Adobe 65064073 User Manual page 46

Locate missing photos
In the Grid view, Lightroom displays alerts
within a volume, Lightroom usually tries to update the file paths. If you're deliberately organizing and managing your
catalog with the photos offline, ignore the alerts. However, if you need to locate the photos, for example, to apply
develop settings and have them written to XMP, do the following:
1 In the Grid view, click the Question icon in a thumbnail cell.
An alert dialog box opens with the original file path.
Click Locate to navigate to the photo.
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To located missing photos in a folder and its subfolders, select a folder in the Folders panel, choose Library >
Synchronize Folder, and click Show Missing Photos.
Note: A red folder name in the Folders panel indicates that the link to the master catalog folder is broken. Right-click
(Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) on the red folder name and choose Locate Missing Folder to restore the link.
Update photos changed by another application
In the Grid view, Lightroom displays alerts in image cells when the photos in your catalog have been changed by
another application. For example, if a photo has a one star rating in Lightroom, and the photo has been updated to
a two star rating in another application, you need to decide which rating to respect. Both cannot co-exist together.
Lightroom lets you resolve conflicting photo metadata by either overwriting its data in the catalog with metadata
from the photo or its sidecar XMP file, or overwriting the metadata in the photo file or sidecar XMP file with its
stored data in the catalog.
1 In the Grid view, double-click the alert icon in a cell.
In the Confirm dialog box, click one of the following:
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Import Settings From Disk
photo's data in the catalog.
Exports metadata from the catalog to the photo file and overwrites the data in the photo or its
Overwrite Settings
sidecar XMP file.
Takes no action. If you select this option, be sure that the photo's metadata in the catalog doesn't conflict
Do Nothing
with data in the photo or its sidecar XMP file.
Rename photos
1 In the Library module with photos selected in the Grid view, or with a selected photo in Loupe, Compare, or
Survey view, choose Library > Rename Photos.
In the Rename Photos dialog box, choose an option from the File Naming menu. Choose Edit if you want to
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specify a naming option using the Filename Template Editor. See "The Filename Template Editor and Text Template
Editor" on page 20.
If you specify "sequence" for a naming option, Lightroom numbers the photos sequentially. If you don't want the
numbering to begin with "1, " type a starting number in the Start Number text box.
in image cells when photos are moved offline. If photos are moved
Imports the metadata from the photo or its sidecar XMP file, which overwrites the
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