Lightroom synchronization trying to drop all my photos
Hello,
I recently installed OSX LR4, and was happily using it for a couple days on an upgraded LR3 catalog, but now when I go to synchronize any folder it will say (for example):
Import new photos (252)
Removing missing photos from catalog (252)
If I click "Show Missing Photos", it shows all the photos, and if I go to "Show In Finder" they are all there and there seems to be no recently modified files or anything suspicious looking. If I go ahead with the synchronization, I lose all the metadata, settings, etc from the photos. I also tried opening the old catalog in LR3 and the same issue exists.
Why is Lightroom doing this? Any ideas how to get around it? File permissions maybe?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide.
It seems related to http://forums.adobe.com/thread/608096
I am not using any special characters and haven't renamed any directories. When I try to create a new catalog, and then import the directory structure from the original, it seems to load up most of the metadata just fine, but in the "Folders" section, some of the subdirectories are shown as being all in lowercase when they aren't that way on the filesystem (e.g. LR shows "nex-5n", the filesystem shows "NEX-5N".
I'm scared of losing all the work I've done on this catalog
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