I had to move a catalog and associated content from a Mac to a PC and of course you can't get the paths to remain the same so I need to reconnect the content.
I can reconnect individual files no problem, but I have about 65K files on this drive so it's doing it individually is not going to work. I need to reconnect the _folders_.
The weird thing is, I was able to do this somehow for _some_ folders, but what I thought I had done, select a photo, then select the date in the "target photo" box, isn't making the folder show up under the Navigator folders pannel.
In the attached image you can see some folders show a couple of files, but they really have thousands. These were obviously the files that only had one or two done by hand.
And yes, I selected "find nearby files" as well, and that didnt' seem to have any effect.
Any thoughts here?
Thanks,
-john
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You must 'relink' the top folder. That will relink all folders at once. If you can't see the top folder, then right-click on the current top folder (2024-DDWW24..... in your screenshot) and choose 'Show Parent Folder'. Repeat if necessary with this folder, until you see the main folder that contains all the image folders. Once you see this top folder, right-click on it and choose 'Find Missing Folder'. In the dialog that comes up, navigate to this folder on your drive and select it. Done.
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OK, I got it to work with a little tweak.
I started with a fresh copy of everything, I opened the catalog, it showed nothing on the navigation pane. I selected the top image in the grid, selected "date" from the target photo box, then the unlinked folders showed up in the navigation pane.
I then did what you said, "show parent" until i got to the top, then re-linked the dir, and all appears to be well.
Thanks!
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