Missing catalogs

When I opened Lightroom 5 all my catalogs and all my files from most recent months are missing.

First, use File->Open Recent and see if the catalogs listed there are the ones you want.
If not, then use your operating system to search for files ending with .LRCAT and if you find them, you can double-click on them to open them.

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Missing catalog: help me recover Organizer albums/content

When a drive was replaced April 2014 on a Win7 computer, the old Adobe Elements Organizer 12.0.0.0 catalog went missing.
The default new one has been in use since for new projects. It has been Optimized and Repaired, no change.
I'm trying to find the old catalog for use. Searched for *.TLY *.TLU *.BUC and catalog.*
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\CONVERTED ELEMENTS 9\catalog_1.pse12db is 312MB.
Double-click or right-click/Open of this file does nothing.
Help!
There is a .buc file from January 2014 on an external drive, but no .TLY or .TLU with it and "catalog restore" does not cope when browsed to it.
There is a .tly from March 2013 that is currently in the process of "restoring" to a new location, but that's missing more than a year of projects.
Any help will be appreciated.

Andaleeb,
Thanks for your reply. I had asked earlier if it’s possible to retrieve it from a backup of Elements 7 program files. I did not specifically do a backup of the catalog because at that time I didn’t know I had to in order to import it into the new Elements 11. I had planned to just install 11 & move over the catalog then remove E7 from my computer. Unfortunately things didn’t happen that way due to my computer having troubles. As was noted in an earlier thread.
Alisa

Missing catalogs in user account

Running Win 7.
Have to move to new win 7 user account ( Win 7 bug!) I have three catalogs in old account, can't see any of them in new user account. Default 'my catalog' is empty. They do not appear in 'browse' either. The pictures are there in 'My Pictures' and appear properly in old user account. How do I get them?
Thanks

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1. I don't think PSE8 is 'seeing' images in correct user acct.... windows>properties='No Selection'?
You have to have exactly one thumbnail selected do do Window > Properties.
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2. Can I copy pse8db to c:/users/correct/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalog/My Catalog?
I think you're asking whether you can copy a catalog.pse8db file to that folder? Every PSE catalog is a separate folder, containing a file catalog.pse8db. If you want to move or copy a catalog, you should copy the entire folder, not just the catalog.pse8db file. It's best to use PSE's File > Catalog > Move command.
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3. Can I rename 'master catalog' to 'My catalog"?
Yes, unless there is already a catalog folder of that name in the same parent folder. Use File > Catalog > Rename to do the rename -- it will tell you if there is already a catalog of the same name.

Missing catalog

I created a 2nd catalog in the PSE 10 Organizer, but now I cannot find my original catalog. Where is it hiding? The Find > Catalog... option doesn't list any catalogs. I'd appreciate any help with this.

Ken, thanks for response but no luck. I did a search of the internal and external hard drives with various version of that file name. I probably should have mentioned that I have a Mac OS.
Anyone have any other ideas? I find it a little weird that the catalog just vanished into thin air. Sheesh.

LR 5.7 Missing Catalog After Update

I just updated LR 5.7 last night and the catalog that I was using yesterday has disappeared. I looked for it in "open recent catalogs" but nothing I open yields the results from yesterday. I didn't back it up before I installed, obviously a huge mistake but I've never had issues in the past, so didn't anticipate it being a problem now. My last backup is from ten days ago and I want to weep if that's the backup I have to go back to. HELP?!

I have 3 catalogs (LR3, LR4, and LR4-catalog2 ) Iam able to open both the others its just telling me this one is not able to be opened ( which has all my most recent work for clients on it ) I have tried all ways to open it. I have even deleted to new catalog that was made and tried to open the last one and the LR wont open at all. Not sure what I clicked on when it opened the first time It asked to create new catalog so I said yes... UGH! Thank you for your help I tried reimporting with the new catalog hoping that my work would still be there but its gone. Not sure if I can fix this sad because I have orders for clients that were almost done. and Personal family photos too.

