Missing/offline images in Lightroom

jerry12953

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Don't know what I'm doing wrong but I'm tearing my hair out here.

I've imported some images into Lightroom, but when I try to go to "Develop" it just says the images are offline/missing.

I can't find them.

I've tried importing them again but it says they are already in the catalogue.

What do I need to do?

cheers,

digitally inept jerry
 
Are they files from an old import or one you've just done?
 
Have you checked the files are actually on the HD in the place LR thinks they should be?
 
In the library module the images that are "not there" should have an icon for you to locate them on the HD.

If you haven't worked on them already I'd delete the ones showing as not there (there should be a group under All Images/Quick Collection/Last Import called Missing Files) and re import them. Or if you don't want to lose the edits copy them onto your hard drive and link to them, if they were all in the same folder before you should only need to link to one and Lightroom will sort out the rest.
 
Try another import but untick "Do not import suspected duplicates" and see if that sorts it out.
 
pxl8 said:
Have you checked the files are actually on the HD in the place LR thinks they should be?
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The files names are shown on the HD, two or more of each one in some cases because of multiple attempts to down load them, but when I do a search for them in Windows it doesn't seem to be able to find them either .....

:(
 
Erm, are you saying that you've got 2 or more files with the same name in the same folder?
 
pxl8 said:
Erm, are you saying that you've got 2 or more files with the same name in the same folder?
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No, in different folders .....

I've no idea what's going on here, but I'm a just slightly cautiously optimistic now because I've removed the "missing" files from LR and reimported the first lot again and they are now available....

Is he clambering slowly out of the digital black hole he has dug for himself....?:thinking:
 
In case anyone else uses "search" for this problem, I also had this yesterday in LR. When you open the dialogue, it tells you where the pictures used to be. I checked in Explorer, and they were still there. All I did was repoint the LR browser back to the same image and checked the "find similar photos" box.

Somehow, LR "lost" the reference to the image.

-H
 
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