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When I pull up a catalog, all the pictures have question marks on them and it says they cannot be found.
I am panicked! I had scanned pictures from my grandmother in the early 1900's! That is the only record now!
Can someone please help?
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Your images are 100% safe (MOSTLY). The catalogue is nothing more than a listing of the images, and where they are located, along with a thumbnail of each image.
The question mark? Typically means you moved the images--- you changed their location from where they where when you created the catalogue they were in.
AN EXAMPLE OF THAT: The images were on your main hard drive. You copied all the images and pasted them onto a different hard drive.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE: The images were on a thumb drive, and an external hard drive, and you unpluged / disconnected whatever they were on.
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If I understand you correctly, you have moved your catalog folder from one computer to another. The catalog does not contain the photos themselves. I suggest you follow the instructions in this HelpX Article which explains how to backup and restore a catalog (and photo files) from one computer to another.