The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

53. FINDING MISSING FILES AND FOLDERS

YOUR LIGHTROOM CATALOG does a great job of managing where you place pictures and what you do with them. However, there will come a time when you move a folder or a set of pictures outside of Lightroom (Figure 53.1), and Lightroom is not going to know where it is. Go back to the analogy we used at the beginning of this book: it is as if someone walks into your house and moves a box of pictures, but never writes this down in your notebook.

You’ll be able to open up the files in the Library module and Rank, Sort, Pick, add stars, and add colors without a problem, but the moment you move into the Develop module, ...