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Dec 29, 2011

I bought a ReadyNAS and a few harddrives to go with it, and decided to move all my 35594 pictures to it.As Lightroom has some silly features like not being able to move multiple folders unless they have a root folder, I moved most of these files via Explorer and then had to sync them one by one for hand (which is annoying, as there's one folder for every day – however, that's another question). For the rest of the 20 000 photos, I decided to move them with Lightroom.

 Results:

0 missing files from the files I moved with Explorer and resynced.

3049 missing files from the files I moved with Lightroom.
 
The files simply don't exist anymore, on neither of the disks. I've searched every single drive for them completely by file name, date, everything. They're gone.This has nothing to do with disk failure, or user error. Only the files I moved with Lightroom are affected.
 
Considering there's both client work and personal pictures among these, it's crucial that I get them back.
 
There's another thread about this problem here, except that I didn't have the luck of just 80 files.

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