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Keeptickin
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September 30, 2021
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"Originals Waiting to be Moved" ??

  • September 30, 2021
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So, I got a new external SSD to use as the storage location for all my originals, while leaving smart previews in the cloud or on my internal harddrive. The originals used to be on another external drive, but it was having connectivity issues... anyways, I transferred the photos by plugging both drives in and then changing the "storage location" in LR preferences and then LR moved all the photos for me from one drive to the other... it took like 10 hours.

When it finished I thought everything was dandy, but I am realizing now that all I have are the smart previews and when I click the cloud dropdown window says it is 'all synced and backed up'... When I click the info tab, it says "Sync Status: Orginal Waiting to be Moved". This is the case with all my photos... not sure what the deal is. Thanks in advance

 

 

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
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September 30, 2021

If you reconnect both of the drives again do you still see the message?

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KeeptickinAuthor
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September 30, 2021

Thanks for the reply. I connected both drives and tried again and this time it moved about 95% of them. Itsd missing about 5000 photos tho and is asking me if I want to try again... I guess I willl and hopefully it gets them all this time. thanks

 

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KeeptickinAuthor
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September 30, 2021

Alright, I tried again and now when it tried to move the photos, for some reason, it only moved 22 photos... the window said "moving 1 of 22 photos" even tho there are around 5k more photos it needs to move. It successfully moved the 22 tho. 

 

After that, I tried again, and it only tried to move 15 photos, but couldnt move any of them and gives me a message "Oops! We werent able to move all of your photos." with the options to 'Resume Later', 'Try Again', or 'Postpone for one Week'.  Trying again just results in the same message

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