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Rick Womer

Wed, Jul 14, 2021 12:55 AM

I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer).

When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’

So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!).

At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything.

Ideas anyone?

Rick

I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer). When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’ So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!). At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything. Ideas anyone? Rick

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jcoyle@iinet.net.au

Wed, Jul 14, 2021 2:23 AM

Another reason why I don't use LR! I prefer to have my own system for organising images, which has never let me down.
Sorry I can't actually help, except perhaps - is it possible to create a new catalogue?

John in Brisbane

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Womer rickpics14@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 10:55 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Stupid freakin' Lightroom...

I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer).

When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’

So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!).

At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything.

Ideas anyone?

Rick

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Another reason why I don't use LR! I prefer to have my own system for organising images, which has never let me down. Sorry I can't actually help, except perhaps - is it possible to create a new catalogue? John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: Rick Womer <rickpics14@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 10:55 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Stupid freakin' Lightroom... I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer). When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’ So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!). At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything. Ideas anyone? Rick -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

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Larry Colen

Wed, Jul 14, 2021 3:11 AM

I don’t know which OS you’re on.

Here are some thoughts based on my experience with LR6 on mac.

On Jul 13, 2021, at 5:55 PM, Rick Womer rickpics14@gmail.com wrote:

I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer).

When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’

Is it possible that something has just messed with where it thinks some of the top level directories are stored?

If you do “find missing photos”, then “show in finder” then do a search on the file name, does it actually show find it on the hard drive?

So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!).

At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything.

Ideas anyone?

Rick

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I don’t know which OS you’re on. Here are some thoughts based on my experience with LR6 on mac. > On Jul 13, 2021, at 5:55 PM, Rick Womer <rickpics14@gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer). > > When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’ Is it possible that something has just messed with where it thinks some of the top level directories are stored? If you do “find missing photos”, then “show in finder” then do a search on the file name, does it actually show find it on the hard drive? > > So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!). > > At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything. > > Ideas anyone? > > Rick > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com

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Toine

Wed, Jul 14, 2021 6:57 AM

Sounds like something is wrong with the drive. Did you check the drive
for errors (drive properties > Tools > Check)
Also try the tools from the drive vendor. Western Digital, seagate etc
have tools to check the hardware (a full test takes hours)

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 02:55, Rick Womer rickpics14@gmail.com wrote:

I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer).

When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’

So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!).

At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything.

Ideas anyone?

Rick

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Sounds like something is wrong with the drive. Did you check the drive for errors (drive properties > Tools > Check) Also try the tools from the drive vendor. Western Digital, seagate etc have tools to check the hardware (a full test takes hours) On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 02:55, Rick Womer <rickpics14@gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer). > > When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan doesn’t show any missing.’ > > So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken yet!). > > At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become harder to trust LR with anything. > > Ideas anyone? > > Rick > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

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John

Wed, Jul 14, 2021 4:30 PM

I hope it hasn't corrupted those backup catalogs and more, I hope it hasn't
corrupted the photos or the drives the photos are stored on.

My first experience installing Lightroom 3 was SO NEGATIVE I've never used it. I
already had an organizational structure for my photo "catalog" and Adobe Bridge
will do it MY WAY!

Lightroom wouldn't.

And nothing I've heard about Lightroom since then encourages me to attempt to
change my mind about it.

On 7/13/2021 20:55:01, Rick Womer wrote:

I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time
trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday,
1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer).

When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s
cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000
photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan
doesn’t show any missing.’

So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday
the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today,
I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing
photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing
photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months,
and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken
yet!).

At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become
harder to trust LR with anything.

Ideas anyone?

Rick --

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Science - Questions we may never find answers for.
Religion - Answers we must never question.

I hope it hasn't corrupted those backup catalogs and more, I hope it hasn't corrupted the photos or the drives the photos are stored on. My first experience installing Lightroom 3 was SO NEGATIVE I've never used it. I already had an organizational structure for my photo "catalog" and Adobe Bridge will do it MY WAY! Lightroom wouldn't. And nothing I've heard about Lightroom since then encourages me to attempt to change my mind about it. On 7/13/2021 20:55:01, Rick Womer wrote: > I haven’t been very active for a while because I’ve been spending my time > trying to sort out a Lightroom problem (with 1 1/2 hours on a chat yesterday, > 1/2 hour last week, and a several hours on the computer). > > When I launch LR 10.3 (with photos stored on my own drives, not in Adobe’s > cloud), the catalog window says that I have 44,000 missing photos, and 94,000 > photos overall. I actually have 50,000-ish actual photos, and a casual scan > doesn’t show any missing.’ > > So, two Adobe on-line techs and I have tried to figure this out. Yesterday > the tech came to the conclusion that my catalog must be corrupted. So today, > I used LR to open a backup of my catalog from just before the “missing > photos” notice appeared; LR still told me the same thing. The “missing > photos” persisted even when I opened catalog backups from 1 month, 3 months, > and a year ago (at which point some of the “missing photos” hadn’t been taken > yet!). > > At this point this is probably just a distracting annoyance, but it’s become > harder to trust LR with anything. > > Ideas anyone? > > Rick -- -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question.