Searching for Missing Files-Elements 5.0

Elements 5.0--loaded photos from my camera using Elements. Added some captions using Elements. the next time I tried to retrive photos I got a screen saying "Searching for Missing Files" and the system started scrolling through files. Not sure why this is happening.

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Can't retrieve project from early Photoshop Elements 5.0 as program is searching for Missing Files. These were transferred from that computer and then lost HELP

When I bought my new laptop I transferred "My Pictures" onto a memory stick then onto the new laptop which are now lost. I have a very important family holiday/wedding still on my old computer in Photoshop Elements 5.0. The photos are there but when I open them I get a window where PE is "searching for missing file". Is there any way I can save these photos please?

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Organizer. not able to turn off "automatic search for missing files"

Organizer starts searching for missing files. files that i have deleted, and the programme just keep on forever searching for those already deleted files. When i try to turn off that function, the organizer just stops. Running the program on Imac 2010.

That's the thing with the Elements Organizer - once you start managing your media in it you must also use it for all subsequent maintenance so that it retains integrity.
To try and resolve the Find> all Missing Files crash problem go to File> Manage Catalogs and Repair your current catalog. Follow that with an Optimize. See if you can now find them without the crash.
If Find> All Missing Files is still causing a crash, you could try File> Reconnect> All Missing Files. As that searches your entire hard disk for one image at a time, and will take a very long time if you did a lot of deletions with your EasyDuplicateFinder program, wait for it to finish examining your catalog then cancel the attempt to find each image. Now in your organizer each of the missing files thumbnails will have a question mark at top left - you can then delete these from the catalog. After you've done quite a few retry Find> All Missing Files again to see if it will run without crashing.
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Error message "searching for missing file"

I have PS Elements 5.0 , I need some help , I get a message,searching for missing file,I am afraid my entire catalog of pictures has the same problem,but I do know I have an entire collection with this message on each picture,I tried to pay adobe for a person to walk me through this problem but 5.0 is no longer supported.Is there any one that can help me fix this problem ? I would really appreciate the help, Thanks BVFD1964
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For details on how/when this problem occurs and how to resolve this issue, please refer to: http://psekb.blogspot.in/2013/03/how-do-i-reconnect-missing-files-in.html
Let me know if you have any queries.
~Andromeda

Searching for missing files, using PSE6

After I have transfered a batch of photos using the -file -get photos -From files and folders, the thumbnails appear in " Organizer" but when I want to look at the photos in full screen they come up unclear and a dialogue box comes up ," searching for missing files" I then click on "browse" and the folder from which i have transfersd the photos, in "My Pictures" is not shown in the list. I have done this with an other folder of photos and it is also not shown in the list, as if they have dissapeared. The folders are still in " My Pictures"
I am totally frustrated with trying to get past first base with this program I have spent many hours trying to find a solution

It sounds like you may be encountered one of the drive-handling bugs in PSE. To diagnose that, download and run the free utility "psedbtool":
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Downloading,_Installing,_andhttp://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/
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Searching for missing files and damaged photo icon

I am trying to view photos that I have viewed in this program numerous times before but now when I click on the photos, I get a message that says "searching for missing files". Sometimes, the photo appears with a red icon below it that resembles a wripped photo. Does this mean my photo has been damaged by the program?

I too have been told to find them on my hard drive but still nothing comes up, I can find the picture name and then do a search, but nothing. I've tried several times and it just keeps saying seach for missing files not found. I can see my collection of pictures, but there blury and then when I try to click on them, it says searching for missing file and it gives me the file name, and then I've tried to go under my search and put that file name in and nothing comes up, I also got NO help from adobe and they want us to buy more products??? They could have warned us somehow on what happens if you move them or try and put them on disc, and that's what happen, I put some on disk or at least thought I did and then realized I didn't want to do that, so I hit the UNDUE and I guess it was so late or something, cuz I can see the pictues, just can't open them. I'm wandering if I need to have a expert see if he can get them off of Adobe, I really want the pictues I have graduation pictures on there and need them very much. Would love to have help from anybody. Please.
Thank you
K

Searching for Missing File Message

When I click on a picture in Organizer getting a message "searching for missing file". The picture opens ok, but then get the preceding message which eventually goes away.
Any suggestions as to why this is happening.
Thanks

It means you moved or renamed the file outside of PSE (e.g. with Windows Explorer). PSE is searching your folders for the new location, and it sounds like it is finding it. It is much better to only move photos and folders containing photos within PSE.

