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Fri, Dec 15, 2017 9:49 AM

Help Please! I used the 'locate missing file' function to find the original and this has deleted all the picture in the same LR folder

I start with a full 1900 images, but I know I have moved the RAW files from where LR expects to find them. After I use the function to locate the individual missing file from an external HDD I want to work on, I now lose all the images from that folder. infact just 3 'blank' images are shown remaining.

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Victoria_Bampton_Lightroom_Queen

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3 years ago

You've checked the folder you moved them to?

Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen

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Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.

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steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy

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3 years ago

Yes Victoria - the folder where I tried to import the missing single file after locating it is the same folder where the 1900 disappeared from? Is that what you meant?. Also shut down with a catalog back up and restarted - no charge just 3 images in that folder not the 1900

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steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy

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3 years ago

Ah sorry Victoria, I haven't moved the folder at all, just removed the source files to save HDD space, so the folder location hasn't changed

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Victoria_Bampton_Lightroom_Queen

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3 years ago

So if you removed the source file, where are the photos now? Are you saying they were on drive 1 and they're now on drive 2? In a folder of the same name?  

And then you've clicked on the icon and told Lightroom the photo is on drive 2?

And then you're still looking at the drive 1 folder in the Folders panel in Lightroom? Have you tried opening the drive 2 folder in the Folders panel?

Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen

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Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.

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steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy

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3 years ago

Thanks Victoria. To use your names, the files were on drive 1 and thats where the catalog expects to find them. Outside of light room I deleted off drive 1 as knew they were backed up on drive 2. I used the 'locate this missing picture function' in LR to point to it in drive 2 and clicked OK. then all the thumbnails disappeared in LR and the image count went from 1900 to 3 - and the located file was not one of the 3! 

I will try upper suggestions opening the drive 2 from folders now

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Victoria_Bampton_Lightroom_Queen

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3 years ago

Great, that's what I'd expect to happen. If you look in the Folders panel, you should see drive 2, as we're calling it, and you should find the folder full of the photos now in there. If not, add a screenshot of the Folders panel and we can start talking in real names.

Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen

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Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.

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steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy

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3 years ago

Yes this is getting somewhere - by doing update folder location, rather than find missing image I have a full set back including edits 

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steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy

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3 years ago

Thanks Victoria - I need to spend some time pointing LR in the right places on a folder basis rather than finding missing images. Any other top tips as I start this reconstruction?

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Victoria_Bampton_Lightroom_Queen

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3 years ago

Update Folder Location tends to be quicker and more reliable. If loads moved, you can do a parent folder and all the subfolders will move in one go. This might help: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/

Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen

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Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.

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steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy

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I bought your book the other month victoria - thanks for all this help back then and I was successful in my ARPS panel!

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Oh wow, well done @steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy 

Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen

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Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.

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steve_miles_4hzihdbmq1uzy

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3 years ago

excellent, thanks for your help Victoria

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