Another Vexing Lightroom Issue Has Raised Its Ugly Head!

The other week, I wrote a post about how my Lightroom Classic catalog mysteriously became corrupted (Seriously! 🥴) and how I restored it as well as restored the images and editing I had done since the last catalog backup. You can read about that here. It was not a fun time.A few days after that problem was analyzed and fixed I discovered another issue. When looking at some older files, the thumbnails in the Library module showed a blank gray preview screen. The upper right corner of the preview showed a black circle with an exclamation point, but not the gray exclamation point that appears if a file is missing. When I tried to open the file a box appeared that said LR could not read the file. What? I then noticed other files in the same folder that were exhibiting the same behavior. What in the world was going on? These files were fine the last time I looked at them and some had been edited and exported for this blog. Now they seemed to have bene corrupted. I checked a few other…