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HenrikRasmussen
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March 31, 2018
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New computer, new photo location LRCC unable to move photos already moved

  • March 31, 2018
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I previously had a MacBookPro with two SSD disks, a primary disk called ”Macintosh SSD” containing the system, and a secondary disk called ”Kingston SSD” for the photos. Both disks was internal disks, not attached through USB or similar.

I used Lightroom Classic CC, but switched to Lightroom CC and migrated all my photos using the automatic migration feature in Lightroom CC.

Later I got a new Mac with only one large disk. When recovering from backup I recovered all my master photos to  ¨/Pictures/Lightroom CC (that is /Users/[UserName]/Pictures/Lightroom CC) and changed the Lightroom preferences -> Local Storage accordingly.

This seemed fine for some weeks, but when I started Lightroom CC today, LRCC tried to move all the photos and then complained that the Source Volume ”Kingston SSD” is offline.

I then have the option of Postpone for a week, Resume Later, Try again or Forget ”Kingston SSD”.

As I believe the database structure have links to photos on the Kingston SSD (that is now actually moved to the other location, I want to fix the database rather than just forgetting the ”Kingston SSD”, leaving behind 50.280 dead links.

How can I ”rebase” Lightroom CC to understand that the photos are now located in another directory?

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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March 31, 2018

First thing to realize is that Lightroom CC's local storage is just a locally cached copy of what's in the cloud. Your local copies are not necessary if everything has already synced to the cloud! So check your sync status by clicking on the cloud icon. If it says "Synced and backed up" you can ignore the error message above. It should redownload all those originals that were on Kingston SSD back from the cloud because of your "Store a copy of all originals" setting.

macgavin
macgavin
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April 1, 2018

Hello. I have the same question, as I just migrated to a new Mac. I'll go through this a second time when I set up my library on a second system. I understand that the local originals will ultimately re-download on the new machine, but I'd like see Adobe offer an option to just correct the link (like you can with a Classic LR installation for the master files). While I'm sure there are people with much larger local original caches, I don't really want to have to re-download 350GB over my home net connection when the data is already there. There should be an option to just point LRCC to the new location and have it verify the links.

-Gavin Reid

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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April 1, 2018

It should recognize the images are already there in the new location and not download them. I have no clue how good this works.

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