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richgin60 Loc: Central New York

Searcher wrote:

Are you running on Win 7 or Win 8?

Win7

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

richgin60 wrote:

Win7

Good, I'll be back

BobbyR

I've been following this thread. The same thing happened to me more or less out of the blue after a long period (many months) of satisfactory operation. Tried all sorts of things including a virus scan to get the thumbnails to display in the library while importing. Everything else, i.e. develop and print worked fine so the images did get imported, just not displayed in library. Finally, I uninstalled LR5.6, reinstalled it from the original disk, updated it to 5.6 and everything has been fine since (perhaps 10 imports so far). Imports were raw images (all that I use), also from a D7000, Computer is a Dell 620 that has been in use for something like 2 years. OS is Windows 7, Home Edition with Service Pack 1.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

Back up your Catalogue
Close Lightroom
Navigate to your previews folder, it will usually be in Pictures\Lightroom and will be called
"Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews.lrdata"
Change the name to "Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews.lrdata.old"

Now open Lightroom and goto the Library
Menus > Library > Previews > Build Standard-Size Previews

The previews should rebuild )this could take a while depending on how many images you have)

If all is well, Back up your catalogue

The reason for renaming the old version was to preserve things in case anything goes wrong. The old file can be deleted if everything works out OK.

richgin60 Loc: Central New York

Searcher wrote:

Back up your Catalogue br Close Lightroom br Navig... (show quote)

I'll give it a try. Thanks. I'll let you know what happens.

richgin60 Loc: Central New York

BobbyR wrote:

I've been following this thread. The same thing ha... (show quote)

Thanks Bobbyr, if all else fails I'll give it a try. Have to download off Adobe store.

richgin60 Loc: Central New York

BobbyR wrote:

I've been following this thread. The same thing ha... (show quote)

Thanks Bobbyr, if all else fails I'll give it a try. Have to download off Adobe store.

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

richgin60 wrote:

Thanks Bobbyr, if all else fails I'll give it a try. Have to download off Adobe store.

That's one nice thing about buying the disk instead of the download version. You can always reinstall and update the system if all else fails. You might need to store your Lightroom library on a separate media though so it doesn't get written over.

richgin60 Loc: Central New York

singleviking wrote:

That's one nice thing about buying the disk instead of the download version. You can always reinstall and update the system if all else fails. You might need to store your Lightroom library on a separate media though so it doesn't get written over.

:thumbup:

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

richgin60 wrote:

I have newest lightroom 5 but for a week am unable to get thumbnails for my downloads. The picture gets downloaded, but no thumbnails so I do not know what pic it is. I have tried downloading lightroom, but that hasn't worked. I have Elements 12 and it's thumbnails work fine. Haven't received any help from Adobe except to go to community...nothing there. I have made sure everything is check marked in the page set up. Any ideas?

If you opened the files using Nikon's software, then try to get Lightroom to import them it won't happen- You need to import the files directly from your camera into Lightroom either by connecting the camera by USB cable to your computer, or by using a Cardreader connected to your computer to read the memory chip removed from your camera. The Lightroom IMPORT box will ask where to store the originals; if you want to convert the Camera Raw files to DNG format; and what size thumbnails you want in preview. If you are having problems buy the Scott Kelby book on Lightroom 5. It is the most comprehensive volume on your choices and how to set them up.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

romanticf16 wrote:

If you opened the files using Nikon's software, th... (show quote)

That is not correct, if you import the picture files using any software and the files are on your disc, they can be imported into Lightroom. Obviously they cannot be imported from another propriety catalogue, but the files will be on your hard drive.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

Searcher wrote:

That is not correct, if you import the picture files using any software and the files are on your disc, they can be imported into Lightroom. Obviously they cannot be imported from another propriety catalogue, but the files will be on your hard drive.

If a Nef file is opened and changed in the Nikon Software, it is assigned a proprietary file name Lightroom won't recognize. I don't know it this is what happened and I did a poor job of asking the question. If this is not the case then the Lightroom settings are wrong somewhere or thumbnail images would be generated at the time of import.

richgin60 Loc: Central New York

Searcher wrote:

That is not correct, if you import the picture files using any software and the files are on your disc, they can be imported into Lightroom. Obviously they cannot be imported from another propriety catalogue, but the files will be on your hard drive.

Searcher I've tried your suggestion and after four hours nothing happened. I aslo tried to erase and download lightroom again, same thing happened again. So I'm not sure what to do next.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

richgin60 wrote:

Searcher I've tried your suggestion and after four hours nothing happened. I aslo tried to erase and download lightroom again, same thing happened again. So I'm not sure what to do next.

Find the file called "Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews.lrdata

Open it
you will see a long series of folders with 4 digit numbers such as "4A12"
Open one or two of this files DO NOT EDIT THEM OR ALTER THEM.
Some of these folders will be empty, some should have images in them.
Are they all empty, or are there some images in them?

In Lightroom, File > Open Recent
How many "Lightroom 5 Catalog.lrcat" are showing?
Are there any other *.lrcat files showing in the Recent and if so, what are they?

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

Whilst the above measures are still checking the catalogue integrity, there is something else you should check.

All programs off
Control Panel > Colour Management > Advanced tab

Device Profile - change it using the drop down to "sRGB IEC61966-2.1"