juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

I am hoping someone on here can help me. Windows 7 Pro and latest version of Lightroom. It seemed to work fine and now I have started to have problems with photos. I uploaded a CF card the other day to Lightroom, converted them to DNG and could see the photos there, did some post processing and then moved them as jpeg to my c:drive. Now, when I go back into Lightroom and click on that collection, it shows the photos, but says file is missing and no histogram either. I can go to Library or Develop mode and still, no file.
On photos I put in earlier, I can see some with no problems. What have I done wrong??? And most importantly, can I fix it?
I still have Lightroom 5 on hard drive and can access photos there, but with same problems as well.
Thanks in advance for your help!

juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

I need to add that I installed a WD MyBook and moved some photos there. Is that why Lightroom can't find them? If so, how do I allow Lightroom to recognize these as well?

Thanks

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Anytime LR "marks" where your photos are and then loses track of them, the ? will be there.

Evidently you had them in a location and then closed LR and then when you re-opened LR, the photos weren't where LR expected them to be.

Any relocation of photos MUST happen INSIDE of LR, otherwise it won't keep track of them.

What you need to do now, is tell LR where they are.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

You moved them with Window Explorer and you can't do that. You need to use Lightroom to move your photos or LR can't track them.

To fix it this time, you can click on one of the missing photo thumbnails in the Library view and then when a message pops up that it can't find it and asks for the location, (Locate missing file) you can then tell it where the folder is that you've moved them to and it should make the correction in your LR library file.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

To find missing files that have been moved outside of Lightroom is pretty easy....

This may help.

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

Lesson Learned: Do not monkey with moving files unless you move them in Lightroom, at least until you fully understand the catalog and what importing really does. ;)

juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

Thank you all so much. I kind of figured that is what happened, but couldn't figure out how to tell lightroom where they are.
Thanks again!

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

Actually you can move the photos external to LR, however then you will need to re-link the files to be able to edit. The "?" is the indicator.

I hope the OP keeps all of his photos together under a master folder, and does not have them scattered all over multiple drives!

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

Move photos from one drive to another in Lightroom so that Lightroom knows where they are. Question Did you change the DNG to JPEG? If so why? why not keep the DNG Master file and use the export command to send JPEGS to where you want them. I only Keep RAW, DNG, TIFF or PND files in LR and any JPEG that I create I export to a separate folder that I do not catalog in LR , since I can recreate the JPEG from the Master file

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

Most likely. When you get a "file missing" just drag your pointer to the WD MY Book if that is where you moved the original images. IN THE FUTURE, go into Lightroom Preferences and have Lightroom move your originals to whatever drive you want.