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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Ellis Vener on February 13, 2010, 04:44:52 pm
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My Lightroom 3 catalog has suddenly developed an interesting problem . It is losing files. The photos themselves are fine and are located right where I imported them too, I know becasue I can access them in Bridge CS4, Photoshop CS4, and Lr2.6. so it is the Lr3 catalog that is developing drop outs. Anyone else having this issue? I have about 20,000 files in my LR3 catalog.
Running Lightroom 3 in OS X 10.5.8. 2.16GHZ Intel Cure 2 Duo iMac. photos are stored and backed up on external drives.
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Hi Ellis,
Since this seems to be a case of the database losing, or losing track of, records, my first instinct would be to optimize the catalog (File > Optimize Catalog). Next I would try to see if there's a pattern to the "lost" files (files related to a folder moved/renamed, files renamed, etc.). Then you might try synchronizing the volume in Lightroom so that you get a full re-scan of the drive, and then examine the pattern of files being re-imported to identify a common factor. Finally, although the image files themselves seem to be intact, you might want to check the directory structure of that volume, using Disk Utility > First Aid > Repair Disk, or, even better, using the Volume Structures test in Tech Tool Pro 5.
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Per Christopher's advice, I optimized the catalog and the missing images showed up and added to the catalog. I also repaired my OS X Disk Permissions prior to relaunchign and optimizing. Still, it was a little disconcerting.