PSE5 "searching for missing file"

Whenever I click on a thumbnail picture it gives me the message "Searching for missing file". Some of the pictures I was able to view only hours ago and now they are apperently missing. I have not done anything differently with these pictures. When I click on browse to search for the missing file, it is unable to locate the picture. I am afraid I have just lost hundreds of pictures!

PSE keeps only the hard disk references (location) of the files imported. So, whenever any operation like file renaming, moving to some other location, editing etc happen to a file outside PSE, the file go missing in PSE. On double clicking a file, PSE tries to connect its thumbnail to the original file on hard disk and when it does not find the file, it shows "Reconenct" dialog.
To reconnect the file, you've 2 options - Auto Reconnect & Manual Reconenct
For Auto reconenct just double click the file and allow the dialog to search for file on your hard disk. This can be at times time consuming process.
You can also connect your files manually:
1) Type "Ctrl + K" on app. A preference dialog will open
2) Choose "Files" from left side and uncheck second preference to "Automatically search for and reconnect missing files".
3) Click "Ok" to save the settings
4) Double click a missing file to open manual reconnect dialog.
OR
4') To reconnect all missing files in one go --> Goto File menu --> Reconnect --> All missing files. An engine will search all the files that are missing from the catalog and a manual reconnect dialog will be shown..
5) Now, you can connect each file seperately by manually searching the hard disk.

Search for missing file - can't remove it

I keep getting "Searcing for missing file" I cancel it and shut the system down and it comes back every time. When I go into the pictures there is a little red broken box at the bottom of them. How do I stop this?

When you 'add' your pictures to Starter Edition, the program notes where the file is, and creates a reference thumbnail representation of the picture for you, so that you can work with a large collection of files in different places on your hard drive. If you move or delete any of your pictures, that will result in outdated references to your files in Starter Edition. That is what is meant by 'missing file'; the file has been moved, deleted, or renamed.
The way to make it stop is to delete the picture of your file (with the red icon) in Starter Edition, because it is no longer able to locate the original moved/deleted/renamed file.
The other way to fix it is to move the file back to wherever the program 'thinks' the original file is.
-Mark

I keep getting a pop up in my adobe photoshop element 10"searching for missing file-to locate this y

i need to learn how to find missing files in adobe photoshop elements 10.i unistalled the program and reinstalled it but it made no difference.i keep getting a persistant pop up telling me to search for the missing file.IN PLAIN ENGLISH how do i reconnect the missing files?thanks

hi :i tried the pref-files box and pressed ok twice and nothing happened
i checked off the automatically search for files and reconnect box both
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Searching for missing files?

Using LR4 and a Mac:
1. My main drive shows I have 42,619 photos, however, I also see that on my Macintosh HD I have folders for 2001 with 9 photos, 2009 with 0 photos and a folder for 2012 with 1297 photos. All 3 of these folders have a question mark next to them. I have no idea why these folders are here, because I store all of my photos on the external drive with the 42,619 photos. When I expand these folders I get photos with question marks indicating the photos are offline. Any idea what might be going on with these 1297 photos?
2. Is there a way to search all of LR to find any missing photos/videos that somehow became unlinked/offline?
Thanks!

Possibly at some point in the past you imported photos to your main drive rather than the external drive, and then moved them using the Finder.
Regardless, the command Library > Find All Missing Photos will find all photos in the catalog that don't currently exist on the hard drive.

When I open iMovie, the app searches for missing iPhoto files. These are files I deleted. I have to close about 30 dialog boxes before I can start using iMovie. How do I make this stop?

