Lightroom all of a sudden says "This file could not be found"?
This happened over night and I don't know what to do about it?
Photos aren't contained in the catalog, their locations and adjustment settings are, but the photos themselves are just on the hard-drive, somewhere. If something else, outside of LR deleted those photos or moved them, then LR wouldn't know that, and indicate they are missing.
Are the photos still on your hard-drive or not? And what is an example path where LR thinks they should be?
Are they in a different location on the hard-drive than they used to be?
When you Import photos into LR it remembers where they are, but if you do something to them outside of LR, not using LR's Folder Panel, then it will still expect them to be at the Import location, and if they are not, then you'll see question marks or exclamation points with a message about them not being where they originally were.
One mistake that could have been made, is that you imported photos into a LR catalog and that catalog remembers them one place, then you opened a new LR catalog and did a Move import, which would move them some other location and they'd be remembered in that second catalog correctly, but not in the first catalog, anymore. If you only have one LR catalog then this is probably not what happened.
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CV02N Error in Windows 7: This file could not be found!
After uploading a file to the DMS, we could usually double click the file name and the file will be opened automatically in WORD.
This was succeeded in Windows XP.
But in Windows 7 environment, after clicking the file name, the WORD is started, no file opened. It says: This file could not be found!.
Is there any solution about this issue? Thanks!
BTW, I have tried GUI 720. But the issue remained the same.jcaverly wrote:
I imported from the external drive, and see 'Add' highlighted, now what.
Sorry I'm being so dense, all the language seems arbitrary.
Now what? You've imported the photos, do whatever you want with them.
You should really consider reading or watching some basic tutorials about Lightroom, such as
Lightroom 5 - Free Quick Start Guide PDF eBook | The Lightroom Queen -
I paid for and downloaded a song, but it won't play saying the file could not be found. It says this even when I click on the song IN the itunes store, so I can't even listen to the sample now??
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iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Open iTunes and immediately hold down the Option (alt) key (shift on Windows), then guide it to the new location of the library.
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Getting error message when trying to play songs from library saying original file could not be found
when trying to play songs from library, getting message saying original file could not be found .. my full library all says the same .. can anyone help ?
Hello Ceeclass,
I suggest this article named iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads found here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408.
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Itunes says "Original File could not be found"
I've moved my Itunes music folder to a different location to accommodate more music. I've also created a new library in another location with other music (reasons aside). Also, the Advanced pane shows the correct location of the Itunes files. All worked just fine, opening Itunes with option key to be able to choose the correct library. Now, when I click almost any tune in after opening the original library, Itunes says "Original File could not be found - would you like to locate it?" I could but I certainly don't want to do this for each and every song. How can I do this "en masse" and How can I avoid this in future? Thanks in advance for any help.
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My itunes library is 5+ yrs old now and therefore 10,000 songs, numerous podcasts, videos etc etc. not to mention loads of rating information, hundreds of playlists created from last played, rating, genre etc etc, therefore i cannot afford to loose all this valuable data attached to my itunes library. However recently half of my library appeared with exclamation marks all over it, though i cannot work out why as all the music files are in the location specified in preferences, path etc.
It seems that itunes just wont bother looking at this path and syncing with whatever is there. Yeah fine i can add the whole itunes music folder again and it will import every song again so i go from 10,000 to 20,000 songs, i could deal with this with a dupe eliminator that are freelu available on the net but the new imports without the exclamation marks cleary dont have the historical data of play counts, last played ratings etc etc attached to them so its no different from deleting and starting again.
I have tried all the options in this post and none of them deal with the simple issue of just look at the location that it listed in the preferences and search for the file u think is missing on mass!!!
Its not rocket science so why havent Apple fixed this. !!!
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Came home to work remotely, opened the catalog from dropbox and I can see the photos in library mode. But once I go to develop, LR is saying "The file could not be found"
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Anyone know how I can make the catalog find that smart previews cache?Thanks for the quick response.
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And there are exclamation points next to each image.. but again.. drive is not connected. But I've used smart previews before and that was the fix to working without the original raw images available.
However the smart previews don't seem to be working this time as I cannot edit the images. -
With Windows 7 I upgraded itunes to 11. Now in my itunes library, when I click on a song "original file could not be found" comes up. This happens with over 2000 songs, but it seems to be ones I recorded from cd's. Locate does not seem to work. Has anyone else had this problem?
Highlight a song that is supposedly missing, press CTRL+I to Get Info, say no when asked to locate the file, then look at the summary tab. Where does iTunes "think" the file should be? Where is it really? You may need to give a configuration file a minor tweak.
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Then what am I looking at if a row of thumbsis displayed at bottom and an image in the middle area?
jcaverly wrote:
I imported from the external drive, and see 'Add' highlighted, now what.
Sorry I'm being so dense, all the language seems arbitrary.
Now what? You've imported the photos, do whatever you want with them.
You should really consider reading or watching some basic tutorials about Lightroom, such as
Lightroom 5 - Free Quick Start Guide PDF eBook | The Lightroom Queen -
I am not sure if the synching will pull the audio from my phone and replace the 'not working' files on my i-tunes, or if it will replace the working audio on my phone with the non-functioning audio on my pc.
Thanks for any insight...No it won't. You are getting that message because those song are no longer in your my music folder and itunes doesn't know where to look for the file.
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When I try to play a song iTunes says "Original file could not be found"
I am getting a "!" next to my songs, and the message that the file cannot be used because the original file cannot be found.
iTunes' library keeps track of where your tracks are located. If you move a track, or keep your music on an external drive and don't turn it on before starting iTunes, or your computer's file system becomes corrupted, or iTunes' library gets corrupted, or..., then iTunes goes to where it thinks the file is located, can't find it, and you get !
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i dont know what to do
Did you delete the files from your computer?
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somehow my itunes program became corrupted when i tried to update my Quicktime player. the upgrade was interupted and aftward when i tried to boot my itunes, an error window popped up saying that this file could not be found, "MSVCR80.dll " I attempted to reinstall a repair about a dozen times but that's not fixing the problem. i do not want to uninstall as i may lose data that hasn't been synched yet. how can i get this file from Apple and manually instal it?
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iTunes
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Apple Mobile Device Support (if this won't uninstall move on to the next item)
Bonjour
Apple Application Support
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