Today I restarted the computer again, running fsck in the Unix shell on the way. No problems.
Since the image counts and keywords are missing even in almost-2-year-old copies of the catalog, it seems it must be a mutation in Lightroom itself. My backups include LR6. Would I be inviting further trouble if I decompressed and ran one of them? Even dealing with the Kodak Labs in Fair Lawn was more fun dealing with these computer problems. Rick > On Dec 21, 2018, at 9:10 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, I just went into my extensive backups and opened several .LRCAT files > going back to Feb 2017. > > They don’t show the numbers of photos in the folders, and they don’t have > visible or searchable keywords. > > I’m utterly flummoxed. > > Any other suggestions? > > Rick > > >> On Dec 21, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Rick, >> >> I agree with the other responses: I doubt this had anything to do with the >> Google API change. It certainly hasn't happened on my system, and I got the >> notification when I clicked on the Maps module and found it no longer >> worked. >> >> First: I presume you've checked the folders on the hard drive and all the >> files are still there. If you have used the "Metadata > Save metadata to >> files" command, all your metadata, including keywords, are saved on disk in >> the actual image files for DNG, TIFF, and JPEG files, and in .xmp sidecar >> files for the native raw files. (I do this regularly, as I work through a >> session, so that I don't have to do it en masse. So all is not lost, if >> you've saved regularly as you work. >> >> I would definitely load a recent backup of the catalog file and test that. >> The likelyhood is greatest that something simply clobbered your current >> .LRCAT file. If no backup .LRCAT works, you can always start LR up, create a >> new catalog, and then have it import all the existing files in ADD mode and >> recreate most of the .LRCAT that way, minus virtual copies etc. >> >> PITA for sure, but I wouldn't link it with the Google API change other than >> maybe as a side effect of something that notified you. >> >> G >> >> >> >>> On Dec 20, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Godfrey, >>> >>> The following things abruptly happened in LR6 and just about the time of >>> the API change: >>> >>> - I have a “Photos” folder containing one folder for each year on an >>> external drive that I use as my “photo drive.” The number of photos >>> reported overall, and the number of photos in each annual folder, went to >>> 0. Oddly, most of the monthly sub-folders still display accurate counts, >>> though some (like all of them from 2015) report 0. >>> >>> - My keywords vanished, almost every one of them. Some groups of photos >>> still have their keywords, but the search function can’t find them. >>> >>> I tried quitting and restarting LR, and quitting and restarting my computer >>> and hard drives. No use. >>> >>> Rick >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
