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Offline 30west

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This item is not locally available and cannot be modified.
« on: January 25, 2026, 07:53:54 PM »
I can't seem to resolve this error message. It relates to my previous post trying to remove keyword "Early Years". I thought just do a Find and Replace for each word separately (Early), then (Years), but get the error message referenced n the subject of this post.

The files are clearly "local", so the "not locally available" has me stumped. Any suggestions appreciated. thanks...gary

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Re: This item is not locally available and cannot be modified.
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2026, 09:22:05 AM »
As with your other questions, difficult to say with the information provided. Probably easier to troubleshoot when you give us a call.

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Re: This item is not locally available and cannot be modified.
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2026, 01:07:56 PM »
For the benefit of anyone following this...a big Kudos to A Howard for getting this resolved and it's not the first time he has rescued me from my own ineptness.

So the reason "This item is not locally available" is because after initial scan to catalog, I consolidated folders of scanned photos into one folder (simply named "scans"). I did this in the macOS Finder so the PM+ database was not seeing those files where they were expected. This was resolved by "updating folder paths" for those files.

In hindsight, I am somewhat surprised that a FULL "Catalog Sync" didn't resolve that, but maybe I moved the files AFTER the sync. If anyone knows if that would have resolved it, please let me know.

Thanks again...gary