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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Rick Popham on June 16, 2013, 09:47:24 pm

Title: LR 4 Images disappeared
Post by: Rick Popham on June 16, 2013, 09:47:24 pm
An odd thing just happened.  I imported some images into LR 4 last night and edited a few of them in the develop module.  Today I went back to these images and three of them were missing form the catalog -- no question marks, no place holder in the grid - just gone.  The files and the .xmp attachments are still in the folder on the disk, and show up in Bridge.  It's as if I removed them from the catalog (I don't think I did).

The question is, how do I get them back? 
Title: Re: LR 4 Images disappeared
Post by: Costas on June 17, 2013, 03:25:20 am
Have you maybe set a filter that does not include them or a collection ?
Title: Re: LR 4 Images disappeared
Post by: Rick Popham on June 17, 2013, 05:31:36 pm
No, no filters set.  Somehow I must have deleted them from the catalog.  I'm having a mental block on figuring out how to get them back.
Thanks, though.
Title: Re: LR 4 Images disappeared
Post by: Richowens on June 17, 2013, 05:44:03 pm
Synchronize the folder they are in or reimport...add.

Rich
Title: Re: LR 4 Images disappeared
Post by: Rick Popham on June 17, 2013, 07:05:47 pm
Thanks to all who answered.  I ended up reimporting the missing pictures.  Then I noticed that a nearby stack of images looked a little larger than it should -- 3 images larger, as it turned out.  I accidentally stacked the "missing" photos with the other images.

In short -- MORON!

Title: Re: LR 4 Images disappeared
Post by: Tony Jay on June 17, 2013, 07:09:24 pm
Some of the most interesting and useful things that I have learned about Lightroom sprung out of the silliest cock-ups you can imagine.
The adage that you learn more from your failures than your successes wins every time!

Tony Jay
Title: Re: LR 4 Images disappeared
Post by: Rick Popham on June 17, 2013, 07:19:26 pm
Some of the most interesting and useful things that I have learned about Lightroom sprung out of the silliest cock-ups you can imagine.
The adage that you learn more from your failures than your successes wins every time!

Tony Jay

I must be a genius by now!