Missing catalog content

hi all,
after i ran the report bbp_ccm_transfer_catalog, i checked the payload in sxmb_moni. There was no catalogmodel and catalogcontent

Hi,
Select the Force Initial Transport checkbox when you are transfering for the first time. Also define the backend system in SRM with the name CATALOG. It would be a dummy entry no configurations are required.
Regards,
Jitesh Talreja

Missing catalog after upgrade

I just opened Lightroom and was prompted to do an upgrade (4.3) now my catalogs are all gone. How can I get them back?

Hopefully you know where you put the catalog(s) on your HD. If so, you can go to File/Open Catalog and in the box that opens navigate to the catalog you want. Or it may be listed in Open Recent. LR will close and relaunch with the selected catalog. Or when you initially launch LR hold down the Ctrl key and a dialog will open in which you select the catalog. Or navigate in Explorer/Finder to the desired catalog (*.lrcat) and double-click on it.
If you don't remember where they are, you will have to do a system search for .lrcat files.

Lightroom 2 can find the missing catalog

Lightroom operated flawlesly until it crashed so I deleted and
re-installed Lightroom 2 but that did not remove the question mark ("?") on the right corner of every file.
When I point Lightroom to the correct file the following message appears:
"THE FILE IS ASSOCIATED WITH ANOTHER FILE IN THE CATALOG. Each file can only be associated with one photo"
I do not understand how that is possible or how to correct it. Any Suggestions?
Lightroom is a Miracle when it works and useless when it does not. This is my third frustrating day trying to correct the problem.
I am very disappointed that no one from Adobe Lightroom who monitors this forum can solve the "?" problem.
I will have to purchase another software program to convert the RAW files and that sucks.
Lightroom performed perfectly before it crashed and now it is absolutely worthless as it can not see any of my RAW files.
Hersul
PC running XP Pro with service pack 3 installed

well...I guess just writing to you gave me the 'courage' to try it myself...and it worked. I added back (not meaning to) a couple of discarded images but that was easy to find as the ? remained.
Oh, LR had placed a lot of images in the trash....so I removed them into a separate folder...and then I copied them into the 'copy' of my raw images.
Let me know if that works for you.

[MBA original] startup and disk problems

My old faithful Air has started to have some serious problems.
A couple of months ago, it started to behave sluggishly, beachballing in all applications, and then when I tried to restart, it wouldn't get past the logo/catherine wheel screen. I could get it to boot into Lion Recovery, where disk utility said that the disk could not be repaired. At this point I zeroed the disk (level one secure erase), restored from my Time Machine backup, and was up and running again - for a couple of days. Then the same symptoms recurred again, with the same results.
I began to suspect a failing hard drive, and had it replaced with a new one.
The Air worked fine since then, until a couple of days ago, when the sluggishness and beachballing recurred, followed by failure to start up. Again, I booted into Lion recovery, and ran Disk Utility again. This time it found many many problems with missing catalog entries, invalid nodes etc, and told me the disk could not be repaired. Once again I erased it (the new disk this time) and restored from a back. Last night, the symptoms recurred again. This time, though, when I got into Disk Repair, it found a similar list of errors, and it claimed to have repaired the disk (green status), but still it would not restart. I tried starting in safe mode, and the progress bar got about 1/3 of the way across, then disappeared and the machine would not start up. I tried starting with the D key held down but couldn't get hardware diagnostics running.
I'm beginning to suspect sofware causing disk issues rather than the disk itself, so I tried performing a clean install of Lion from Recovery. The machine started up OK after the clean install, (with my user account and files still intact, which suprised me - I was expecting to have to use Migration Assistant to get them back). At this point, I plugged in my Western Digital USB drive into the Air and copied all my documents and files onto it, in case I need to get at them without using the Time Machine backup. Then I shut the machine down.
This morning it has started up OK again, and I'm typing this on it right now.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any advice if you managed to fix it permamently?
Is it possible to run the hardware diagnostic from the original install disks for the Air system software? _Should_ I be able to get to hardware diagnostics by holding down D on startup on this model? If I've got Lion up to date installed, can I get to the internet version of hardware diagnostics via Lion Recovery, like on newer Airs?
If it happens again, my last ditch effort is going to be zeroing the disk, doing a clean Lion install on the erased disk, then just copying back my documents and reinstalling key applications (Office, Photoshop) from the original install disks/images. Does that sound like a sensible approach?
Otherwise, I'll have to try and talk my boss into letting me get a new one!
best regards,
Matt

