Thanks to those who replied. Alas, the DNGs no longer exist where either LR or Spotlight can find them.
I unmounted both external drives and ran Disk Utility. Both have problems. The message for the primary (Toshiba) drive is "OWC Toshiba: "The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's file system : (-69766)”. The secondary (WD) drive gets the report "OWC Toshiba: "The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's file system : (-69766). Western Digital: Container disk okay; Container disk 3 "Storage system verify or repair failed :(-69716) Sheesh, both hard drives crap out at the same time. I had no idea that Backblaze would fail to back up files when I selected “Back up now”. What now? I have another unused (somewhat creaky) hard drive. Do I copy all the files to it, and reformat the other two? Rick > On Sep 7, 2022, at 2:11 AM, Toine <to...@repiuk.nl> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 06:54, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >> >> >>> On Sep 6, 2022, at 7:08 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> It happened again. >>> >>> Yesterday I took the K-5 and 50-200 for a walk around the neighborhood. >> I took about 50 shots. >>> >>> As soon as I got home, I removed the card from the camera, put it into >> the reader, and loaded the photos into Lightroom. >>> >>> I ejected the card, but did not erase it. Before I went down to prepare >> and eat dinner I started a Time Machine backup to an external drive used >> only for that purpose; and when that was complete I launched a Backblaze >> backup. >>> >>> I worked on the photos in LR after dinner, and worked up 9 of them to be >> posted as PESOs. >>> >>> This evening, I went to post the PESOs. Lightroom now has a little box >> with an exclamation point in it for every single photo, and yesterday’s >> backups (which I watched until they were complete) are not visible either >> on my backup drive or in Backblaze. >>> >>> I’ve been using the same system since 2005, with no previous problems; >> and now it has screwed up twice in the past week, and 3 times in the last >> few months. >>> >>> Any thoughtful ideas will be much appreciated. >> >> Are they still on the card? >> >> Have you searched your harddrive for any of the specific files? >> >> When you run the lightroom “find all missing files” function, what >> happens? Are more files missing? >> >> Is there any chance the drive they were copied to got unplugged? >> >> When I read files into lightroom, I have it automatically make a short >> term backup to a scratch disk. Every few months I’ll go through and clean >> that up, after I’ve made my three backups. >> >> >> >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> (who might take up basket-weaving instead of photography…) >>> -- >>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >>> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> l...@red4est.com >> >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> 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 pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
