Hi,
1757 is the count. I know this because they all have a keyword ("Trashme") and so are easy to identify. I just can't delete them.
I think that it may have occurred in conjunction with some import problems I am having with iPhone imports, basically:
- I'd like to plug my iPhone in, import all photos, "Don't import suspected duplicates". This would allow me to keep a copy of everything in my phone, in my Lightroom catalog.
- However when importing photos from the iPhone, there is a tendency for duplicates to appear. Not every photo gets duplicates. Not every photo gets imported. This appears to be a recent problem. I don't recall ever having it before. All the affected photos have metadata showing iPhone 8 Plus.
- At some point I've imported photos, and identified some of them as duplicates. I've tagged them for deletion. (Keyword tagged, not flagged, so I can use multiple tags, in case I have to do it multiple times.....)
- I don't know how they came to be blank. Later, when going through my keywords, I've found these to still exist, but they are 'blank'. It's NOT a link issue, its a catalog issue. I'm aware of the difference.
I can live with the grey "photos", but I'm worried that it will lead to catalog corruption later. Also, its an issue of 'housekeeping' that bothers me.
The issue of having trouble importing photos from my iPhone is far more troubling. I can't seem to do a clean import, without getting duplicates and import problems. This means I don't have many iPhone photos in my catalog, which is my... well... primary catalog, and 70% of the reason I even persist with Lightroom. Because of issues like this, and the need for a subscription, I'm closer and closer to dropping lightroom entirely. (Not a threat, just a statement of fact).
If you can help, let me know how.
Thanks
David
PS. Also getting 'help' from here:
When synching a number of folders, resulting in some photos from being added, and other being removed, empty photo-objects result in the library in place of the original photos. These do not show when browsing by folder, but do show when selecting All Photographs and filtering for instance by...
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