Saleavitt10 Loc: Maine

Purchased a new iMac to replace my MacBook. Subscribe to LR Classic and PS and downloaded without a hitch. Here is my problem. I had a bunch of folders on an external drive since the MacBook internal HD was short on space. There were folders for each year on the external drive. Opened LR on the new iMac and started to move the folders from the external to the internal drive. All folders moved perfectly except the 2017 folders. The basic folder tree is the main folder for the year then sub folders with the date of the pictures. The external drive shows with all the folders but when I click on them they indicate there are photos but they show as blanks. I know they are photos I have pp'd in LR as the flags are indicated as I assigned them. If I look at the folders in Finder all the photos can be seen as processed with the xmp files. Why oh why can't LR find/see them? There are no !/? On any of the folders in LR.

Anybody have any ideas I can try to get them to show in LR. I supposed I can re-import but won't I lose my edits?

Thanks for any light that can be shed on my problem.

happy sailor Loc: Ontario, Canada

Probably not but we have managed to import into a folder say 2014 in Lightroom and somehow ended up putting the 2017 folder under 2014, so our 2017 folder was empty, the 2014 folders had them all. Check to see if you have 2017 folders under one of your other years.

This is what happened on my wife's computer when she was learning Lightroom earlier this year.

Have you checked the external outside of Lightroom to make sure the photos are where you thought they were, if they are, then check to make sure that your user name has read rights for that folder that LR is not seeing.

And you are right if you re-import you will lose your edits.

Saleavitt10 Loc: Maine

Thanks Happy Sailor. Yes, the photos are on the external drive. I can see them in Finder.