Why is Lightroom importing the wrong number of pictures?

[Zak833]

I have a regular Mac folder with 10,400 images and videos (regular file types), but LR is only importing 9,942 of them. It shows me photos/videos it can't import when the import is complete, but they number about 10 - not 458!

Has anyone seen this before or could explain why there is such a discrepancy? It would be great to have the confidence that LR is capturing everything!

Thank you in advance.

[Ian Lyons · Accepted solution]

If you have Raw + JPEG combinations Lr will usually treat the JPEG as a sidecar and ignore it. You can override this behaviour by setting an option in Lightroom preferences as shown in below screenshot

[ManiacJoe]

In the box showing the not-Imported files, there was a reason. What is the exact wording of that reason?

[Zak833]

Thank you @IanLyons, this solved the problem!! As a side note, if I wish to obscure the RAW files again, where do they go exactly?

Thank you ManiacJoe, but the reason due to some kind of corruption.

[Ian Lyons]

If you uncheck the preference again Lr will, in future, import both the Raw and JPEG into the same folder. However, the JPEG will be treated as a sidecar and thus invisible within Lr.

[Zak833]

OK thank you.