Lightroom import from disk question

Elaine

I kinda accidentally removed some files from Lightroom (but not my computer). When I go to my hardrive's file manager, I can see them all there with their xmp files. If I go to LR and say import from disk and go to that folder, they are all shown without the xmp files. How do I re-import with all my edits?

arodney

Elaine wrote:

I kinda accidentally removed some files from Lightroom (but not my computer). When I go to my hardrive's file manager, I can see them all there with their xmp files. If I go to LR and say import from disk and go to that folder, they are all shown without the xmp files. How do I re-import with all my edits?

You need xmp AND the original Raws.

If you option click on the folder shown in LR, you should be able to invoke the Sync Folder and that will fix everything is in that folder. If not, you are going to have to search the drive and "relink" the images to the LR database (it doesn't know where they are).

Elaine

arodney wrote:

You need xmp AND the original Raws.

If you option click on the folder shown in LR, you should be able to invoke the Sync Folder and that will fix everything is in that folder. If not, you are going to have to search the drive and "relink" the images to the LR database (it doesn't know where they are).

Sorry I wasn't clear...that's what I was trying to ask (how to re-import the Raw with the xmp). The Sync Folder was what I had forgotten about. Thank you!

Just to be clear...this imports the files with the edits, but not the history. The original raw file is still available on my hardrive, but I can't look at an edited photo in LR and see the "before/raw" version now. Is that how Sync works?

arodney

Elaine wrote:

Sorry I wasn't clear...that's what I was trying to ask (how to re-import the Raw with the xmp). The Sync Folder was what I had forgotten about. Thank you!

Just to be clear...this imports the files with the edits, but not the history. The original raw file is still available on my hardrive, but I can't look at an edited photo in LR and see the "before/raw" version now. Is that how Sync works?

Sync should get everything back in order.