"File is Offline or Missing"???

Hello Gang,
Total newbie question here. Three days ago I loaded LR3 on my MacPro and imported some recent RAW files from Bridge CS3 and everything works perfect. Today I decided to retrieve some old RAW stuff that was languishing on an old Win 98 PC. I burned a CD-R via Roxio Drag and Drop of 600 of those older files. Before I started I made sure the disks were formatted so that my Mac could read them. I imported them into LR3 and everything looked solid. The Histograms were functional in the Develop mode and all tools were working fine. However, once I removed the disk to start working on the newly imported files I noticed that all of the pictures had a "?" attached to them along with a black dialog box across the top of the image stating "The file named CRW_0950.CRW is Offline or Missing." I can see the file picture fine in the Library, but once I switch to the develope module the histogram disappears and the tools will not function. If I load the disk again all the info returns. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I thought that once I imported the files I could start developing them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mike

you probably imported the pics in the database and left them fysically on the CD. Have a good look at the import dialogue. You can copy the files during import to a new location (your harddisk). For now copy the files with you OS to the harddisk. Than let LR update the old folder location to the new folder location. (right click, or menu Library find missing photo's)

Similar Messages

1.4.1 Windows: File is offline or missing

Some photos I want to work on in my catalog are giving me the offline or missing error message. I may have burned them to a CD, but I didn't mean to delete them when I did, just make a copy. I'm sure they're still in their original folder, but what is the best way to get them back into Lightroom? Thanks.

Ok. I located the folder in the folders panel and found it was in red, not white. I clicked on it and went to library but the synchronize option was grayed out so I'm kind of stuck at this point. Thanks for your help.

Even though I can see my HDR image and it is in the Library in collections, when trying to move it I keep getting "offline or missing"

Being a beginner in Lightroom, What do I do about an image I can see and its in collections files in the library and develop but can,t be moved to desk top? I get a posting that "source file are offline or missing.....Thanks

Please read these instructions: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

What does this message mean? : "The file name "DSC_0088.jpg" is offline or missing." ?

What does this message mean? : "The file name "DSC_0088.jpg" is offline or missing." I am in the process of importing photos from iPhoto (don't really know what I'm doing....) and when I look at one of the imported photos that message pops up. I know what "DSC_0088.jpg" is. I don't know what it means that the file is "missing".

CASpyr,
Thank you so much for your reply. I have a couple of bigger issues that I am dealing with: too many photos on my laptop: 40,000! (Of course I have to throw away many of them, but that is time consuming). I have a MacBook Pro and have primarily used IPhoto. I have recently purchased 2 external drives and have transferred my photos to those, but I need a basic education about how photos are stored, copied, etc. I have recently been told that iPhoto only shows and deals with jpegs, not RAW. About 1/3 of my photos are RAW, so I purchased Lightroom, so I could do more with those RAW photos. I have been told by my local Mac store that I need to delete most of my photos from iPhoto, because it's causing problems. I am reluctant to do so until I am sure that all of the keywords, descriptions and editing I have done to these photos is not lost when deleted from iPhoto. I just watched a tutorial about importing to Lightroom and got out of it that I needed to copy photos from iPhoto to a file on my desktop and then copy to Lightroom. I did that, it seemed to work. Then (because of my storage/memory issues) I deleted the photos (just a few as an experiment) from that desktop file. I'm guessing that is why Lightroom doesn't recognize the the photos. It seems that (learned from another tutorial) that one uses "Add" , Lightroom is only connecting to the source of the photo, not actually copying it to the program. Sounds like I need to use the "Move" feature instead. My ultimate goal is to store the photos on the 2 external drives and eliminate most of them from my lapop. So my basic questions have to do with what data (metadata??) is copied from iPhoto to an external drive (RAW???) and what isn't copied. Basic understanding issues,obviously…. I hope this isn't too much to ask. If you can recommend a book or resource that can explain those basic issues to me I'd appreciate it. I just got back from a trip and I can't download my new photos until I manage the rest!
Thanks,
Nancy

Don't understand "offline or missing files"

I was using Lightroom and set a preference so that I could try to edit one of the photos in Photoshop elements.
Now, when I open the folder that had that photo in it, ALL of the photos say offline or missing, even though the photo appears. If I right click on one of the subfolders and click "find missing files" it seems to find them in Photoshop Elements. When I choose Photoshop Elements, the folder just disappears! If I open Photoshop Elements, there is nothing there. I just don't understand!! I find Lightroom 3 very frustrating.

