Lightroom: Ability to hide "files offline or missing" message in LR 3 and LR4

dang did u ever get it fixed? i cant get in ti do any of my editing. very fustrated need to finishe prom pics n im stuck trying to resolve this problem and im not getting anywhere...:(

Just a workaround, to make the message less intrusive:

- Stop LR, go to lightrooms program folder, subfolder "Resources".

If your language setting is English:
- If not already there, create a folder "en", enter that folder
- If not already there, create a text file "TranslatedStrings.txt" with UTF-8 encoding
(... on Windows, use notepad, on Mac don't know ...)
- Add the following line to the file (including the quotation marks):

"$$$/AgLibraryPixels/Loupe/OverlayMessage/OfflineWithName=?"

If your language setting is different from English:
- Enter the folder corresponding to your language
- Make a backup of the "TranslatedStrings.txt" file (!!)
- Open "TranslatedStrings.txt" file with UTF8-able editor (windows: notpad)
- Search for AgLibraryPixels/Loupe/OverlayMessage/OfflineWithName
- Change the line (see above)

Now the whole message is just a little black rectangle containing a question mark, which is less intrusive. You can also remove the question mark from the line, so it's just a little black rectangle alone.

But I also add my vote for a configuration option to switch it off (I didn't find one). Would be very useful for offline browsing just using the previews.

Survey View with just one image selected is the only view without the warning, AFAIK.

Beat

When working with pictures on an external drive which is offline, this warning message "files offline or missing" keeps popping up ( in addition to that question mark on the thumbs).

does anyone have any idea why they dont offer a option to turn off that annoying message?

I find it unnecessary and very distracting when working on or showing offline pictures.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Ability to disable the "files offline or missing" - message.

I've recently migrated from using Aperture as my main tool to Lightroom. My reason for doing so is founded in the ability to out source and Lightroom's ability to utilize XML files. There are a number of things that I greatly miss from Aperture...

Having the ability to work with catalogs & previews separate from their associated raw image files would be greatly enhanced if the warning bezel "image(s) are either missing or offline" was only present when entering the Develop module.

I regularly work on rating/key-wording on my laptop while traveling. Doing so, I know that I don't have to bring the entire raw file folder but rather standard or 1:1 Previews. Having the warning bezel appear on the image in Loop view in the Library module is a huge distraction and it is an unnecessary warning. Having the warning appear in the Develop module is reasonable.

I hope this helps.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Only show the "image(s) are either missing or offline" warning bezel in Develop.

This message makes it really hard to judge how many stars you want to assign to which image.

Beside working "offline" on the catalogue for keywording and rating I want to have a reasonably sized preview of all my photos on my primary hard drive always at hand (on my laptop) to show them if someone asks to see them. With this annoying message, you cannot enjoy looking at the photos.

As my internal drive is just a temporary working place, this message appears on virtually all my photos (except those few who are still on my internal drive).

There might be a very good reason that you have introduced this message. But please make it optional so that one can get rid of it, in case you don't need it...