NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

If you perform just an import and not a conversion, copy or move, then LR doesn't do anything with the files except add their location to the LR database. So what function were you trying to get LR to perform?

juan_uy Loc: Uruguay

Just a suggestion, but you could:
- Import to LR from card
- Cull
- Backup (so you only backup the images you want)
AFTER all these, once you are sure all is OK and backed up, you then format SD card on camera. So until this point you would still have original files on the card.

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

It was a move, so I expected all the files to be relocated from one drive to the other.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

One of the features of Lightroom CC is its ability to cull quickly and efficiently.Have you tried using Lighroom in this way?

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

I greatly prefer Fastone to cull. It is much faster than LR.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Thanks, did not know that. What is the process that is faster than Lightroom? Maybe I will try because I thought Lightroom was pretty fast.

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

The images load faster, and you can press 1, 2, 3, 4 to get an instant zoom in at 100, 200, 300, 400%. Also, you can point your mouse to any part of the image, left click and the 100% zoom is instantaneous to that point in the image. In LR you'd have to press 1:1, then drag to the point in the image you want to view. In Fastone you're looking at images full screen instead of with the LR sidebar menus, which is helpful to assess which version of the same scene is better. You can also select up to 4 images at once to compare side by side at various zooms. It's just designed to be fast, hence it's name (Fast one). It also has decent editing capabilities if you need to make very fast minor edits, crops, etc. So for me, LR and PS for quality and significant editing, Fastone for speed and minor edits.

LA Loc: Little Rock, AR

"Lesson learned, though. I usually cull, import to LR and then backup. From now on, I'll back up, cull, import to LR, so that if something similar happens, I'll still have the backup files."

Good idea.
When I do a shoot, my first thought is to make sure I have at least two copies of the photos. So I copy the files to my computer and either leave them on the camera card as well, or more commonly leave them on the card AND copy to a second HD or (if traveling) to a USB drive...for a total of three copies.

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

While I know this doesn't help you now, in the future you would be better off to actually use the file explorer in Windows or whatever it is on a Mac to copy the files from one location to another. It is actually safer than moving them even in Windows. You can always go back and then delete them from the original location after you have made sure they are okay in the new location. It sounds like you could have possibly had either a software glitch or possibly a power issue occur ( a power drop or brown out which would not have been noticeable to you during the move. If you have performed a search for the files and can't find them then you might try using one of the deleted files recovery tools out there to see if it can find them and restore them.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

"Just in case" doesn't cut it, unless you have a cloud backup capability.