wkocken Loc: McGregor, MN

I have a directory where some photos are showing a diagonal where the exposure changes and some photos that are mirror images and some that are just rotated 90 degrees. Some photos are correct. Here are examples. I deleted and rebuilt the previews and I turned off the graphics processor but the problem persists. The originals are RAW and I have Lightroom create XMP sidecar files. Can someone provide guidance to correct the situation?

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I'm guessing, but they look like they got that way before they got to Lightroom.

wkocken Loc: McGregor, MN

I "think" they were correct before. I would remember the reversed photo as being bad. Now that I think about it, I did move the files from my internal "C" drive to an external drive, using LR's file explorer. I'm not sure if that caused the problem or not.

Haydon

Try the reset button in Lightroom and see if that fixes it.

MtnMan Loc: ID

The last one is flipped horizontally. Just flip it back.

The others look like the graduated filter is applied. You can activate it and delete. Or, as suggested, just click reset on the image.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

That is funny. I think MtnMan hit the nail on the head.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

The 1st two photos look like you have a hard edge grad on the lens, or applied in LR. If you use the history in LR do they look the same after import? Did you maybe add a grad in LR and accidentally syncing to these photos?

wkocken Loc: McGregor, MN

Reset didn't do it. A whole sequence of photos has this effect, and the diagonal line rotates a little bit from on photo to the next. I think they may have gotten corrupted when I copied them onto my external hard drive. The last is mirrored. There are several photos like this too. I don't think LR can fix that. PS could.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

Yes LR can fix this use the Photo Flip menu.

UtahBob Loc: Southern NJ

The fact that Reset didn't do anything is disturbing. I would gather that you catalog has some level of corruption.

What happens if you copy the original Raw files (without copying the xmp files) to another directory and import that into LR (you may need to uncheck the exclude duplicates in the import dialogue). Are these newly imported Raws ok? If so, I'd delete the others with issues and keep the new ones. If not then I'd look at the Raws with another program, optimally with the mfg software and see what you have in the Raw.

The LR editing instructions shouldn't be in the Raw file so corruption in the Raw via copying to another drive doesn't seem to make sense. Corruption in the xmp copied over I guess could be possible but you'd have to overwrite the catalog instructions with the xmp instructions after the copy which I'm assuming you didn't do.

I'd optimize the catalog after doing this to hopefully clear out any issues.

wkocken Loc: McGregor, MN

I viewed the RAW photos in IRFANVIEW and they looked OK, so I went back to LR and tried the Reset command. It worked! I thought I'd done that previously, but I guess I did not. Thanks everyone for the help.