When I open iMovie (09), the app searches for missing iPhoto files. These are files I deleted. I have to close about 30 dialog boxes before I can start using iMovie. How do I make this stop?

So it seems the issue is when iMovie is wanting to creat thumbnails, if I ask it to ignore then it's fine but if not it hangs up searching for the video file.

Is there a Search for Unused files??

Hi, I'm on DW CS3 and maybe I'm being lazy here, but is there
a way to search for Unused files in your site ? My site could use
some cleanup and it would be a major help to have something like
this rather than scouring through every file one by one.
If this is a dumb question, my apologies. Many Thanks for any
help,
Frank B.

Thanks for the tip Randy. I've done what you suggested, but
in the orphaned files, I see things that I need, like an XML file I
need for the flash portion of my site.
I guess I should just search the orphaned files manually and
at least DW helped to narrow down the search.
Let me know if there is anything I'm missing.
Many Thanks for helping,...Frank B.

Search for Missing Links in This Folder option not working

I'm running InDesign CC 9.2.1, though this problem has persisted throughout the last few years and previous versions of InDesign. My operating system is OS 10.9.3. In early versions of InDesign, you could check the "Search for Missing Links in This Folder" option box when re-linking a missing link and the missing image would be highlighted in the finder window of the new image location. I did not keep track of what version of InDesign it was when this function ceased to work properly, but I would like to see if there is something I can do to make it work again.
The "Search for Missing Links in This Folder" check box is still in the finder window, and is always checked, so in theory it should highlight the missing link/s in the folder it is searching in, but it does not. The example below illustrates my point. The InDesign document that I used to illustrate this was opened up and there were four missing links. When I select the missing link/s and hit the relink button at the bottom of the links palate, I navigate to the correct location of the link but the image doesn't get selected even though the "Search for Missing Links" is checked. The missing link it should have highlighted was 431-11 frontal.psd, which clearly exists at the top of the "Front Street" folder.
This isn't a big deal when the folder contains four images. But when it has hundreds of links, it is a pain to try to find all of the links that are missing when the file name is often truncated, or it has an odd string of only numbers, etc. Just checking to see if anyone has any insight to this issue.

I think the yellow alert triangle next to each link name means that you just have to update those links, by hitting the refresh button at the bottom of the link panel once all links are selected (it's two arrows in a circle)

FCP Searching for missing MXFs

I am curious if anyone has ever seen anything similar to an issue I am seeing come up on several FCP stations.
When opening FCP it will start to search for missing MXF media as if it is trying to open a project that was last opened. It will continue to look for a file or several files and sometimes never actually open FCP. I am assuming at some point somone must have opened an Avid proxy file within FCP and it is still searching for one of the MXFs the proxy was pointing to.
Some things I have tried to do to solve the issue:
- Within FCP's settings I have turned off the option to open last project upon startup
- Trashing preferences
- Running Digital Rebellions preference trasher
I have seen this come up on about 5 computers so far. Sometimes after 15 minutes or so FCP will launch, but on other machines it will never actually get past searching for these files.
Here are 2 screenshots during the startup:
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/513b018de5912ac71528f0f30a8daf3f9715d1c0b2ab 9869af6b6daab230955f6g.jpg
and
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/5466aa6fbe1f260dd135d640d2219c6acd7d346bb69f b161253e2d63d96709f56g.jpg
If anyone has seen this and or has any feedback on a possible fix that would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Jesse Korosi

No, the drive is not connected anymore.
I do not have Automatic Duck on any of the machines and know that none of my crew use the software. But it makes sense that it would be looking for the MXFs as I could see us
- Syncing media in Avid to create editorial dailies
- Exporting Avid reference files
- Importing those reference files into FCP to add chapter markers or something of the like and then rendering out using compressor.
Either way, it makes sense that FCP would be looking for these MXF's. But these projects are now old and it would be nice if I could just cancel this search when it starts? Or not have it try to find this media when I first open FCP..?
Any suggestions?

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