Avoid photos lost or missing/proper export/backup of catalog

I am an amateur photographer who mainly take pictures of family and friends. Our PC just crashed about 3 weeks, so we bought a Mac and update of Lightroom backup off on our external hard drive as the internal hard drive from old PC. I got 4 Lightroom for almost 2 years and have been exporting photos in different folders on both drives (external and internal old PC) in order to not lose them, print them or simply classify elsewhere. For some reason, Lightroom showed hundreds of random as "missing or lost" photos THREE times since we moved to the Mac, and this last time instead of completely erase the Lightroom or charge, I spent 4 hours of hunting and gathering a TON of different files. I know I missed the part on export correctly to avoid this problem, but now that I have this huge mess, I have a few questions.

1 how/why Lightroom is randomly pick up some files previously exported to lose without losing not others in the same exact import in the same exact folder? How or can I program it not to do so that I don't end up with 400 + photos "missing or lost" for the 4th time in a month?

2 How to export? Obviously put on a desk or a hard drive, it is difficult for Lightroom to find later, is why the program loses records and I pull my hair back.

3. can I save my catalog each time I have import new photos to go back if Lightroom shows a large majority of my photos "missing or lost" again?

Thanks in advance for all your help. I'm so lost, just at the moment where I thought that I understood.

Molly

  1. Lightroom is not 'lose' the files, this occurs because the user has done something wrong. You cannot move, rename, or delete these photos (or the folders that contain them) outside of Lightroom. If you stop managing your photos outside of Lightroom and do all the managing photos in Lightroom, the problem disappears. Better yet, develop a "workflow" that doesn't require you to move pictures from here to there. To resolve the problem with the missing photos, use these instructions: Adobe Lightroom - find folders and files moved or missing
  2. I would not use the export strategy that you have defined. I would export photos only when you need it outside of Lightroom (example: e-mail, web to print,) and once the exported photos have become useless outside of Lightroom, you delete the exported photos. The original is always managed in Lightroom, so you can find it whenever you need, and you can reproduce if necessary export.
  3. See my response to the #1, making backups is a good thing to do, in fact, I'd say it's mandatory, but is not the way to solve the lack of photo question, actually it will not solve the problem of missing photo.

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