Once imported to LR, you must not move or rename any image-file except from within LR. What you see in the LR library is the cached preview. If you have moved or renamed a file directly with the explorer, then the file shows as missing. With "find missing files" you can re-link the file from its new position to the LR library.
What happens if you select "show in explorer"? Are the files there? With correct name?

All Photos in library are "offline or missing"

All photos say that the file is either offline or missing in LR4. Cannot export or do anything with any photos in library. I cannot find the files anywhere on the computer. Need help.

A-M:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions and Merry Christmas (hope this doesn't ruin your Christmas).I get "Unreadable Files
That message comes up because you're trying to import a file that is inside the iPhoto Library folder. That can't be done. That file is the file where your album information is stored. It belongs there. Don't mess with it.
First make a duplicate of your iPhoto Library folder - select it and type Command-D. Now launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select all the options except the last one regarding the orphaned files. That should rebuild your library and keep most of your organizational efforts intact. You may have some files that end up in a "Recovered" roll and/or album. See if that doesn't work. Good luck.

Voting file is offline

Hi Gurus,
I seen many time that Oracle Enterprise manager raise alert for "Voting disk offline". But this error does not appear into cluster alert log (alert<Node-name>.log). Even, I have checked O/S log (/var/log/messages) but never found error relevent to "disk inaccesscible"/"Disk distruption".
Please sugesst on following queries.
1. Why does this error only appears into the Enterprise manager.
2. If votidisk inaccesible, it means disk that contain votingdisk is suddenly become inaccessible to O/S. If yes, then why this disk error is not logging into O/S log.
3. Am i missing any log file to check.
Following is the error message on Enterprise menager.
CRS-1006:The OCR location +DATA is inaccessible
CRS-1604:CSSD voting file is offline
CRS-1606:The number of voting files available, 0, is less than the minimum number of voting files required, 1, resulting in CSSD termination to ensure data integrity
CRS-1605:CSSD voting file is online
Thanks & Regards,
Rajdeep

Hi,
To me it seems to be EM bug. Are you using EMI or EMGC?? Check for bugs. Does the ASM alert logs gives any information regarding +DATA getting offline? Can you paste the output of
crsctl query css votedisk
also
cluvfy comp vdisk -n <node1>,<node2>
Anand

Copying previews to desktop when files are offline

I've just moved over from Aperture to Lightroom and am so far very happy with the transition but I've noticed it doesn't appear possible to copy previews of files onto the desktop when the main files are offline. This is something that WAS possible in Aperture.
Am I missing something or this a feature that Lightroom doesn't support?
THANKS

Apologies for not being very clear. I work as a photographer from a number of different locations. I have my main image files stored on my home server and this is fine for when I'm working at home. But I need 24/7 access to my files for emailing low-res previews.
In Aperture, I was able to drag a preview from the library onto my desktop regardless of whether the originals were online. The size of this file was obviously a lot smaller than the original JPG but perfectly fine for emailing off as a low-res preview.
I don't seem to be able to achieve this same funcionality in Lightroom. If I try and drag an image on the desktop when my originals are offline I get presented with a 'no entry' symbol and the export function informs me that Lightroom cannot find the original file.
Hope that's a bit clearer. Thanks

I can't open pages files from USB and iCloud due to : "The necessary file index.xml is missing".

