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May 11, 2020
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?:0: attempt to index field 'rootFile' (a nil value)

  • May 11, 2020
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Hello

I have 3817 "pictures" that appear grey, with no information (no metadata, no preview : nothing). I cannot do anything with these picture : none erasing option is working. When I chose one, it just does nothing : the grey rectangle is still there.

So, I installed Find Duplicates 2 plugin to scan for corrupted files, and it found the same 3817 grey pitcures. When I look at the plugin log file, the error in the Subject appears (?:0: attempt to index field 'rootFile' (a nil value)).

I tried creating a new catalog, and I have no problem importing or deleting some pictures. But When I try to import from the other catalog, it stops after importing some pictures.

I really do not know what to do...

I have 142k picture, lot of them were modified using previous versions of Lightroom, I dont want to loose my changes but I would like to get rid of these corrupted entries in my database.

I read a lot of articles about this error message, but each time it does not seem to be the same problem : people are managing to delete (at least one by one) their corrupted files. But I cannot do anaything.

Does someone can help me ?

Thank you very much

 

My configuration :

Version Lightroom Classic: 9.2.1 [ 202004070813-7699d98a ]
Licence: Creative Cloud
Paramètre de langue: fr-FR
Système d'exploitation : Mac OS 10
Version : 10.15.4 [19E287]
Architecture de l'application : x64
Nombre de processeurs logiques: 16
Vitesse du processeur : 3,6 Ghz
Version SQLite: 3.30.1
Mémoire intégrée : 65 536,0 Mo

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Correct answer Rob_Cullen

Post your question at this link where an Adobe Rep (maybe Rikk Flohr) will see your problem-

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/blank-thumbnails-showing-up-in-all-photographs-only

 

 

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 12, 2020

Post your question at this link where an Adobe Rep (maybe Rikk Flohr) will see your problem-

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/blank-thumbnails-showing-up-in-all-photographs-only

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
Participant
May 13, 2020

Thank you WobertC,

I sent a post there under the Procedure of Rikk Flohr, and I hope he will respond.

His post is 8 months old...

Regards

Participant
May 22, 2020

Hello

After sending a message as you suggested me, I received an aswer from Rikk. As he was inviting me to do, I sent him my catalog. After some mails he and the team finally successed in repairing my catalog.

My problem is solved now : I have no more ghost images in my catalog.

Thank you for your suggestion.

Regards.