If DU reports errors it cannot repair you will
need to use a utility like Tech Tool Pro or Disk
Warrior
DU can't repair and I got these errors:
"Invalid B-tree node size"
"Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)"
DU didn't show the SMART status. But I saw it in Disk Warrior and it said the disk was ok.
I tried Disk Warrior and it's just be stuck at the same place. This never goes away and so I just killed it:
"Rebuilding directory ...
Step 5: Locating directory data ..."
In DU when I highlight disk0s3, I get this in the lower left hand corner:
"Mount Point: not mounted"
So maybe I just need to re-mount disk0s3?
Anymore ideas, guys? Thanks.

Did 2.1 fix anything?

I've posted several times about the recurring slideshow module bugs that were introduced with 2.0, and weren't fixed for 2.1. The cropping bug wasn't fixed, either. When I select an image to crop in 2.1, it will often revert to the ratio that I used with the previous photo.
Both of these bugs are extremely annoying.
Just wondering: what DID 2.1 fix?
I'm using LR on an Intel Mac with OS X 10.5.5.

> In other words, no.
Noted in that post was this link:
http://www.adobe.com/special/photoshop/Lightroom_21_ReadMe.pdf
In that link is this info:
New in Lightroom 2.1
The goal of this release is to address several bugs that were introduced with the release of Lightroom 2.0 and provide additional camera raw support. A comprehensive list of issues fixed in this release is included below:
Stability and High Severity Bugs - Fixed
Lightroom could crash when switching to or from the web module on Windows Vista 64.
Selecting a custom camera profile or using auto-white balance could cause a spinning ball.
Preference files pointing to missing catalogs could prevent Lightroom from progressing past the registration dialog.
Errors could occur when attempting to create a virtual copy with a computer that has a processor that is not SSE2 enabled. (This is a method of delivering instructions to the processor which was introduced with the Pentium 4 processor. It should not have affected a significant number of modern machines.)
Modal dialogs could try to appear on a disabled second monitor, causing Lightroom to appear hung or unresponsive.
When a DNG file was selected for export to a derivative TIFF file and it is added to the catalog at export there was a possibility that one of the files could be treated as a sidecar within Lightroom such that deleting one file deletes both.
Performance Bugs - Fixed
Attempting to import a large number of images that already exist within the Lightroom catalog could cause significant performance delays.
The image counts that appear next to each folder could appear to populate slowly.
Lightroom scanned the calibration profile directory excessively when switching collections.
The 'three dot' indicator in the grid view persisted longer than necessary.
The Mac 64-bit version did not have SSE2 optimization, causing reduced rendering speeds.
Memory leaks in the Library and Develop modules decreased Lightroom performance.
Applying keywords via presets or on import could greatly decrease import performance.
Folder synchronizing could experience significant performance decreases.
Keywords and Metadata - Fixed
Keywords from Lightroom 1.4 were not included on image export by default. (Please note that catalogs upgraded from Lightroom 1.4 using Lightroom 2.1 will not have this issue, but catalogs upgraded from
1.4 using 2.0 will still need to use the script posted at our technical support site at: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb405074.)
Lightroom stopped rendering previews prior to completion on files with metadata changes applied by other applications.
The "Any Searchable Field" search option did not find caption text.
Photoshop Interop - Fixed
Edit in Photoshop did not work correctly or at all for some customers.
Copyright Status and Info URL fields were not transferred when a file was created from Lightroom for use in Photoshop.
XMP metadata from the IDimager application was not carried over during an Edit in Photoshop operation.
Files with an ampersand in the file name were not added back to the Lightroom Library after an Edit in Photoshop session.
Choosing to Edit in Photoshop from a folder with an apostrophe in the name would cause the feature to fail.
Certain NEF files were rotated incorrectly when opened into Photoshop from Lightroom.
Miscellaneous Troubling Items - Fixed
Re-importing missing photos from an exported catalog could ignore the setting 'preserve old settings as virtual copy.'
Choosing to undo a slider adjustment in Lightroom on Windows would cause two undo steps to occur if the slider was still under active mouse selection.
Lights Out mode could flicker on Windows when the detail panel was selected in the Develop module.
The crop aspect ratio could revert to the last selected ratio even when it had been reset to original.
The spot tool might not switch from clone to healing mode upon request if the brush was above a certain size.
Certain ORF files were not read by Lightroom.
During import and conversion to DNG, file renaming could use the operating system's date stamp rather than the files EXIF date.
Panoramic images printed with a portrait layout and utilizing the auto layout functionality would cause images to print at a low resolution.

