Lightroom 6 won't recognise my Documents folder

[AJQS]

Bit of a weird one, wanted to do a few quick tweaks to some old car pics which are in a subfolder of the My Documents folder, but Lightroom claims there's nothing in the My Documents folder! If I click on just 'users' folder, with subfolders enabled, it shows me all the pics in the downloads folder, but nothing from My Documents or My Pictures. If I click to the Downloads subfolder, it says there are no photos. Google came up with nothing.

 

[PhilH04]

Have the images been imported? If they have are they showing an exclamation mark?

 

[redsnappa]

If you are 100% sure that Lightroom supports the RAW files you are working with do the following

In the library module of lightroom:

• Right click the sub folder where your pictures are saved.
• In the menu that appears click synchronise folder

After this synchronise process is completed any image with supported file types Raw types etc will be displayed.

 

[AJQS]

Oops sorry, forgot to mention this is in the import dialog to get them into a catalog in the first place.

 

[mickledore]

I've noticed something similar. Sometimes - at random - LR just doesn't see images that I want to import. I know they exist but I am not given the option to import even though they have not been imported before.

I "cheat" and copy them to a folder that I have used in LR, synchronise, then process them and move the folder around in LR. Gets round the problem but I shouldn't need to do it.

Any solution will be gratefully received.

 

[Paul W. H]

I once had a similar issue and it turned out that they were duplicates (file names) of images already in Lightroom.

 

[PhilH04]

You could try dragging the folder of images, or, an individual image from explorer into the grid view of the import dialogue...

 

[AJQS]

You could try dragging the folder of images, or, an individual image from explorer into the grid view of the import dialogue...

Didn't know you could do that, worked a treat! Thanks!