No Photo Selected problem in Lightroom 2
Missing Photos
I’ll keep this short. It might not ever happen to you, probably because you don’t use Adobe Lightroom. Recently I had to reformat and do a reinstall because I was clinging to the Windows 7 Beta for dear life never wanting to have to redo everything all over again. Unfortunately having the computer reset rather randomly every two hours or so got to be a little too much. After restoring all my files and checking to make sure my Library was all there life was good.
Today I fired up Lightroom to try and sort through the pile of trash known as My Photos and was presented with the above screen. It’s actually happened to me once before, the first time lent me to wasting two hours of my life dicking around on the internet not finding a solution. I backed up my library, restored it, repaired the catalog, reverted to an old version, nothing worked. Ultimately I was like “Hey what happens if I go back to Lightroom 2.4?” Well that worked.
So once again here I was presented with the missing photos that are actually there. I refuse to give into the 2.4 downgrade this time around. I mean, I know there are a hundredmillionkajillion other people using the proper version of Lightroom, so damn it, I will too. I tried my luck at Google again and finally came across something that helped. Thing is, shortly after redoing my computer, and verifying the photos in Lightroom I noticed the color profile for my monitor was off. Not enjoying a yellow tinged photo I picked a new profile to work under. Well apparently LR isn’t a big fan of WCS Device Profiles.
The fix is as simple as picking, or creating, a new ICC Profile and restarting Lightroom after applying it. Seems rather stupid Adobe couldn’t have thought of some type of warning system to tell me it’s not compatible rather than letting me guess at the problems but there you have it. Don’t use WCS profiles with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.
