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stevej46
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October 14, 2023
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Getting my two External Hard Drives onto Lightroom Classic.

  • October 14, 2023
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I was running out of space on my external hard drive that was connected to Lightroom Classic. I decided to attach a 2nd external drive to my iMac. In so doing, I had a few problems so a took the original external drive off LRC. Then I tried adding it back along with a 2nd external drive. Can't seem to get them on my LRC Left Side Menu.

My original external drive is LR 1. The second drive is LR 2

My scheme for my photos shows the year, month and then different titles for what ever I have shot.
Starting in 2014 .. 2014 09 .. Summit Scenes, Milky Way etc.

I've attached photos. I know how to remove folders from LRC but when I try to add my drives back to LRC, I am not getting everything as it was before. 

Hope the photos help.

 

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    stevej46Author
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    October 28, 2023

    I was able to move year 2014 and 2015 over to Lr 1 Menu. Started on 2016 and after I loaded 177 images, I got a error msg.. External Drive is full. The external drive was full before I started all this. So not sure how it could be full now on the LRC menu. I want every year from 2014 to 2023 to show on Lr 1 LRC menu. How do I do this>

    I've got to arrange things differently on the Lr 2 menu page. So I should have under 2023 II the month 9 2033 and 10 2023.. And then I would place the actual photo names under the right month..

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    October 28, 2023

    These are file attachments which my web browser will not open. I cannot see when is in these files. I provided instructions earlier in this thread to use the "Insert Photos" icon, please follow those instructions.

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    stevej46Author
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    October 14, 2023

    Here are photos inserted.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    October 15, 2023

    These are attachments, which I still cannot see.

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    October 14, 2023

    Please describe in more detail what you did. You say "I know how to remove folders from LRC" but you do not seem to realise that this will remove the photos from the catalog and also all their edits. You cannot simply add these folders back to the catalog and expect the edits to be back! Do you have a catalog backup from just before you did all this?

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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    stevej46Author
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    October 14, 2023

    No.. I screwed up. But all photos I posted or printed, are on other folders on my iMac.

     

     

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    October 14, 2023
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    No.. I screwed up. But all photos I posted or printed, are on other folders on my iMac.

     

    By @stevej46

     

    Edits are stored in the catalog, not in the files. So unless you mean that these are exported files, this won't help you. You are using a Mac. Are you saying you also do not make Time Machine backups?...

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    GoldingD
    GoldingD
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    October 14, 2023

    I do not understand. You say you had Lr1, you added Lr2, then you disconnected Lr1, later reconnected Lr1, and after that Lr1 does not show in LrC.  BUT your screenshots show Lr1 and Lr2 in the Folders Panel. So, they or it are/is not missing.

     

    Ahh, rethought, reread. Folder structure, and photo locations, and actual photos existing in catalog, in either drive, does not look like as before. I assume you moved various photos, perhaps entire folders from Lr1 to Lr2. How? Within LrC, or outside of LrC via Finder?

     

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    stevej46Author
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    October 14, 2023

    Looks like LR1 and LR2 are from finder. Along with other attachments. Looks like I should have left LR 1 alone and not remove it. Now the edits won't be seen. All the photos are still on the two external drives. Lost a heck of a lot of work. But anything I printed or posted were saved in other places. I have all my prints saved under Costco on my iMac. 

     

     

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    October 14, 2023
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    Looks like LR1 and LR2 are from finder. Along with other attachments. Looks like I should have left LR 1 alone and not remove it. Now the edits won't be seen. All the photos are still on the two external drives. Lost a heck of a lot of work. But anything I printed or posted were saved in other places. I have all my prints saved under Costco on my iMac. 

     

    By @stevej46

     

    Like I already asked: Do you have a catalog backup from just before you did this? If so, this can be solved quite easily.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    October 14, 2023

    My web browser refuses to show file attachments here. Please use the "Insert Photos" icon to include screen captures in your reply, do NOT attach files.

     

    Instructions for linking LrC to files that have been moved: www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

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