Error of Managing the interactive dashboards

When I log in to Oracle BI Presentation Services, and choose Settings > Administrator, then click the Manage Interactive Dashboards link, I click the permissions (Lock logo) of one Dashboards, the error appeared:
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I encountered this issue when I migrated a dashboard from a Dev server to Test server. I forgot to set up a couple of new Catalog Groups in the Test environment which existed in our Dev environment that had access to this dashboard. I had TAR-ed the Shared Directory structure for the dashboard and reports and moved it to Test. This error message popped up when I was checking security for the dashboard. Once I created the two missing Catalog Groups I was able to successfully open the Manage Interactive Dashboard.

Is there any way to recover files when the back up catalog has been deleted accidently. I can see a preview of the photos, but I cannot access or edit them. They say "the folder cannot be located" and "the photo is missing". I have gone through multipl

I can see a preview of the photos, but I cannot access or edit them. They say "the folder cannot be located" and "the photo is missing". I have gone through multiple Adobe tutorials to try and recover them to no avail. Any tips?

Backup catalogs wouldn't have helped with this problem anyway, but naturally, you shouldn't delete backup catalogs for a while.
The solution to reconnecting the folders is given here: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

Catalogs, Missing Files, and Question Marks for Beginners

Hello, fellow non-power-users. I just wanted to post something here that I've learned with my travails and travels using LightRoom 3. In the past, Adobe has paid me to write for them, and I'm a professional writer. So why am I doing this for free? Because I wish to heck I'd understood this stuff before I dove into LR. Somehow, even with reading a book on the program, I didn't really get it.
1) Most of the people who are kind enough to post and help on Adobe support and other forums on the Interwebs are power users of Lightroom. The great thing is, they often know what they're talking about. The bad thing is, many of them don't understand what it's like to be a non-power-user who really has no intention of becoming a power user. Be very, very careful before you try to take their advice about any large issue that might have serious consequences for your photos.
2) LR has about forty million ways to do things, so it can be overwhelming, and you may also receive lots of contradictory information about how to accomplish stuff. If you're like me---not a professional photographer, more a refugee from the annoying land of iPhoto who just needs a *little* more power and customization---you may have trouble streamlining, figuring out the few things you actually need the program to do for you. Try some introductory videos and tutorials, even books, but don't expect them to solve your real problems with the program.
3) Before you begin, grasp a few concepts:
     a. When you're working in LR, you're working with a "catalog." It shows you images of your photos, but these aren't really your photos. Your actual photos are *files* that live on your computer somewhere. Think of it as a slideshow projected on a wall: you can see the photos on the wall, but they aren't the "real photo." If you walked up to the wall and painted on the projection of a slide, the "real photo" file would not be changed. What LR does is keep track of those wall paintings for you, so if you wanted to print up a version of that slide and include your brush strokes, LR could do that for you. The catalog is a type of database.
     b. So where are those real photos, those files? Probably all over your computer in different places. You may want to consolidate them all in one place before you start using Lightroom. Here's why: once Lightroom thinks your "real photo" is in a certain place, it doesn't want you to move the "real photo" file. Say you have a photo called that someone sent in email. You put it on your desktop. Now you are tempted to drag-n-drop it onto Lightroom. DO NOT DO IT. Because someday, you might want that photo to not clutter up your desktop. You'll drag it to another folder on your hard drive, and BOOM, now Lightroom cannot find the photo.
