big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Hi wonder if someone can help me ? Created a wedding catologue in lightroom file =new catologue and imported them in but when I went to put other photos in can not find any of my other photographs and lightroom only showing 404 photos as opposed to 2,900 . Thanxs in advance

Camlane Loc: North Carolina

You need to go back to your original catalog.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Thanxs for a super speedy reply !How do I do that ?

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

KIS yes, keep it simple. Set up your filing system with named folders/sub-folders. Copy your "wedding photos" into a dated or client name sub-folder within major folder "weddings." If indeed you wish to view all wedding photos as a large group. Make copies on an external drive. Low cost 128 gig SSD or even old clunker drives are easy to attach and to load. Creative naming like B&G fro Bride and groom, or G for group photos... makes searching easy ..... use sort by... date... name.

One size fits all is perhaps OK for socks, but for shoes and filing systems... NO ! Knit your own to fit better.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

By creating multiple catalogs, you can only see what is in the current catalog. If you want to see all of your other images, you'd be better off creating a wedding Collection, and continue to import your images into the single catalog. Some pros will make a personal and a client catalog, but with the excellent management features in LR, you don't need to. You can create a custom import preset to designate images that a)will be added to the correct collection and b)allows you to keyword the files in the import as to the content of the import.

For now, I would open your main catalog, then Choose File > Import From Another Catalog and identify the wedding catalog and import your images. You can either define the Collection ahead of time, or do it once the newly imported images are displayed, when you can select all the images and create a collection and add the selected images to it.

I hope you are keeping all of your images under one master folder called something like Pictures, Pics, My Pics, etc. There is no need to do any substantial organization at the file/OS level, you can just do it inside LR.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Try:
1) Open any catalog, go to File>Recent and see if the catalog you want is listed and then click on it. The current catalog will shut down and the catalog you clicked on will open.
2) Hold down the option key (mac)/alt key (PC) and open Lightroom. A box will pop up that lists all of your catalogs and will allow you to search other devices as well for your catalog if you need that. Click on the catalog you want to open.

If you are not sure what catalog you are in or where it is located, right-click directly on the catalog name (white bar at top) and a box will pop up giving you specific information on that catalog. See below.

Know where you store photos and know what catalog they are stored in: using only one catalog and deleting all other catalogs from your system is an approach that will stop any confusion you may have on catalogs. If you create a catalog and then transfer all of the catalog data and image files to another catalog simply drag the old catalog to the trash. Working "clean" avoids future problems.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

If you create a new catalog and import just that 404 wedding pictures, that's all you'll have in that catalog. Open up your other catalog and all the other 2900 images will still be there.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

From what you described, I think something else may have happened.

If you "put other photos in" via the import dialog... in other words if you added photos to the catalog in batches, rather than all at one time... you might be only seeing "last/previous import".

Go to the Library module, in the left hand panel look right under "Navigator" for "Catalog". If need be, click on the arrow to expand that, and see what's highlighted there. If it's "last/previous import", click on "all photos". That will display all the images in the catalog.

But I agree with the gist of some other responses... you probably didn't need to create another catalog. You could have just created a folder or multiple folders or sub-folders withing folders to keep the wedding photos separate. Much faster and easier than having to restart Lightroom every time you want to switch catalogs!

Personally I set up and use one new catalog each year, since Lightroom slows down and starts to act buggy once it gets around 100,000 images in any give catalog. I shoot about 50,000 images a year, on average.... so it works out pretty well for me to simply have a separate catalog for each year.

When you have multiple catalogs, the easiest way to switch is to go to the Library module, then the File menu... then "Open Recent". There you'll find a list of your catalogs, in order from the most recent used down to the oldest accessed. I've got over a dozen "recent" catalogs listed... in my case by year.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Thanxs everybody for your help ! All photos found !