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To get my pictures showing I have to go to develop mode and view them. The loading is taking considerably longer than it used to as well. I've been into my preference pane and can't see what to do. As per a tutorial I upped my "Camera Raw Cache Settings" to 50 GB. The problem hasn't coincided with this change however. I don't know what is going on but I am frustrated to have all photos load but not show up in Grid or Loupe mode.
Any ideas? I have over 7,000 photos in library. I've validated and checked library and it comes back okay.
Thanks for your help.
My computer is a newer 27" imac so I should have plenty of juice to run the program. Hard drive space isn't an issue as I have a 1TB.

Sounds like a corrupted preview cache. Let's test that theory. Close LR. Find your catalog on your hard drive, and rename the Previews.lrdata or move it to another location - you can delete it later when we know the new one's ok. Now restart LR, go to Grid view, select all and go to Library menu > Previews > Render Standard Previews. Hopefully that'll bring back your previews and if everything looks correct, you can then delete the previous one.

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