hi all! I am a photographer who has recently been revisiting old files from 2018-21 to print.
MY SET UP: I keep files on my desktop and organize/import through Lightroom then I move everything onto an external drive and recently have moved everything onto a raid 1 JBOD tower with a Backblaze continuous backup.
MY ISSUE: the first time I wanted to print a file it was from 2018 and when I looked through the album it appeared that all my raw files and Lightroom files were there but when I looked for this specific one I cant find it. I looked for it everywhere. I figured this was a flub since this was one of my very first shoots as a pro and maybe I did something on accident. today I was looking for a file from 2021 and same thing - album has what appears to be all raw photos but not this specific one. its super bizarre. There is a chance I deleted it but thats crazy because thats 2 for 2 now and I although my transferring system is a bit clunky and manual, I am super paranoid and usually double check my work before I would randomly delete files
QUESTION: is there anything else I can do to try to find or recover these files? I have the file names and low res jpgs of them. again theyre pretty old and have been through a couple of transfers now. is there any other reason these files might be missing that isn't because of me? and lastly, what can I keep a look out for that this doesn't happen again?