Help,Lightroom keeps deleting my libary!!

For no apparent reason lightroom has started to erase my libary and all photos every time i open it!! It starts with one folder and then after about 3 minutes my whole libary has 0's next to the folder names and also the subfolders.
The strange thing is i can still see and open the pictures in lightroom with no problems but the library is saying its empty!

If i click on my last .lrdb backup file it all restores the library to how it should be but when i shutdown lightroom i have to do the whole thing again.

I have reinstalled lightroom but this has not helped..

Any ideas folks?

Have you moved or deleted your pictures?

Sounds like LR remembers where they were from it's cache and when it goes to update or whatever it cant find them...

no i have not done anything to them at all. it just happend a couple of days ago for no apparent reason. the photos are still in the same place they were when originally imported

virus?

have you tried reinstalling LR?

sounds quite scary...

no virus,did a full scan and came up clean. I still have all the images backed up on the external drive but i always choose to copy photos to new location when importing.

I've changed my whole workflow from start to finish to use lightroom+CS2 and it works great,i just hope its some setting i've changed by accident and not a major problem.

It erased the Library. Did it remove the image files from the HDD?

Incidentally, I "import" files in their original location.

No,the files are still on the HDD. I think from now on i will import them at their original location also as it seems a more sensible thing to do. Would you say i should copy new files to my HDD and them import them or copy them into LR directly from the compactflash??

bubbawillums wrote in post #3434851
No,the files are still on the HDD. I think from now on i will import them at their original location also as it seems a more sensible thing to do. Would you say i should copy new files to my HDD and them import them or copy them into LR directly from the compactflash??

To each his own. Some prefer to copy the images first to the HDD while others copy from the CF card. I prefer the latter. The one downside to this is that there is a bug and not all of the files seem to copy the first time so you have to run the Import again. I prefer to do it this way still because it eliminates the Canon file structure of 100 images per folder, while renaming and adding metadata.