Lightroom :: How To Move LR4 Catalog (data Not Photos) From Local Drive To External Drive

May 21, 2013

How can I move my Lightroom 4 catalog (data, not photos) from my local drive to an external drive? My local drive is running out of space.

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Lightroom :: Merge External Drive Images To Desktop Drive Within Same Master Catalog?

Aug 18, 2013

I have about 900 raw files on an external drive. I edited those files using my master catalog using a laptop while still travelling. When I got home, I copied the master catalog from the external drive to the desk top, then opened the master catalog on my desktop. I can see the edited images on the external drive. So far so good.
 
I want to copy (add) the edited images to my desk top. I tried to export the images as a new catalog and then import it into the desire location on my desktop drive. However, LR5 does not allow that. I get this message: "There is nothing new in the catalog you have selected. All of the catalog's photos are up to date in this catalog." Yes, but the edited  images are not on my desktop.....
 
I also tried to Import from the external drive and then Copy the files to the desktop, but then I lose all of the work done in the develop module and the keywords.
 
I watched Kost's LR 3 video on merging catalogs, but she dodges the question of how to deal with this issue since the "merge" is within the same catalog.I'm using LR5 with Windows 7.

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Lightroom :: Lost Adjustments When Move Images From Hard Drive To External Drive

Mar 1, 2012

I moved images from my harddrive to an external drive.

I opened Lightroom.

Noticed there was a question mark by the photo folder I needed.

I synchronized the folders. Nada.

I rememebered I moved the images (first line ^^)

I re-imported the images from the external drive into Lightroom.

These images (other than one that was marked previously with a blue label) look completely untouched - completely original files - even though I spent hours working on them.

I am glad the images weren't deleted BUT re-doing 600 images will be a MAJOR FAIL if I can't figure out how to import the images with the settings / developments I did beforehand.

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Lightroom :: Transferring Catalog And Photos To New External Hard Drive?

Mar 20, 2013

I have been storing my LR catalog and all photos on an external drive, which is now full. I got a new external hard drive and would like to move everything over. I started to copy and paste the root folder - which has all the photo folders and the LR catalog folder. If I copy and paste everything outside of LR and open the catalog in the new location, will LR recognize the photos in the new location?
 
I also read that the catalog could be moved to the new external hard drive (with LR closed) and the photos moved within LR by creating the root folder on the new and dragging and dropping each folder in Library mode.

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Lightroom :: Move Photos And Thumbnails Down To External Hard Drive?

Apr 18, 2013

I store my photos on an external hard drive.  Recently, I inadvertantly imported five days of photos into the catalogue but stored them on my laptop's internal hard drive.  I'm trying to move the photos and thumbnails down to the external hard drive so they'll be there when I plug back into my desktop. how to move them from the internal hard drive to the external?

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Lightroom :: Catalog Doesn't Recognize Photos / When External Hard Drive Switched To Different USB Port

Sep 23, 2013

Lightroom 4 catalog does not recognize photos when external hard drive switched to a different USB port. The photos are in My Photopraphs in an external hard drive.  I recently had to switch ports and now the catalog can't find the photos.

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Photoshop Elements :: 11 - Transferred Data From Hard Drive To External Drive

Feb 10, 2014

PSE11 transferred data from hard drive to external drive how do i direct PSE11 to new drive/catalog

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Photoshop Elements :: How To Move Some Photos To External Drive

May 26, 2013

I have the majority of my photos located on an external drive. Recently after upgrading to PSE 11 I noticed that when I import photos from my sd card that they are located on my c: drive.

1) How do I safely move the files located on c: to my external drive?

2) change the default location so file will automatically be saved on the external drive?

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Photoshop Elements :: Transferring Photos / Videos From Hard Drive To External Drive?

Jan 6, 2014

Using Elements 11 - My photos are taking over my hard-drive and I want to safely transfer all my photos and videos to an external hard-drive.  How do I do it without loosing info and/or later having to re-connect thousands of pictures?

