My ex HD has TWO letters assigned to it -- How to fix??? Michel, help PLEASE!

Question

I’m using the trial version of PSE18. It is working great! Michel, thanks as always for your time and consideration. I’ll get back to that one later.

Here is the problem that I have. ALL 171 pics that I tossed in the recycle BIN via PSE18 stated that they came from a G drive.

Right now my external HD has two letters assigned to it. And hence the confusion and the message from PSE18 when I tell it to delete from my catalog and my HD about ‘PSEcan’t delete from the HD because of blah, blah, blah.” It is in the screen shot below for the proper wording.

On my PC tree – I noticed that my external HD is called Passport: (F) (G)

I have found a website that tells how to reassign a name to one’s drives. I just don’t know what to letter to assign for it.

In PSE18, when checking the meta on a pic – it general tells me two things:

History: Passport (F:)

Location: G:Pictures

Then . . . my HP has a RECOVERY folder that it tells us not to touch. And its letter? F

Any thoughts?

My concern is any edits/stacks and such that I do . . . will most likely be in vain until I have all my drives assigned ONE LETTER ONLY.

Should I assign letters to the RECOVERY and to my EX HD and then just start the whole import process over again?!

Below are screen shots if that helps you understand my problem better. Thanks a bunch! Sincerely, Dean

PS: I found a site that explains very well how to assign your drives different letters, I just don’t know what to assign them to. I’ll make a few calls and do some reading tomorrow. Probably the safest and best course would be to get my DRIVES lettered correctly. Uninstall PSE 18. Reinstall PSE 18. And then import from my ex hd – which well be newly lettered in a way NOT to be confused or combined with any other letters. I wonder why PSE18 was working SO MUCH BETTER than PSE15? Michel, I could not find the ‘acceleration’ thing.

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Note to self: when I am typing on my HP – the one and only USB port on the left side – reads the following (which is better that the two ports on the left that read NOTHING for my external HD – update – now one of my ports on the left side is reading my ex HD as F and G):

Look at the top of the above and also in the left pane how my external HD has two drive letters assigned to it – well that contradicts with the F drive that came with the HP laptop.

OK. Tis annoying message. I think I figured out its cause.

Here is what I think is the problem. Does it have a solution? Note below that my external hard drive (this is from where I mported the pics into PSE last night) states that it is both F and G drive (lower bottom left – ‘Passport’). And I have discovered that the ones it lets me throw away throughly (out of the catalog and off of the EX HD are the ones with G drive stated as their location).

Above is my recyle bin. Of 171 pics – when I hover the cursoor over them it states: Orginal Location: G:\Pictures

NONE: state F: drive and although I told it ICON view – only about 10 showed up in icon view

NOTE: The pic belowin the upper right corner – look at the right pane in the metadata area. Location: G drive -- After that, I’ll show the exact same pic but the metadata will be different. And it will show the different drive:

Note the one below (this is my recyle Bin– states G as orginal location – but, it has a string after that)

Below is a better view of the recyle bin to show that they all list G as their location:

I’m using the trial version of PSE18. It is working great! Michel, thanks as always for your time and consideration. I’ll get back to that one later.

Here is the problem that I have. ALL 171 pics that I tossed in the recycle BIN via PSE18 stated that they came from a G drive.

Right now my external HD has two letters assigned to it. And hence the confusion and the message from PSE18 when I tell it to delete from my catalog and my HD about ‘PSEcan’t delete from the HD because of blah, blah, blah.”

On my PC tree – I noticed that my external HD is called Passport: (F) (G)

I have found a website that tells how to reassign a name to one’s drives. I just don’t know what to letter to assign for it.

In PSE18, when checking the meta on a pic – it general tells me two things:

History: Passport (F:)

Location: G:Pictures

Then . . . my HP has a RECOVERY folder that it tells us not to touch. And its letter? F

Any thoughts?

My concern is any edits/stacks and such that I do . . . will most likely be in vain until I have all my drives assigned ONE LETTER ONLY.

Should I assign letters to the RECOVERY and to my EX HD and then just start the whole import process over again?!

Below are screen shots if that helps you understand my problem better. Thanks a bunch!

Sincerely, Dean (I created all of this, including screen shots on Word. But, the screen shots did not copy over (WH???) -- I'll try the screen shots again in the next post)

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And the pattern just continues and continues with EVERYTHING that I put in the recycle bin via PSE 18 today. Nothing from my F drive (remember my problem – my ex hd is called both F and G drive)

A continuation of the pattern:

Man . . . I just can’t get a break. Or, I guess a better way of looking at it is . . . . I sure am learning a lot! And later when I use thumb-drives . . .. I don’t want them to mess up my drive order/sequence. Time to learn, learn. UGH. I’m going broke learning. Thank you all.

I’m using the trial version of PSE18. It is working great! Michel, thanks as always for your time and consideration. I’ll get back to that one later.

Here is the problem that I have. ALL 171 pics that I tossed in the recycle BIN via PSE18 stated that they came from a G drive.

Right now my external HD has two letters assigned to it. And hence the confusion and the message from PSE18 when I tell it to delete from my catalog and my HD about ‘PSEcan’t delete from the HD because of blah, blah, blah.” It is in the screen shot below for the proper wording.

On my PC tree – I noticed that my external HD is called Passport: (F) (G)

I have found a website that tells how to reassign a name to one’s drives. I just don’t know what to letter to assign for it.

In PSE18, when checking the meta on a pic – it general tells me two things:

History: Passport (F:)

Location: G:Pictures

Then . . . my HP has a RECOVERY folder that it tells us not to touch. And its letter? F

Any thoughts?

My concern is any edits/stacks and such that I do . . . will most likely be in vain until I have all my drives assigned ONE LETTER ONLY.

Should I assign letters to the RECOVERY and to my EX HD and then just start the whole import process over again?!

Below are screen shots if that helps you understand my problem better. Thanks a bunch! Sincerely, Dean

PS: I found a site that explains very well how to assign your drives different letters, I just don’t know what to assign them to. I’ll make a few calls and do some reading tomorrow. Probably the safest and best course would be to get my DRIVES lettered correctly. Uninstall PSE 18. Reinstall PSE 18. And then import from my ex hd – which well be newly lettered in a way NOT to be confused or combined with any other letters. I wonder why PSE18 was working SO MUCH BETTER than PSE15? Michel, I could not find the ‘acceleration’ thing.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Note to self: when I am typing on my HP – the one and only USB port on the left side – reads the following (which is better that the two ports on the left that read NOTHING for my external HD – update – now one of my ports on the left side is reading my ex HD as F and G):

Look at the top of the above and also in the left pane how my external HD has two drive letters assigned to it – well that contradicts with the F drive that came with the HP laptop.

OK. Tis annoying message. I think I figured out its cause.