Images not showing in Lightroom

[bb47793336]

I am new to Lightroom.  When in Lightroom and I go to add photos, I go to Photos on my iMac and select a folder, only about 8 images show up out of 200 in Lightroom.  I have never seen this happen on any software I have used.  Any help would be much appreciated.

[JohanElzenga]

What do you mean with "I go to Photos on my iMac and select a folder"? Photos is an application, made by Apple.

[bb47793336]

Sorry, I meant when I am in Lightroom and try to select a folder from

Photos App on my iMac to import into Lightroom, the folder which has 200

photos (files) only shows 8 photos. (files).

[JohanElzenga]

Sorry, but again it's not clear. "A folder from the Photos app"? Do you mean that you exported photos from the Photos app (into a folder) that you now want to import into Lightroom?

[bb47793336]

Sorry, I have the Lightroom app open. I click the + symbol on the upper left side to add photos to lightroom. It asks me to Browse photos. I click “Photos” which is a Mac App that has all my photos stored. I click on a Folder with 176 photos and only 81 photos show up in the Lightroom app. to choose from. 95 of the photos are not showing up from the Folder I selected.

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

bb47793336  wrote

Sorry,  I have the Lightroom app open.  I click the + symbol on the upper left side to add photos to lightroom.  It asks me to Browse photos.  I click “Photos” which is a Mac App that has all my photos stored.  I click on a Folder with 176 photos and only 81 photos show up in the Lightroom app. to choose from.  95 of the photos are not showing up from the Folder I selected.

You can't select the Photos app itself (which is in your Applications folder), so I assume you select the Photos library in your Pictures folder. That is the wrong way to do it. You cannot simply import images from the Apple Photos Library. What you need to do is use the menu 'File - Migrate Apple Photos Library'. Do that once to migrate all the images from Apple Photos to Lightroom, and then quit using Apple Photos. Only use Lightroom.