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Photoshop Elements :: How To Move From (recovered Data External Hard Drive) To New Computer

Dec 8, 2013

Computer 1's hard drive crash and all programs and data were recovered professionally and sent to me on an External Hard Drive.  Computer 1 was on Windows 7.  I can fun the program off of the External Hard drive fine, when connected to my my new Computer.  I click on the .exe file and it pulls up the catalogue as it should.  All off of the recovery drive.

The new Computer, is on Windows 8.1.  How do I get the Adobe Catalogues moved/copied to the new Computer?  

I redownload Adobe 10 onto my new 8.1 Computer from the Adobe website.  Using the new download, I was able to open the Catalogue on the External Drive (F).  Cannot find a way to "relocate" the Catalogue to the new computer.  The pictures have already been copied to the new computer.

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Photoshop Elements :: Where And How Catalog And Photos Backed Up On External Hard Drive

Apr 16, 2013

I'm using Elements 11 and just completed a full backup I selected the external hard drive and used the default name "my catalog".  When I look on the external drive I can't find the photos or the my catalog file.  Is it named differently? 

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Lightroom :: Cache Large RAW Files Imported From Network Drive On Local Drive?

Jul 5, 2012

I'm copying RAW files from a shoot onto my network RAID drive in a per-album folder, from where I then import into a new LR catalog (I'm using LR 4.1) on my Windows laptop for that album.
 
I'm finding that editing RAW files on a network drive from a wireless laptop is awfully slow (not to mention not being able to continue the work offline somewhere else), so I'd like to cache those files on my speedy SSD drive just until I'm done editing and exporting/publishing that album.
 
I back up my per-album catalog onto the network folder alongside the RAW files since that's my IT-managed master repository. When I'm done editing, I'd purge the cached files and just keep the catalog previews on my limited capacity SSD.
 
So, is there a way to tell LR to, for one/all files imported from a location (in my case a network folder), look in an alternate location for the identical files? Since I create per-album catalogs in per-album folders, there wouldn't be filename clashing. Either LR can provide this caching behavior on its own or I'd manually copy files from the network folder to a local folder and tell LR to look there first.
 
I don't really want to make copies of files into secondary folders within LR since then it's a hassle to merge edits on the cached copy to its master copy (I haven't done this, but I'd imagine so).

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Lightroom :: Sharing Catalog - Does Housing Catalog And Images On External Hard Drive Work

Jan 15, 2014

I will be managing a small portion of a client's overall image workflow by updating their web prescence on a regular basis with new work and retagging/uploading old work. I believe this requires the catalog and the image library  to be housed on an external hard drive that can travel between the two of us. We are both working on PC's with LR 5.3.
 
The workflow would look something like this:
 
Client downloads new images onto external hard drive and imports into LR "ClientCatalog" is created Flags Picks and Creates a Collection from those Picks.Hard drive is handed off to me where I open "ClientCatalog".Make suggested edits to images add detailed tags and metadata upload to various social media sites and websites return hard drive to client
 
Is there potential problem with this workflow? My assumption is that if everything is housed on the external hard drive then there are no worries about the catalog containing all the latest updates. Are there any "safety protocols" you would add in to this workflow (besides mirroring everythign on another hard drive)?

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Photoshop Elements :: Move Photos To External Hard Drive To Free Up Internal Space?

Oct 19, 2012

I am running out of space on my internal hard drive on a MACBookPro and would like to move my photoes to an external disk and keep the catalog pointing to them. They are currently in nicely named folders and I would like to keep them that way. How can I do this?

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Lightroom :: Restoring Catalog After External Drive Failure?

