all photos are missing

I backed up my photos last night and now they are all gone.  I don't even see the boxes of images, only grey with exclamation points.  When I try to locate I see the files that I have used to have, but how do I know which photo I locate?  Also, it is not possible to select several photos rather than picking one at a time.

I learned that this is by far one of the issues more confused with Lightroom-lack of location photos when I backup or, change the name, put on external hard drive, etc.  In addition, just understand catalogs in general.

I can't wrap my head around it and I'm sure that there is an explanation.

I'm sure it's much easier for a lot of people!

Thanks for the tips,

Meg

Backups if done properly, would never affect Lightroom. Well, you must be a bad thing. All you have to do to make backups is to COPY (and not MOVE) the pictures on another disk. All you have to do to make backups of your catalog files is to enable the option in the catalog settings. You must do BOTH >

Files with? icons can be resolved via the instructions on this link (with photos).

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

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