I can't open pages files from USB and iCloud due to : "The necessary file index.xml is missing". Original file is written on iMac (2014) and saved to an USB stick and then transferred till macBook Pro (2009, Yosemite) for editing. Then I shared the files by iCloud but I am not able to open them on iMac again. Niether can I use the USB stick to transfer the edited files back. I'm running Pages '09 4,1 (923) on the macBook and Pges 5.5.2 (2120) on the iMac.
Håkan

Pages 5.5.2 is extremely incompatible with even other Macs let alone the vast majority of PC and MsWord users out there, so not a good idea to leap into the fire with both eyes shut.
After having done that to the first Pages 5 files, Apple has repeatedly done it to even the most minor point updates. Apple can't even anticipate its own erratic changes let alone what everyone else needs doing.
Peter

I am running InDesign CS5.5 and trying to open an In Design File but getting an error message. " Cannot open the file "PDavidLCover.indd". Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the file

I am running InDesign CS5.5 and trying to open an In Design File but getting an error message. " Cannot open the file "PDavidLCover.indd". Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the file me be open in another application."Please help I really need to get this file open.

Since you've shown us the folder contents it's a good bet it isn't in use (no lock file). And it doesn't look like the file is mis-named as there doesn't seem to be anything else there that would be the .indd file (but just in case, open it in TextEdit and paste the first few lines here so we can see what the file header says), so the most likely case is the file is damaged. Is that on a removable device of some sort?
You can try the tool at Repair corrupt InDesign Adobe files on Mac OS X or send me a link to the file by private message and I'll try the recovery tool I have for Windows.

Moved Itunes to an external drive. When prompted to update versions, the download would not install, now I get an error message indicating file msvcr80.dll is missing.

I moved my ITunes to an external drive. Whe I was prompted to run the update for a new version of Itunes, It downloaded but would not install. now when opening Itunes I get an error message indicating the file msvcr80.dll is missing. How can I restore this, and e

Try the following user tip:
Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates

HT5654 iTunes auto update downloaded and installed on 28/01/2014. iTunes now won't launch and error message states file MSVCR80.dll is missing. Tried uninstalling and downloading/installing again to no avail. Any clues?

iTunes auto-update dowloaded and installed on 28/01/2014. iTunes now won't launch and error message states file MSVCR80.dll is missing. Tried unistalling and downloading/installing again to no avail. Any clues?

Click here and follow the instructions. You may need to completely remove and reinstall iTunes and all related components, or run the process multiple times; this won't normally affect its library, but that should be backed up anyway.
(99269)

How to access/open rpd files in offline mode from client desktop

Hi All,
Please tell me what configuration settings I need to have on my desktop to access RPD files stored on BI server?
In our OBIEE environment, we have BI server installed on linux server, and I have installed BI admin tool on my desktop (Windows OS).
I need to know what settings I should configure in my NQSConfig.ini file on my desktop so that I can access rpd files stored on BI server...
I can access online RPD using BI server ODBC connectibity, but want to access other offline RPD files stored in repository directory on linux server where OBIEE 11g server installation is done.
Thanks and Regards
Santosh
Edited by: 910192 on 22-Feb-2012 08:09

Saichand,
Highly appreciate your response.
But wht I am looking for is how to access other RPD files stored in repository folder on server machine where BI server is running, from BI administration tool which is installed on my desktop
I am able to access default online repository on BI server using ODBC configuration from BI admin tool on my desktop, but want to access other rpd files (lets say sample rpd files which are installed on BI server machine) using (file->open-offline) option.
As per Jay, it seems it is not possible to access repositories other than online repository on BI server, and I will have to copy those rpd files on my desktop and then access using file->open->offline option in BI admin tool.
If you have any other way of doing this or have done this somehow , please let me know.
Thanks and Regards
Santosh

Getting error "Cannot open the file "*****.INDD". Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the file may be open in another application."

How to fix this problem
"Cannot open the file "*****.INDD". Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the file may be open in another application."

When I have seen this message it is either when I try to open a document with an older version of Indesign E.g. an indesign 2014 document with Indesign CC.
The other time I have seen it is to open an Indesign CC document with Indesign 2014 which does not have Mindsuite - a plugin I use. Mindsuite, as yet, has not upgrade the plugin for Indesign 2014 therefore it recognises that a the document was created withe a plugin that the 2014 version does not have installed.
I believe your problem will be something like that.

"File" and "View" are missing from the ribbon in Excel, MS Office 2011, please help!

"File" and "View" are missing from the ribbon in Excel, I'm running MS Office 2010. Please help!

Post your question on the MS Mac forums as it's their software you're having issues with: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac?auth=1

"File is Offline or Missing"???

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for