I bachup with an external hard drive(ehd), itcotains folders fro 2007 to 2013 plus a "test"folder. when i plug it into my computer and open light room,in the left hand pannel where the ehd appears, it shows all the folders except 2009 ,2013 and the "test" folder. why doesn't L.R. read all of the ehd.,,
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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.
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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One external drive (Drive 'A') contains my photo archive - all of my photos. The other external drive (Drive 'B') is a mirror; a duplicate copy of all of the content on the first drive, incase it ever fails.
Q1: Why does LR only display drive 'A'? Even though both drives are on, connected, and working, only drive 'A' appears under the Folders tab. My concern: If - in the future - drive 'A' fails, I need to understand why LR isn't recognizing drive 'B'. Q2: On drive 'A', I right-clicked on the highest level folder in my heirarchy and chose 'Synchronize Folder'. New photos were imported, and old photos were removed. I also made some additional edits to photos on this drive. If drive 'A' ever fails and I need to switch over to my mirrored drive (Drive 'B'), do I also need to right-click on the highest level folder and choose 'Synchronize Folder'?
I just upgraded my external hard drive and named the new drive with the exact same name as the original, lets call this HD-1. My entire LR gallery is on this drive. After doing a complete backup to the new drive I opened LR and all Folders and Collects were in their place as they should be.
The Problem -
When I imputed new photos, a new duplicate hard drive appeared with the exact same name HD-1 and holding the newly imported images (which were placed in a subfolder at time of import)
- So now my Catalog shows two hard drives called HD-1. For sake of this discussion I will label them HD-1a and HD-1b. HD-1a has the original photos and HD-1b has the newly imported photos.
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- I created a new sub-folder in HD-1a and was able to drag the photos into it. I then deleted the empty folder on HD-1b. As soon as this was done the duplicate hard drive, HD-1b disapeared.
- I thought this solved the problem but as I was working on images by opening them from LR into Photoshop, the HD-1b drive reappered in my catalog with the PS created files in them.
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I'm working with a friend set up his Lightroom 4 on his office an laptop computers. Ideally we would like to have the catalog on an external drive that we can attached to both computers. I already loaded the LR4 s/w on both but put the catalogs in the default location within the picture folder in a folder called Lightroom Photo's.
1. how do I change the default to the external drive?
2. will that drive be interchangeable between the laptop and desktop?
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