Changed HDD - Collections Disconnected

Question

Hi - I recently changed my HDDs to consolidate several smaller drives to one larger one.

I moved the files outside LR (I know.....) because it was easier and I knew I could just re-connect the folders quite easily - which I have done.

However, what I failed to consider was the multitude of collections that I have. If I go into a collection in the Library view, the little exclamation mark is there saying the original file cannot be located (as it thinks it is on the old drive). When I select the option to locate it and navigate to the new location I get a dialog saying that 'the file is associated with another file' and LR won't accept the file in its new location (even though it is the same file with identical filename etc)

Other than rebuilding all my collections from scratch (would take a couple of days I think) is there anything I can do to fix this? All I want to do is get the collections to accept the files in their new location.

Thanks

robhillfoto · Answer

Just as an update - I combined 3 HDDs into one. It appears that collections relating to images on two of the drives are connected as normal, but those on the third drive aren't. I can't think what I did differently to cause this, but fortunately the scope of the issue is much smalled and I can rebuild the dozen or so collections associated with images from that drive.

Still curious as to what is going on though - why most connected but some didn't....

Thanks

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