Find the most recent one (based on the Date Modified) that isn’t in your Backups Folder.
LIGHTROOM 5.7.1 NOT IMPORTING PHOTOS MAC
If it is not there, then out in Windows Explorer or Mac Finder, do a search of your hard drive for. If you don’t know where your catalog is, first check for it in the Lightroom folder within your Pictures folder. Once you highlight it and click on Select, Lightroom will relaunch with this catalog. If you know where it is (perhaps you moved it), go to File>Open Catalog, and navigate to it - it will be an. If there are no catalogs in the Recent list other than the one you are in (at the top of the list, with a checkmark next to it), then you will have to tell Lightroom where your catalog is. Often, in the menu bar you can go to File>Open Recent, and your “real” one will be in the list - simply select it to relaunch Lightroom with it. If you open Lightroom and it is blank, you have a catalog with no information about any photos, but your photos are almost certainly still sitting safely on your hard drive as they were before.Īssuming you aren’t just starting out with Lightroom, why would the catalog be blank? It is usually because for one of various reasons, Lightroom forgot about or couldn’t find the one you were working with, and therefore opened up a blank new one. In a nutshell, the catalog contains all the information about your photos, all the work you do on your photos, and some snapshots of your photos, but not the photos (original raw files, jpegs) themselves. You can read more about the relationship between the catalog and your photos in my earlier post, About Your Images and the Lightroom Catalog. When you are in Lightroom, you are looking at Lightroom’s catalog. Fortunately, this usually isn’t the disaster that it at first seems to be. You open up Lightroom, and there is nothing there - all the photos you have imported and worked on are gone. This is one of the most common, and certainly the most stress-filled request I get for help.