May 12, 2011

I'm struggling to recover status quo after an external hard drive failure. My setup is an iMac and two external drives. I keep LR on the iMac harddrive but all photos on the external drive with the second external drive for copies of the photos. My primary external drive died. I have copied the photos from the second external drive over to a new primary external drive, but I can't figure out how to restore the catalog and use this new drive in my regular workflow. When I go to the catalog file and open up the catalog, it first tries to get me to import all the photos from the new primary drive. Is that what I want to do? If my secondary drive had failed I could have figured this out easier but the primary external failure has really thrown me for a loop.

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Lightroom :: How To Restore Catalog On External Hard Drive

Dec 26, 2012

I am trying to restore my lightroom catalog on an external hard drive to my new computer that has lightroom 4 installed and all my original photos loaded.  Whenever I click on the lrcat file I get a message that reads"Lightroom cannot use the catalog named "Lightroom 3 Catalog" because it is not writable and cannot be opened."  Below that it says "This could be caused by incorrect permissions or because another Lightroom application is using the catalog.  You may try to correct the problem or you may select a different catalog".  I don't know what to do.

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Lightroom :: 4 Loses Data On External Drive

Feb 26, 2013

I was working with a client on a move of folders from an internal drive (Mac OSX) to an external drive.He created a dummy folder, via LR, on the external drive so that he could drag and drop from the internal drive to the external.
 
The folder was created, but the hard drive itself now appears as a FOLDER, not as a drive, under /volumes.
 
He renamed the drive, from within LR, and all hell broke lose.  The name changed in LR, but not on the desktop.  We couldn't rename on the desktop as the two names conflicted I'm guessing.  We ended up shutting everything down, full reboot and the drive would not unmount.  We forced that, closed down and restrted everything.  Still had the naming conflict.  LR didn't see the folder, so we rnamed in LR and got everything aligned.  Or so it seemed.
 
Dragging folders to the external drive appeared to work OK, but one folder was inadvertently dropped on the folder above the target folder.  It was dragged and dropped to the correct location, but then showed 0 images.  A check with finder revelaed that the files were in the new location on disk, but LR has lost them.
 
Today, having moved all files (via D&D) to the new drive, he is trying to reorganize folder, but every D&D on the drive results in the above behavior.

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Lightroom :: Moving Entire Catalog To Bigger External Drive?

Jun 29, 2013

A friend just had major problems moving his v3 files. He had one top folder for all Lightroom. He keeps his catalog and photos on an external and now needs to increase the capacity of the external. So he copied them over in Windows with the entire Lightroom folder remaining intact, and reassigned the old drive letter to the new external hard drive, so the path to all photos is preserved.
 
However, everyhting shows up Missing. "Find this folder" doesn't work. You navigate to the new location but it's not clear what exactly you "do" to relink. Clicking the name of the lost folder in the resulting dialog box (new-but-named-the-same-as-old-drive) didn't cange anthong back at the Library display of that folder. I know I -- myself -- will be moving to a new internal drive from the one currently storing my photos in the near future. So his problem is relavant to the hassle i can expect.

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Lightroom :: Unsuccessful Catalog Backup On External Hard Drive?

Feb 13, 2014

So I just tried to do a backup on my new external hard drive and it said it was unable to backup the catalog. Specifically, "Please check your folder permissions, and make sure you have available space on your backup drive and main catalog's drive." I'm not sure what's going on because as far as I know permissions should be fine and there is certainly enough space on the external hard drive. Idk if this makes a differnence but I currently have my catalog backed up on the same internal hard drive that lightroom is used on, I'm just now wanting to back it up on the external. Lighroom 4, Mac computer.

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Lightroom :: Cannot Import Images To Catalog On 4TB External Drive After Upgrade To 4.4

Apr 12, 2013

longtime lightroom user mac 10.7.5 upgraded to 4.4 and now cannot import to designated catalog on external 4TB drive with good permissions on the drive and folders.am able to import to other drives, but not the one I mentioned?

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Lightroom :: Moving Library From External Drive To Computer Hard Drive?

