Photos are black or grey in Photoshop Lightroom

When you view your photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom on Windows, only a black or grey rectangle is displayed; you cannot see your photos.
The linked
Adobe Technote provides more information

This could mean any of the following:
You moved, renamed or deleted the photos (or the folders that contain them) outside of Lightroom (hint: if this is what you did, don't do that any more)
If the photos are on an external drive, the drive may be asleep or turned off
If you use Windows, it could mean that the external drive has been assigned a different drive letter
The fix is described here: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders
If the problem is a different drive letter in Windows, you could simply change the drive letter back to what it was yesterday

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