I don't fully understand your description of the problem. If the files are shown greyed out it probably means the library has an entry for the photo, but it can't match it to the corresponding file on your disk. Have you renamed your files or folders, or remapped the drives outside of Lightroom since you last used Lightroom?
To make it find missing files and folders, right click on a folder name. From the menu choose Check for Missing Photos and Folders. Lightroom looks for the files which correspond with the entries marked as missing, and recreates the link. Or you could try opening the file from Lightroom - it prompts you if it can't find the matching file. You can then use a standard File Open dialogue to tell it which file to link to the Library entry. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tim Øsleby > Sent: 04 June 2007 22:25 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: My Lightroom library is messed up > > Thank you Bob. > I'm pretty upset now, so I may be wording myself badly. > > The main problem is the folders that Library has lost. If I > can't restore > Library I will have to rebuild them, and will loose a lot of tags etc. > I assume Loightroom will find the missing files if I'm able > to get the old > database back. Because the files are all there, as far as I can tell. > > Tim Typo > Mostly Harmless > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:17 PM > Subject: RE: My Lightroom library is messed up > > > there's a facility in there which finds missing files - have a look in > the help system. If you've moved or renamed something on the hard disk > it will get out of sync with the library. Find missing files resyncs > it. > > -- > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Tim Øsleby > > Sent: 04 June 2007 22:12 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: My Lightroom library is messed up > > > > HEEELP, please. > > > > I'm panicking here. I just opened Lightroom and the Library > > is ****ed up > > (note my family friendly subject line). > > Now a lot of folder are missing (they are on the drive), and > > 1500 files are > > grayed out and displayed as missing. Whats happened here? And > > how do I get > > it sorted? When I closed it down everything seemed fine. > > > > I took a backup on friday, so there is not much work lost. > > But I can't > > remember how I retrieve it. > > Could a reinstallation solve it, or would it make things worse? > > > > Tim Typo > > Mostly Harmless > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.7/830 - Release > Date: 03.06.2007 > 12:47 > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
