Removing corrupted photos from library

[johanb89817280]

I had a hdd crash and let professionals restore it. They managed to save 80% of the images. But now i really need to remove those 20% of just blank out images with the black exclamation mark on it. They are sitting there like dark sad reminders of all the photos i've lost. Is there a way to bulk remove all damaged images?

[Rob_Cullen]

I suggest-

1) Go Menu > Library > Find all Missing Photos

2) Select all  [Ctrl+A]

3) Visually scroll through and check that these are the previews you want to delete.

4) press [Delete] and [Remove]

[johanb89817280]

Thanks WobertC. 3134 images gone. Broke my heart seeing the empty five stars ;(

[johanb89817280]

Darn! Spoke too soon. There is still blank images in the library. When i click the black exclamation mark it says

"Lightroom has encountered problems reading this photo. You will not be able to make adjustments to the photo"

Any way to single these ones out too?

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

If you see blank previews, but not marked as 'missing', there is no automatic way of filtering for the problem files.

There remains the possibility that your Previews cache has become corrupted, hence showing blank images, or the 'Professional Restore' has corrupted some files.

It may help to let Lightroom re-build the Previews.

Details to do this can be found at-  https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-says-preview-cache-corrupted-fix/

(Do NOT delete your catalog file   xxxx.LRCAT )

Failing a Preview re-build, it might just have to be a visual selection of problem previews and choose to [Remove] them from the catalog (if possible!). Do not [Delete from disk] as you may be able to try and Import them again if the originals are by some luck OK.

[johanb89817280]

There are actual files in the file explorer. They are just corrupted. So rebuilding did not help.

[Rob_Cullen]

Hi, Time passes since your first post!

Can you make a screen-clip of the Library Grid, and post here, so we see how the thumbnails appear in the Lr Catalog?

Did "Remove" from the Catalog work for the problem previews?   {  Select image > press [Delete] > choose [Remove]  }

[johanb89817280]

Yes, sorry about the stalling.

Manually removing them do work. Would just take crazy amount of time. Would be nice to be able to sort them by "damaged"

One intact file. One half damaged and one totally damaged.

The files in just a normal window (the checkmark is just my backup)

[Rob_Cullen]

Yes I see your problem- Manually deleting many files will take time.

But still no "automatic" way to filter the corrupt images that I know about.

A suggestion- To speed up the deleting, you could-

1) Show All Photographs (selected in the 'Catalog' panel)

2) Pick up the Paint Can and set it to "Flag- Rejected"

3) Squirt the can on every file you see in the Grid view that is corrupted. 'Click and drag' over contiguous photos.

4) Then use [Ctrl+BackSpace] (or Menu>Photo>Delete Rejected Photos)  to delete all rejected photos.

I am curious seeing that your recovered files are JPG, do you not shoot raw?

Do you not have backups of all your photos on another 'backup' hard-drive? Or is this a lesson learnt?