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Lightroom: "The file named " . . . " is offline or missing"
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jarski
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hmm this gave me an idea of making "USB Catalog". I don't trust the SSD of my aging MacAir anymore, and all my pics go to external drives. this is a hassle sometimes when starting LR without USB drive attached. but if keeping the catalog same place where pics are, it could be more strait forward to use LR 🙄
Godfrey
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I don't know why you don't "trust the SSD of my aging MacAir anymore" ...? or why it's a hassle when you start LR without the external drives attached ...?
My catalog folders are all on the internal SSD drive. ALL my photos are on external volumes (up to three of them, depending upon the catalog I'm working in). When I start up LR without the externals powered up, I can search, find, and annotate images on any of them. When I need to access the original files for editing/printing/exporting, etc, I just power up the drives.
I don't know how putting the catalog on the same drive as the original image files makes it any more straightforward to use LR either. If anything, it will slow LR down by some amount. I specifically have them organized onto separate physical volumes to promote the fastest access and best performance.
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Godfrey
somewhat colored
Why do you resist watching a video which will teach you exactly how to import files into Lightroom the right way? I just don't understand ..!
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-s...lightroom-5/lightroom-5-importing-your-images
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Lss
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I really don't see how it would be more straightforward to have the catalog on a different drive. If you want to access the original files, you obviously need the drive they are on (I guess this is the hassle). But keeping the catalog where it is now allows you to do many things without accessing other drives. It's probably a good idea to think it through before making any changes.
I have most of my files on network drives, and only keep the most current projects that I am actively working on on my computer. As soon as I am not constantly working on the originals, I tend to move them over to the network setup to free up space. While I usually have the network drives on all the time and can therefore access everything anyway, this need not be the case. Nothing breaks while the drives are off, you simply see that the files are missing. It has worked great with Aperture, and I will do exactly the same with Lightroom.
Ranchu
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Horrifying!
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Rob-F
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I watched it I watched it I watched it . . .
But it only tells me what I should have done. I'm learning more of what I need to do now from you and the others. I know a little more now about where the files are stored. I've moved them around in the process of trying to fix this, and I'm hoping to move them back where they should be. It's trial and error, learning by making and correcting mistakes. (There are only three ways to learn, and that's one of them.)
I keep going back to what you all have written. It makes a little more sense every time I re-read it. I'll get there--I think . . .
Duane Pandorf
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My Retina MacBook Pro is my workstation. I bought the version with the 256 SSD drive. I keep my Lightroom Catalog on the SSD and my Lightroom Photo Library is on a 1TB 2.5" portable drive I connect via the Thunderbolt connection.
Current photos I'm working on get imported to a folder on my SSD even if I have my external drive connected to ensure the fastest speed. Once I've finished working with those files I move those folders from inside Lightroom over to my external photo library.
Right now I only have one catalog and one library.
When I travel which is every other week for 7 days at a time I carry my main photo library external drive (a backup to that is left at home) and another drive that is a backup to my laptops internal SSD.
By the way, over a year ago I moved all my prior photos that Aperture managed over to Lightroom.
Current photos I'm working on get imported to a folder on my SSD even if I have my external drive connected to ensure the fastest speed. Once I've finished working with those files I move those folders from inside Lightroom over to my external photo library.
Right now I only have one catalog and one library.
When I travel which is every other week for 7 days at a time I carry my main photo library external drive (a backup to that is left at home) and another drive that is a backup to my laptops internal SSD.
By the way, over a year ago I moved all my prior photos that Aperture managed over to Lightroom.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Good. Sorry for sounding exasperated, but so often I try to help someone by pointing them to the source for detail information and they just keep on going doing things the wrong way and asking questions that would be answered by taking a couple of minutes and understanding the material I pointed them to.
- If you only have 92 files in Lightroom (is that the case?), you know where they are, and you haven't done any editing yet, as I said before the right thing to do is to put them all together in a folder, quit Lightroom, delete the catalog folder, and start over doing things the right way.
- If you don't want to do that for some reason, create a folder using the Lightroom tools to do so as I pointed out up-thread and then, one-by-one or by groups, drag and drop the files into the folder you created from within Lightroom.
In the future, DON'T put files on the desktop and drag them into Lightroom to import them UNLESS you set the right destination and use the Move mode in the Import window. Normally, you either:
- put the files into their final place using the Finder and then import them in Add mode, or
- import from the camera card in Copy mode while pointing to the correct destination in the file system.
Again, the biggest difference between Aperture and Lightroom with respect to file handling is that, using Aperture the way you used it, it always made a copy of the files into its library, so what you did with the originals didn't matter; Aperture has a copy of them stored in the library.
Lightroom does not have that option—it always imports the files by reference, recording only the file path to where the files are. So after you are done importing, the original files are important and should be in the place that they are going to remain.
Lightroom's Folders panel in the Library module allows you to manipulate where the files are in the file system while keeping track of and updating the file paths. If you only ever manipulate files after importing them from within Lightroom, they won't get lost.
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DNG
Film Friendly
^^^ What Godfrey said...
A person must adjust to how the new software imports and uses catalogs...
Old habits must be amended when new cataloging/editing software is used..
A person must adjust to how the new software imports and uses catalogs...
Old habits must be amended when new cataloging/editing software is used..
Rob-F
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So the count is 37 files rescued and moved to Aperture. 55 others show as thumbnails--OK previews--but I haven't found the actual pictures. Is it possible that Lightroom can save the previews even if the actual pictures are gone? Or does it mean the pictures are lurking in there someplace?
Rob-F
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jarski
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Godfrey
somewhat colored
Yes, LR can easily show photos for which it no longer has access to the original image file.
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DNG
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LOL... I am 60.. and just this year I am switching from OEM Raw converters, to Lr5.5.
I still have over 70k of photos to 'add' to my Library...😱. (added over 50k already, about .5tb out of just over 1tb)
I do have 2 nieces that can help. But I am fairly tech savvy as far learning software. 🙄
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