Lightroom 3.2 catalog export failure "Photo previews could not be found"
I just attempted to use File > Export as Catalog... on my notebook. After the export completed a message was generated that reported Photo previews could not be found. (997) and listed all of the missing previews. I reviewed a random sample of the listed file names and the previews clearly exist. The LR catalog on the notebook contains 1596 photos in 17 folders.
I would really like to move these photos to my desktop's LR catalog without having to recreating the previews.
Can anyone help me with this issue?
Bain Lothian
Lr occasionally does this when it determines that there is an issue with the original previews. Typically, this would be were the previews had been created in a version prior to Lr3.
Have you tried opening the exported catalog? If not, do so as the previews may well have exported. If if they haven't it may be best to recreate them from scratch. If nothing else it will give you some reassurance that there's been no corruption.
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