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Sisyphus 1
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September 29, 2024
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Changing destination drives

  • September 29, 2024
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Hi I recently had an external hard drive fail, I bought a new external drive, but Lr is looking for the original to back up to. The disks are from different manfacturers, how do I change the destination to back up to the new external drive?

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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September 29, 2024

When you get the backup dialog, click on the 'Choose' button and choose the new destination.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Sisyphus 1Author
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September 30, 2024

Thanks

Unfortunatley I have all the filles on my new drive which were put there by one of Adobe's  helpers via a computer share I have no idea how to get those back from the million and 1 fies that represent each days photography. Lr CC appears not to have worked correctly since day one. Are there any further tiers of help besides the community and someone messing around inside my computer?

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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October 9, 2024

Hi 

I have done as you asked I have enclosed a screenshot of what it shows, The new folder with items appears to be in the Assingment folder on my desktop. 


OK, that explains the two 'new folder with items' folders. The one that is missing was on the desktop. The one that Lightroom Classic does see is inside the 'Assignment 1-2 do not delete' folder, which is also on your desktop. Maybe this is actually the same folder, and you moved it in this new 'Assignment 1-2 do not delete' folder outside of Lightroom, so Lightroom does not know that you did. Later you imported two new images in that folder, so Lightroom added it to the catalog without realising this was actually the missing folder...

 

Lightroom does not show any folders on the offline 'Expansion' drive. That is strange, because if Lightroom does not know any folders on that drive, it should not show the drive at all. If I understand you correctly, Lightroom does show you its images in the grid, or doesn't it? If it does, then what happens if you select one of those images and then choose 'Go to Folder in Library'? Does that show the folder(s) on the offline drive?

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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