Lightroom not seeing library after MacOS sierra update

[silsurf@me.com]

Today I updated MacOS Sierra to 10.12.6

Opening LR I get the ! grey exclamation mark in the upper right corner of the entire library (80,000)

The Photo Library drive shows as being online, but if I toggle the directory there are ? on all folders.

I checked the permissions on the drive, because I have had that be an issue that causes the "missing" file in LR, but the ownership is set to be ignored.

I then linked the first file to the original and this happened:

same drive, twice. Once with a single image if I toggle down (the one I linked) and the other with 79,000 missing files?

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Henry

[Just Shoot Me]

Open Finder and see if the drive shows up there.

How exactly is the drive formatted?

[silsurf@me.com]

Drive is formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled GUID. I format all my drives that way. It has been in use as my primary Photo Library for more than a year.

Thanks very much,

Henry

[Mohit Goyal]

Hi HankusesDW,

I understand that your Lightroom displaying same hard drive twice in the folder panel. Please refer the troubleshooting document and follow the steps to fix this issue: Folders panel displays same hard drive twice

Let us know if the issue still persists.

Regards,

Mohit

[silsurf@me.com]

Mohit,

Looking at the tutorial I am a bit put off as I have hundreds of top level folders in my photo library, this process would take me considerable time. I am hoping there is some more efficient way to get LR to acknowledge the correct drive?

Henry

[silsurf@me.com]

I did a maintaince regime to see if that changed or helped the situation. Volume Rebuild and Disk Permissions. I unplugged all drives and restarted LR.

The plot thickens a bit as this is what I have now:

There is a green light for the "Henry Photo Libraries" that has all 80,000 files and ! and ? as described above. There are no drives plugged into the computer at the moment, so I can only assume it is using my internal HDD as the source of the catalog? I looked in my User/photo/lightroom and there is nothing named "Henry Photo Libraries"

Now, the second folder location has a "1" added to the name? That is new from before I did the maintenance, it still just has the single image I linked and it is offline because all the drives are offline at the moment.

I am hope that there is some solution that does not involve the one I looked at above as it will take me quite some time to re-link all the folders in the 80,000 file drive, there are hundreds of folders at the top level.

Thanks very much for the support.

Henry

[silsurf@me.com]

I have been away on vacation for two weeks and now back trying to solve this issue. I cannot do any work on my catalog at the moment and would greatly appreciate feedback.

Thanks very much

Henry

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

I think the best answer for your Duplicate Drive problem will be found in the answer by Jim Wilde at this link-

Lightroom: Creates duplicate folder after Photoshop edit or Import from disk | Photoshop Family Cust...

Read the third post where Jim answers this question.

[silsurf@me.com]

I just finished a remote session with Adobe and they fixed the issue, he used this tutorial for help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI1HGAZiYkI

Said it was about confusion LR over a folder from CC 2015 that was no longer in my Library