You can't work on the photo from within Lightroom. You can't print it. Lightroom will show a question mark ? on its wall-projector slide of your photo file. Often when someone moves files on their computer, it's not a single file on a desktop. It's a bunch of things they are trying to organize. Adobe knows this, which is why they have a "find missing photos" command. They know you are likely to screw this up. The command will show you those missing files. You have to select them individually by hand and search your computer for them to relink. You can spend a lot of time relinking photos. It sucks. Really sucks.
     c. If you do need to move stuff, Lightroom does let you do it, but only from within the program. So, open up LR, and look in the left-hand column for an item called "Folders." (You will be in Library mode to make this happen.) You can move your "real photo" files around from within this area. It is a clunky process and an enormous pain in the butt.
     d. Rant time: For some reason, one of the most sophisticated and long-lived software companies in history, the developers that completely changed the worlds of art, design, photography, and publishing--you got it, Adobe--have not been able to solve this problem and chase down your real photo files if you moved them from within the Finder, the way you normally move files on a computer. Go figure. (Irrelevant note: I've been using their products since Pagemaker 1.0 and it's sort of astonishing that they've never solved this problem, in LR or InDesign or elsewhere. It's like publishing a magazine using Quark in 1995, rushing to find the messed-up links before you hand-carry your ZIP drive over to the printer. Hee hee.)
4) Decide whether you want to divide your photos into a few separate catalogs, or whether you want one enormous catalog ("master catalog"). Then try not to change your mind.
Here is my story:
Summary: I started with multiple catalogs and regret merging them into one.
I hired a photographer/supposedly-LR guy to set up my LR and he suggested multiple catalogs, each easily saveable (catalog AND its photos) to a single external hard drive. I only made two: one for family photos, one for a big art project. Whenever I asked questions online about using LR, everyone told me to combine all photos into one big master catalog. Eventually I did, and I regret it. As a non-power-user, I screwed up something in the merging process, and ended up with a lot of question-mark, missing-photo problems, and a bunch of duplicate photos to boot. What a waste of time.
If you're not a pro, you probably don't need a gigantic single database to deal with. If you're someone who uses Dropbox or another non-Adobe cloud method to store and work with your photos, and you don't have unlimited storage, you may find it way more convenient to have a few different catalogs.
Power users probably don't screw up the process of merging all their catalogs into one. Power users have, from what I've read online, many complicated ways of making a big master catalog work the way they want, say for working on small numbers of files while traveling with a laptop, and then getting that work into the giant master catalog when they get back home to their studios.
But I am not a power user, and if you're reading this, you probably aren't a power user either. So perhaps my experience will be useful to you.
5) Paying for plug-ins to help with all this nonsense.
You can buy plug-ins that help you do things this application should already do by itself. For example, "Duplicate Finder" goes through and finds all the photos that you've accidentally imported more than once into your catalog. Then you can painstakingly go through, figure out which copy to keep, and delete them. Often, these "duplicate" photos are not duplicates of your "real photo" file. But at some point you moved your "real photo" file while you were tidying up your computer files, and later accidentally re-imported that photo into your LR catalog. Since LR doesn't follow your files around when you move them from within your computer/Finder, LR thinks it's a whole brand-new file. It's like your projector is projecting three images on the wall at the same time. You have to figure out which one to keep, which one will save your wall-painting changes, etc. And it is a huge pain in the butt.
Note that you can click a box when importing photos, a box that says "Do not import suspected duplicates." This can be really helpful for avoiding duplicates in the first place. It is not, however, infallible.
OK, I hope this helps someone somewhere. I'm going to go back to the horribly time-consuming task of relinking files and trying to make my brain work the way LR's brain works.

