> On Jan 1, 2026, at 8:16 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stan, the missing photos don’t show up in LrC at all—there are just blank > grey squares, though they are intact on my computer.
Wait a second. If there are spaces for them on the display, in that directory, then they are in lightroom. It just isn't showing previews. If you click on library-> find all missing photos do they list as missing? If you select them then click on library->previews->smart previews (or standard previews) do the previews for them show up? If you double click on one of the grey squares, what happens? - LRC > >> On Dec 28, 2025, at 10:58 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Re alternatives - I continue using LR Classic because it works for me and I >> don’t want to learn new stuff. I did briefly play with an early ON1 but was >> not impressed. >> >> Re the “lost” files - lost? When you say LR loses track of images, do they >> show up at all? E.g. are the thumbnails still there in Grid mode? If the >> Thumbnails are there, tracking back is fairly easy… if not, can you just >> re-import? >> >> Stan >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Dec 28, 2025, at 4:26 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am running LR Classic 15.1 on a Mac, with an up-to-date OS. >>> >>> For no apparent reason, LR has again ost track of about 10,000 of my 63,000 >>> photos. This first happened a couple of years ago. After a few weeks of >>> struggle, I contacted a Lightroom expert that my wife somehow smoked out. >>> Neither of us can find her contact information, though. >>> >>> Does anyone know of such a person? She lived on Long Island. >>> >>> Which non-Adobe photo editors should I look at? >>> >>> Rick >>> -- >>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > __ Larry Colen from Lothlorien [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

