDGE: "Should" I just remove the older versions of each of them and be done with it? I have not done so because I was (am) unsure whether or not the doing so would further screw up my now properly working versions LR & BRIDGE.

AS for the CAMERA RAW ... It installed with the other two at the time of my original purchase of CREATIVE CLOUD back in December of last year. Didn't know there was an issuie with that Jim Hess. I just assumed it was supposed to be there, since it always has been. However, with LR onboard ... having CAMERA RAW does seem a bit redundant.

To each of you that replied, Thank you and ... if I can return the favour, I'll be happy to try.

p.s. I've included an image of the CC configuration I currently have running, as illustrated by the ADOBE CC menu ... or whatever it is called. It is what shows up onscreen when I click on the CC icon on my desktop.

Cheers & Merry Christmas: Jay S.

Has the identity of the external hard drive changed? In other words, has the name of the hard drive changed, or has the drive letter designation changed?

I have the same problem. I updated Lightroom this week and went to work on some files that I had used just before the update. Everything on my external drive shows up in thumbnails and in Library, but when I move to the develop module, I get the same message, "The file could not be found." 

I can, however, open, modify and save the very same files in Photoshop, so it isn't a computer or hard drive problem, but rather some adjustment needs to be made in LR. I wonder if it's a bug that was introduced with the latest (version 9.1) 'upgrade?' 

I've tried to 'find the folder,' creeate a new catalog and even go back to an old catalog, thinking that if it works, I can simply re-import the images that I've added since. Nothing helps.

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm