Lightroom. Fantastic software for editing photographs, but scary if you move the locations of the folders where you store the photos. Last night, I decided to tidy up my cluttered desktop. The way I work with photos is that I use iPhoto for storage and mainly Lightroom and sometimes Snapseed for editing. When I want to work on a shot I drag it from iPhoto to Lightroom. I also use Snapseed for editing and this creates folders on the desktop. Why, I do not know or understand. Anyway, imagine my horror when I opened up Lightroom after my reorganising the desktop and clicked on a photo and the ‘cannot locate the image’ warning appeared! Appeared on over 400 images. I freaked. I googled. I searched. I located the missing folder and have vowed never to mess with it again.
Something similar happened when I used to upload directly from Lightroom to Flickr. I remember editing a photo I had posted to Flickr and reposting it and losing all the faves and comments I had accrued on the original posting. Another time, I deleted by accident an image in LR and it disappeared from Flickr. Now, I export to a desktop folder before uploading. Lesson: Do not trust Lightroom with uploading.
I am posting the last image of the series of With the slowest of jazz music playing. I have another 4 or 5 images to add to the series, but I find interest in the same type of images dwindles after about 4 photographs. I am posting the other images here on the blog and maybe sometime in the future I will post the others to Flickr also.
With the slowest of jazz music playing [4]
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Have a good week. Thanks for all the visits.
Monday
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Hey, thanks for the reblog.
Ok! Have a nice day!
You must have got the fright of all frights. Did you find them?
Eventually – after much searching online and on my mac. Mac search is not that easy to use, I think.
Tom just started to upload his photos from Lightroom. I will share with him your story. I export my photos from Lightroom to my iPad, then post from there. Thanks for sharing your story. I enjoy all your posts, Brendan!
I would advise against direct uploading from LR.
I read him your post and he understands exactly what you are saying. Thank you for this post and sharing your mishaps.