- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic V11-V12
- Operating System
- macOS 12 Monterey
(Numbers of images approximate from what I remember)
1) I had a total of 11 k images. Decided to separate my wildlife images from family and trip images.
2) Imported 160 images from a recent wildlife trip and edited many
3) Added an external drive to the folders and dragged many folders from MacHD to External HD. When I stopped not completely done) I had about 4k images on External and 7k on
MacHD
4) Next time I went to open Lightroom, it told me it could not locate the catalog did I want to open default. I went to File-Open recent, had me upgrade to V12 and it opened an old
catalog with less than 11/2 the images
5) Opened and loaded last Backup. When I tried to open it had the "Catalog not found". Searched and found that there may be a lock folder in the Pictures folder of the Mac. Threw
it in the trash. Restarted Lightroom. It opened fine but had to upgrade to V12. The Catalog from backup, as expected did not have the last 160 images imported and did not show
the External Drive and had 11K images
Now the problem
1) I renamed the catalog to My Catalog so there would not be confusion with prior recent or backup catalogs
2) I imported again the 160 images to be edited again later.
3) I added the External Drive to the Folders (now I have McintoshHD and External Pro Drive)
4) None of the images in the External Drive appeared so I selected import and ADD (instead of Copy)to the External Pro Drive in lightroom from the external (THIS may have been
a critical mistake!!)
5) All folders with their images from the connected external loaded to External Pro in Lightroom and all the images are visible BUT
6) Now Lightroom shows a total of 22K images ( instead of 11K) with the External Pro showing 8K images (instead of 4K).
7) I opened the connected external drive outside of Lightroom and it shows the original 4k images.
8) Somehow I doubled the images on the MacHD and the External Pro drive but no idea how or where are the extra images.....................almost as if there is another Catalog but
nothing in recent catalogs or in most recent IRCAT.s that I still have on Pictures Mac folder
1) I had a total of 11 k images. Decided to separate my wildlife images from family and trip images.
2) Imported 160 images from a recent wildlife trip and edited many
3) Added an external drive to the folders and dragged many folders from MacHD to External HD. When I stopped not completely done) I had about 4k images on External and 7k on
MacHD
4) Next time I went to open Lightroom, it told me it could not locate the catalog did I want to open default. I went to File-Open recent, had me upgrade to V12 and it opened an old
catalog with less than 11/2 the images
5) Opened and loaded last Backup. When I tried to open it had the "Catalog not found". Searched and found that there may be a lock folder in the Pictures folder of the Mac. Threw
it in the trash. Restarted Lightroom. It opened fine but had to upgrade to V12. The Catalog from backup, as expected did not have the last 160 images imported and did not show
the External Drive and had 11K images
Now the problem
1) I renamed the catalog to My Catalog so there would not be confusion with prior recent or backup catalogs
2) I imported again the 160 images to be edited again later.
3) I added the External Drive to the Folders (now I have McintoshHD and External Pro Drive)
4) None of the images in the External Drive appeared so I selected import and ADD (instead of Copy)to the External Pro Drive in lightroom from the external (THIS may have been
a critical mistake!!)
5) All folders with their images from the connected external loaded to External Pro in Lightroom and all the images are visible BUT
6) Now Lightroom shows a total of 22K images ( instead of 11K) with the External Pro showing 8K images (instead of 4K).
7) I opened the connected external drive outside of Lightroom and it shows the original 4k images.
8) Somehow I doubled the images on the MacHD and the External Pro drive but no idea how or where are the extra images.....................almost as if there is another Catalog but
nothing in recent catalogs or in most recent IRCAT.s that I still have on Pictures Mac folder