Catalog and image location confusion

New to this softwear.
imported photo from cd into lightroom. thumbnail images found in catalog. found in library. go to develop and light room can not locate file since its points to an cd drive.
so i deleted the image and loaded the image outside of lightroom on to the c drive. and from the c drive imported the image into lightroom. lightroom can not fide the file.
how to solve this problemm?ed catalog?

In general, you will not get an answer from Adobe in these forums. Instead, you will get an answer from other users, which in most cases, are sufficient to solve the problem.
Your specific problem is addressed in your other threads.

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dorin_nicolaescu wrote:
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Well basically there are four areas where disk I/O can impact performance. The catalog, previews, images and ACR cache. So with only two drives how do you minimize disk contention during typical LR editing?
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I ran into this problem with my own catalog a few weeks ago. I plugged my external hard drive into a different USB and everything was gone.
Not gone, just mis-addressed. It can be re-addressed as necessary. I believe it is enough on MacOs, to name the drive. On Windows, the details vary by OS version (Google for instructions) but this is for Win7:
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This is number three attempt so not sure how many times this will show up.
I have the new LR and when inserting my SD/CF II card into the card reader the images have no choice but to go to LR which in NOT where I wish them to reside. I have a separate HDD for my files and want to be able to place my new images in appropriate folders on the HDD where I keep My Pictures. Please advise how to do this. TIA
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I have the new LR and when inserting my SD/CF II card into the card reader the images have no choice but to go to LR which in NOT where I wish them to reside. I have a separate HDD for my files and want to be able to place my new images in appropriate folders on the HDD where I keep My Pictures. Please advise how to do this. TIA
Your images do not "go to LR".
Lightroom NEVER stores your images inside of Lightroom.
Even if you use this Lightroom dialog box, your photos will always be stored on one of your hard disks, whereever you specify. If you want them in a specific folder on a specific hard disk, you instruct Lightroom to put them there, using the destination panel on the right of the Import dialog box.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-5/lightroom-5-imp orting-your-images/
Secondly, I also only want to use LR to a couple of specific things for me with particular images. One is that I would like to be able to use the straightening/perspective control and/or noise reduction on specific images but am unable to find out how to load only those specfic images when needed into LR. Any info about how to do this would be appreciated.
Any time you want to operate on a photo(s) in Lightroom, you must first import it(them) into Lightroom (see above)
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Try using the keyer and see if you can pull the blown sky. You should be able to get something acceptable,

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Thanks for being on the case, dj!   As you'll see below, YOU WERE RIGHT!      But I am confused.
    1. Does the same problem exist if you try to import (not synchronize) from that folder? In other words, does import improperly think these are not duplic
YES. Import improperly thinks they are NOT duplicates, but they are in fact the same image (but apparently not the EXACT SAME bytes on disk!)
    2. According to the documentation, a photo is considered a duplicate "if it has the same, original filename; the same Exif capture date and time; and the same file size."
This is my understanding too.
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This difference alone is enough to indicate why LR does not consider the file a duplicate.
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ORIGINAL name: P5110178.JPG                                     2001:05:11 15:27:18    2001:05:11 15:27:18-07:00        2001:01:17 11:29:00        2011:01:17 11:29:00-07:00       2005:04:24 14:41:05
After LR rename: KRJ_0002_010511_P5110178.JPG    2001:05:11 15:27:18    2001:05:11 15:27:18-07:00        2001:05:11 15:27:18        2011:01:17 11:29:02-07:00       2005:04:24 14:41:05
So ... now I see TWO reasons why LR doesn't consider these duplicates.   Though the file NAME is the same (as original), the file sizes ARE slightly different. The EXIF "DateTimeOriginal" is DIFFERENT.   Therefore, LR considers them NOT duplicates.
     4a. With regards to the screen captures of your images and operating system folder, I do not see that the filename is the same; I see the file names are different. Is that because you renamed the photos in Lightroom (either during import or afterwards)?
I renamed the file on import using a custom template ...
        4b. Can you show a screen capture of this image that shows the original file name in the Lightroom metadata panel (it appears when the dropdown is set to EXIF and IPTC)?
SO ....
The METADATA shown by LR does NOT include the ORIGINAL file name (but I think I have seen it displayed for other files?). The File SIZE in the LR metadata panel (246.96 KB) is different from what Finder reports (254 KB). There are three "date" fields in the LR metadata, and five that I've extracted from the EXIF data.   I'm not sure which EXIF date corresponds to the "Data Time" shown in the LR metadata.
I don't understand how these differences arose.   I did not touch the original file outside LR.   LR is the only program that touches the file it has copied to my external drive during import. (though it was RECOVERED from a failed disk by Data Rescue 4),
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I understand WHY LR considers the files different (but not how they came to be so). The question now is WHAT DO I DO ABOUT IT?   Is there any tool I can use to adjust the original (or imported) file's SIZE and EXIF data to match the file LR has? Any way to override or change how LR does duplicate detection?
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http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html
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In addition to my images, I have a growing collection of background and reference information relating to the subject or location of the images.
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Being a digital archivist dealing primarily with pages digitized from the turn of the 20th Century for a religious sect I am highly involved in the usage of keywords. Each page of a work, be it either a volume of a newspaper or a book, contains keywords. I do not use side-car files but instead incorporate my keywords directly into the resultant TIF file.
So I used your posting to see what the answer was. To that end I am presently working on a 1922 title, Thirty-One Years of Organized Work in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana by Church of the Brethren from 1891 to 1922, that will consist of slightly over 500 pages. To test your question I placed the title of the work as a keyword. I then used Bridge's find ability. It did not work.
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So. The longest string I have tested to date is 120 characters, the title of the work minus the commas. I suspect that Curt is correct in his assumption that it is limited by the operation system. I tested this theory by incorporating a double string (without the commas) of my book's title. This was 241 characters including the space between the duplicated title. The search was successful. A triple set of the title returned no hits.
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So, with regards to your specific question, yes you can put the photos in the same folder as where the .lrcat is located, I can't see any harm, but I also don't think you need to do the work to make that happen. You can pretty much leave your photos where they are (which is easier and less time consuming) than moving them to the .lrcat folder, and easier and less time consuming than moving them at all.
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