Telling Lightroom about a replacement external Hard Drive

Question

My lightroom external hard drive failed. The duplicate I had been keeping using Super DUp is not a real copy, but I have 2 options: I have it backed up in the cloud with Carbonite, and Datasavers say they can save the data for too much money. I am making a new external HD from the cloud copy, but I don't think LR will see it as if it was the originalext HD. Do I name the new drive the same or differently from the original? How to I expain to LR there is a new path to a new External HD to the LR folder with subfolders and about 80 GB of images?

Thank You

ManiacJoe · Answer

As long as you restore the images to the same folder structure that was originally used, you will just need to tell LR where the new folder tree is:

In the Library, Folders panel, right-click on the top-most missing folder "?", select "find missing", navigate to the same folder on the new drive. LR will auto-find all the subfolders and images under that folder. Repeat as needed.

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