Glad to help!
Another good thing to do from time to time is to boot from your install CD, then choose "Disk Utility", then do a check (and repair, if necessary) of your boot disk.
You can't verify or fix a disk you've started from, thus the need to boot from a CD. You can boot from a second hard disk to do this test if it has MacOS on it.

Files are missing in the Catalog Folders

I have upgreaded to Elements 10 and when doing the catalog conversion many of the folders in the new catalog are missing the files(photos). When I right-click on those folders and try to add the files I can see the missing files attempting to transfer but on completion I receive this: :The files or folders selected to import did not contain any supported file types or the files are already in this folder"-BUT-the files are NOt in the folder in the catalog. They are in the folder on my computer as I am able to access them easily--They simply did not end up in the catalog's respective folders. I am using Windows XP Pro and all my Folders and Files are on an external drive and are saved there when I download the photos from my camera. I have not had this issue before--How might I get these files into the folder in the catalog?-I tried setting up a new catalog and attempted to convert again with the same results-Please advise-Thanks in advance

Switch your Organizer's Display to use "Thumbnail View" and you should see your photos. The "Folder Location View" does not show photos if they're in subfolders of the selected folder.
Ken

Missing Photos Already in Catalog

Photos in one of my Collections are shown as Missing, and I can not update them because Lightroom thinks they are Already in Catalog. In fact there are two versions of all these photos in the Catalog grid view: one is shown as Missing and the other is not missing. How can I update the Collection photos without manually recreating the Collection?
In detail: I had some photos in my Lightroom Catalog. I added them to a Lightroom Collection. All was well.
Later, outside of Lightroom, I decided to copy the photos to a new folder on a new hard drive. Then I deleted the original photos and folder.
The LR Catalog now shows two instances of these photos, a good one and a Missing Photo. When I ask to Locate in Finder the good one, LR accurately shows it s location on my hard drive. Both instances of the photos have identical names and thumbnails. The LR Collection shows only one instance of the photos and they all show Missing Photos icons.
When I try to Locate the Missing Photo, I get this message "Already in Catalog. the file "xxx" is associated with another photo in the catalog. Each file can only be associated with one photo." In other words, I am unable to get the LR Collection to recognize the new location of the digital file.
If I delete the photo duplicate with the Missing Photo icon, the photo is removed from my Collection. This is not acceptable for two reasons: I have now 449 "Missing" images in this Collection and I do not want to manually list, delete and then replace each one. I think this is the job of an asset management database like Lightroom, and I depend on it to keep accurate track of everything.
It has been 17 days since I opened a Customer Support case and I have had numerous exchanges with the Adobe reps, including a 1.75 hr. phone conversation, and still no solution. Sometimes there seems to be a language problem but at other times a lack of product knowledge. Is there anyone out there that can help?

Ok, thanks for clarifying.
Lightroom does not create duplicates on its own. They arise usually because the user did something, perhaps accidentally. By any chance, did you ever tell Lightroom to "Synchronize Folders..." ?
Lightroom does not follow or find your photos if you move them outside of Lightroom. My recommendation for newcomers to Lightroom is to always move or rename files and folders from inside of Lightroom.
If I understand your situation properly, I think the solution to your mess is as follows: First ... in Windows or Mac Finder (the only time I ever recommend moving things in WIndows or Mac Finder is to fix or unfix previous moves in Windows or Mac Finder) ... move (cut and paste, not copy and paste) the photos back to where they were. This should connect the copy that is now "bad", and fixing the problem in your collections. Second, in Lightroom, delete the copies on the new hard drive, which should now be disconnected. Now, you should have one copy of everything (including in your collections) that is connected and usable in Lightroom. Finally (optionally), if you want your photos to reside on the new hard drive, then inside Lightroom, move them to the new hard drive.

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