Dec 26, 2013

I have my LR library and catalog on an external hard drive.  I have a new iMac with a 3TB hard drive and I want to move the library and catalog from the external drive to the computer's hard drive.  Is this something that can be done with a drag and drop?

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Lightroom :: How To Move Pictures To External Hard Drive

Apr 18, 2013

I need to create space on my laptop hard drive. How do I move my pictures to an external harddrive? Terrified I will losse them or get the dreaded ...?

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Lightroom :: Get Newly Exported Catalog To Point To Files On External Drive?

Oct 15, 2012

I am running LR v3.4.1.  I have had a single catalog for a long time and it has really effected performance, so I am wanting to move some files out into a separate catalog.  Currently, my catalog is on my C: drive, but all of my pictures are on my K: drive, which is external.  When I do the export as catalog, it creates the new catalog on my C: drive, but also creates a copy of all of the photos there as well.  I want to point the catalog back to the original files on my K: drive so I can remove the ones created during the export process on my C: drive.

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Lightroom :: Moving Files From C Drive To External Drive?

Jan 11, 2014

How does moving files off my C drive affect Lightroom's ability to find them?  I have flagged and labeled files - will they still be flagged and labeled?  Will I have to import them again?

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Lightroom :: External Drive Change Drive Letter

Dec 3, 2012

I have photos stored on a external hard drive, over time the computer changes the drive letter ie from "G" to "I" Lightroom there for is unable to see all the photos in drive G which is in fact the same drive.

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Lightroom :: External Lacie Drive Crashed / Can't Find Recent Backup For LR3 Catalog

May 3, 2013

I have LR3 on a Mac running OS 10.6.8.  My catalog, cache and images were stored on an external Lacie 1TB drive (partitioned so it can be used by a pc and mac).  My catalog backup files were saved on another external drive MXTR as well as copies of all my images.  The Lacie had started self ejecting while running LR3 and I thought it was maybe a problem with the cable, as it would work fine after rebooting.  Yesterday it crashed LR3 and never remounted.  I used Disk Utility to try and repair the disk and it instructed me to erase the disk and start over.  I was not worried, since my catalog was backed up to another drive. .  Another 2 hours to copy my images from the MXTR to the Lacie (again the drive never self ejected during this time either).  So now I go to find my most recent backup catalog.  The most recent one I could find was dated 2/09/2012.  I am baffled.  What happened all those times I was backing up?  I upgraded to LR3 in 2011, and I don't remember ever telling it to backup to another folder or drive. 

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Lightroom :: Unable To Eject External Hard Drive Containing Catalog Despite All Programs Being Closed

Jul 16, 2013

I want to eject my external hard drive from my laptop. I have my "master catalog" stored on their due to small internal hard drive. When I close all programs and I try to eject drive it says that a program is still using it. I am assuming that this is lightroom because the problem did not previously exist before I installed lightroom. (running windows 8, lightroom 5)

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Lightroom :: Keeping Color Labels On External Drive With Catalog For Multiple Computers

May 6, 2013

I currently have my LR 4 libriaries and catalogs on a external drive that i can transport between my laptop and office mac.  The only issue I am having is when I color label photos on one computer it does not show up on the other computer.  Is there a preference for this?  It is the only thing I can't figure out and is frustrating after rating them on one computer and then not having them later on the other. 

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Lightroom :: Reimport Photos On External Drive?

Jan 27, 2014

I have a new comoputer and want to reimport phoos on external drive. Must I reimport the photos and then look for a file with my work on those photos?

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Lightroom :: How To Move Existing Photo Files To External Hard Drive

Jan 14, 2014

I have run out of space on my laptop and need to move my picture files to an externaal hard drive and need to know how i can do this without creating problems ???

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Lightroom :: How To Move Pictures Folder To External Drive Due To Lack Of Space

Oct 15, 2012

I am moving my pictures folder to an external drive due to lack of space on my c: drive. What do I have to do so that Lightroom will find these files?

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