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    Catalogs Catalog Problem? Not sure what to do, or why it happened>

    mkirker, once you have the new catalog, point it at your Image library and see if it will "Add" the images you have to the new catalog. That is what I did and it seems to have worked, with some small differences from the old catalog. So far, the only difference is the lack of key words. Some...
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    Catalogs Catalog Problem? Not sure what to do, or why it happened>

    Well folks, I think I finally got my images back into a catalog that seems to work. I found my old "10" catalog and upon attempt to use it, it was converted by Lightroom to the "11" catalog, I then "Added" all my images in my Image Library back into Lightroom using that catalog. This worked...
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    Catalogs Catalog Problem? Not sure what to do, or why it happened>

    HI Paul, I have a folder named Lightroom Photos, that is the top level folder for my images. It contains 70K + images. Lightroom 10 ran okay. The catalog it had created recognized all my photos and. I guess, the Smart Collections that I had built over the past few years. For some reason...
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    Catalogs Catalog Problem? Not sure what to do, or why it happened>

    Paul, thanks for the idea. I will look and see if I can find the previous catalog. I was also thinking of restoring all the images from my backup, but right now, there is no difference between what is on the "operational" copy and what is on the backup. Is there anything to be gained from...
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    Catalogs Catalog Problem? Not sure what to do, or why it happened>

    Yes, I have done that. They are all there, and they are all present in my backup, if I need it. WesternGuy
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    Catalogs Catalog Problem? Not sure what to do, or why it happened>

    Johann, interesting speculation, but I I only keep the last catalog available for upgrade, any others are either deleted or moved to a backup folder. Do you have any insight into my questions? WesternGuy
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    Catalogs Catalog Problem? Not sure what to do, or why it happened>

    When the last version of Lightroom was provided through the Adobe Creative Cloud update procedure a new catalog was required. However, the new catalog was, for whatever reason, only capable of finding about 20K of my photographs in a folder that has in excess of 70K images. It also...
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    Lightroom 11 with new catalog has really mucked up my images

    I have over 70K images in my catalog and the new version of Lightroom (V11) seems to have really screwed things up. This new version is able to find my picture catalog stored on my G: drive as a folder named "Lightroom Photos", but this is where things go screwy. My photos are stored by Year...
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    Lightroom doesn't recognize my picture drive

    This problem is "finished", but was never resolved. Thw new version of Lightroom has created more problems to be documented in a new posting.
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    Lightroom doesn't recognize my picture drive

    Paul, thanks for your response and ideas. It is and they appreciated. To address you ideas: 1. Rest assured, I am positive that I did not do any of the copying inside Lightroom as I do not do backups that way. They are always done outside Lightroom. That way, Lightroom does not know its...
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    Lightroom doesn't recognize my picture drive

    I have all my photos stored on my G: drive (external) and a backup drive for my images on F: (external). I recently updated all of the images on my backup drive (F:). I copy new folders from my G: drive to my F: drive, something I have done for quite a few years and now Lightroom will not...
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    Problem logging in to the Forum

    Victoria, I am using Firefox.
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    Snapshots and Collections

    Califdan, thank you for the detailed response. WesternGuy
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    Problem logging in to the Forum

    I posted a message this afternoon and received some valuable replies. When I returned this evening to thank the posters, it appeared that I was logged in as I was recognized by the "Welcome line" at the top - "Hi Western Guy, welcome back!" - yet when I tried to post a thank you I was told I...
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    Snapshots and Collections

    Thank you both. That helps my understanding considerably. WesternGuy
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