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Participant
March 4, 2022
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Re-sync

  • March 4, 2022
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I have moved my photos off of my hard drive on my computer to an external hard drive to free up space and add speed. How do I re-sync my collections in Lightroom Classic to the new location on the external hard drive...Thanks!

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dj_paige
Legend
March 4, 2022

You re-connect the FOLDERS via these instructions (see in particular, Figure 4):

https://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

 

DO NOT Re-import or Synchorinze the folders! This is 100% wrong and will cause problems. This is so important, I'm going to say it three more times.

 

DO NOT Re-import or Synchorinze the folders!

DO NOT Re-import or Synchorinze the folders!

DO NOT Re-import or Synchorinze the folders!

DO NOT Re-import or Synchorinze the folders!

DO NOT Re-import or Synchorinze the folders!

DO NOT Re-import or Synchorinze the folders!

Participant
March 4, 2022

Thank You! I will do exactly as you suggested.

I'm curious...Would you have recommended that I had done something different before I moved my photos off of my computer to the external that made more sense? 

dj_paige
Legend
March 4, 2022

What you did was fine (and for what it is worth, that is what I would recommend).

 

The only item I will point out (I don't know if this applies to you) is that sometimes people decide to move the photos AND re-arrange them on the external disk in one big task. This is almost always a horrendous mistake, in that now the re-connecting will take an awful lot more time; and if there are problems, you don't know if the problem was the move or the problem was the re-arrange. The advice is: get one thing working (moving photos and re-connect) before you try the other task (re-arrange).