How will I know if I deleted a photo or if it is missing?

I recently got a new MacBook and just left my old one on an external hard drive. I keep my photos on the external hard drive now and everytime I open LR, he seems to forget where are my pictures. I found a few missing pictures before, but they seem to disappear again when I close and re-open later LR.

I also deleted pictures in the recent past (before and after the transfer to external hard drive) from the inside, LR, and now I can not tell if the? refers to two photos and deleted missing photos or only missing photos (often there is no thumbnail for me to see what picture it is). Is there a way to tell if the photo has been deleted or not? I don't want to waste my time looking for mysterious images of (miniature less) that I wanted to delete anyway. I hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance for any guidance on this.

If you use the option delete picture or pictures in LR, and select Remove from the disk image files are both removed from the LR catalog and removed the disc they were on. There is no way to remove an image from your hard drive and not remove it from the LR catalog from inside Lightroom. You can delete the catalog and not delete hard drive in LR, but not vice versa.

So if you see a question mark (?) next to a LR image is unclear to where is this image. For as far as LR knows that the image is missing.

There is a problem with Mac computers and external drives.

(1) start up your Mac, it can take a few seconds to a minute or more for OS X to see the external hard drive is connected. If you start LR at the moment sees no OS X, recognize the external hard drive you will get? marks on all the images that are stored on this drive and imported in the LR catalog.

(2) OS X has a function to put hard drives to sleep, internal and external drives. If this happens, OS X puts your drive external to sleep and you open LR it may take some time for the reader to be seen and for LR to connect with the pictures that are on this drive.

There is a setting in the OS X preferences to stop this (or at least there was at the time Mt Lion and Maverick in Mac OS X. I have not used the new versions of OS X).

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