Workflow & Business
Your Lightroom Catalog Is a Time Bomb — Here's How to Defuse It
The Folder That Almost Ended a Client Relationship A few years back, I sat down to pull selects from a corporate headshot session — 340 frames, solid work, client expecting a gallery by end of week. Lightroom opened, I navigated to the shoot, and every thumbnail showed a gray question mark. The images were there on the drive. Lightroom just had no idea where they were anymore. I’d moved a parent folder during a hard drive reorganization without telling the catalog, and now I was staring at 340 broken links with a deadline in two days.