Missing Photos in Lightroom Classic

[@leoneelizabeth]

Thank. you, thank you. Your video is worth gold to me. After much advice and months of searching and trawling I finally have a comprehensive understanding of missing files. Thanks again!

[@tv510]

Glad I could help! I went through the same thing, that's why I figured if it stumped me, it could be puzzling other people. Thanks for watching.

[@shonacrosthwaite4136]

Love your teaching style Terry, I’m learning lots.

[@tv510]

Thank you Shona, I appreciate the kind words.

[@wallove67]

Thank you SO much for this video. It was easy to follow and addressed a frustrating problem clearly.

[@tv510]

Nice. I took me a while, getting exasperated with lost images in the beginning of using Lightroom. I think that's what motivates me to make these videos in the first place - What would I like to see.

[@ashishjadhav5749]

Hi Terry, i have have one problem when you import photos to lightroom and your photos in pc is deleted than can i get my photos from lightroom???

[@tv510]

Think of Lightroom as an intuitive guide to your photos. The originals reside in folders accessible to Lightroom. If you remove those original images, Lightroom has nothing to access. You will only be able to look at the thumbnails, which will be in showing, but when you go to work on an image, you can't , because the images have been moved. (Sorry)

[@DavidKim-rs3fp]

I don’t know why his videos have such low number of view These are great 😊 ❤

[@tv510]

I'm glad you like them. Hopefully over time, more people will watch them, thanks for the kind comments.

[@gaborbaross6119]

Hello Terry, What happen if I locate the photos, and the " find nearby missing photos" box is hooked, but it locates only one photo? This mean if I have 100 pictures, than I have to locate 100 times one by one... Thanks for your help.

[@tv510]

Here is the great thing about Lightroom Classic, click on one image and all others in that folder get found at the same time. Go back to Library mode and watch the exclamation points disappear!

[@SteveHPhotos]

Hi, Can I direct Lightroom to import images from a cloud based folder on Dropbox?

[@tv510]

Hi Steve, I tried that. I put a few raw files up on Dropbox and tried a download. They did not show up. So, no, it doesn't appear that you can download directly from a cloud folder. Only solution would be to download from Dropbox into a hard drive folder and go from there.

[@SteveHPhotos]

Thats a shame, thanks for investigating it though@@tv510

[@JMedia09]

What happened if I deleted the original folder???

[@tv510]

Might not be good if the file is no longer on your hard drive somewhere...

[@user-lb4bd1go9o]

Thank you Terry for your excellent video, so well explained and demonstrated. With LR I was 'put off' by it due to missing files several times. I saved to MacBook hard drive then LR couldn't locate them. I wonder does 'iPhoto' clash with LR sometimes? Not sure if it's a factor, sometime my images end up in iPhotos. Anyway, thanks again, your presentation is high quality. Colin.

[@tv510]

Thank you for watching Colin. I think just keeping all the LRC files together with the catalog on the same drive, helps with not seeing missing files again.

[@user-lb4bd1go9o]

Great, Thank you again. I'll give that a go. Yes gotta be really proficient and careful to keep LRC files within same catalog on same drive.

[@hanshaake523]

Thank you,my Problem is ,after updating LR to 14.0.1 half of the Pictures suddenly were missing. I now stay in Contact with Adobe ,but up to now there is no Solution.

[@tv510]

Wow, that is weird. I didn't have that problem at all. I hope they get a resolution for you soon. All else fails, you can always make a new catalog and reload those missing images.

[@hanshaake523]

@@tv510 Thank you,I hope the Guys from Adobe can help me next Week.

[@kathleenskoller1182]

Thank you! I now know how to find images and understand it well enough I hope. My next step is to merge 5 catalogues into one Master Catalogue. I think my next step is the merge on my iMac, then find missing images. They're on XHDs in files labeled by location. There may be duplication of a file name "unedited shoots".

[@tv510]

I have a lot of catalogs, each customer gets their own catalog, each year of nature gets it own, etc. That way, I'm not searching through images of say portraits when I'm looking for images with clouds. It's a great feeling to be able to find all your images. Congrats.

[@samlili7530]

great video, i feel like there arent many guides on the library side of lightroom other than quick fixes to certain issues so this video will help me organize my pictures better while it being less time consuming. wish I knew before how better it is to organize files on lightroom instead of the computer

[@tv510]

Yes, its and important part of the process. Glad you liked it.

[@notallaboutmeministry3285]

Thank you

[@tv510]

You're welcome

[@SPEAKERMOB]

16 minutes is atrocious for such an easy issue. This could have been solved with a 1 minute vid. I don't even have the patience to sit here and try to figure out where you started teaching.

[@tv510]

Not all videos are for everyone. Thanks for watching, the 16 minutes!