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Drive change

Community Beginner ,
Apr 06, 2021 Apr 06, 2021

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After crash my drive has changed from "E" to "D" How can I connect my Collections again? Cannot choose the letter "E" in drivechange.

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Community Expert , Apr 06, 2021 Apr 06, 2021

Collections do not have to be reconnected. They are just lists. What you need to reconnect are your folders. Click on the arrow behind the drive letter to expand it, then reconnect the top folder(s): 

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/

 

 

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Apr 06, 2021 Apr 06, 2021

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Collections do not have to be reconnected. They are just lists. What you need to reconnect are your folders. Click on the arrow behind the drive letter to expand it, then reconnect the top folder(s): 

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/

 

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Apr 07, 2021 Apr 07, 2021

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So simple! Nobelprize ahead!! Thank you very much. Much obliged.

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Sep 26, 2022 Sep 26, 2022

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It is a nice workaround to a missing feature, but:
If you do not have one or a few parentfolders to reconnect (I do have several hundreds of folders), this is not a solution. You need to be able to reconnect the drive, too! (Or am I missing something?)

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LEGEND ,
Sep 26, 2022 Sep 26, 2022

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Change the letter on the drive using Windows tools so that the drive is now what Lightroom Classic expects.

 

So, for example, if the drive used to be D and now it is E and Lightroom Classic is still looking for D, go into Windows and change E to D.

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Sep 26, 2022 Sep 26, 2022

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You are indeed missing something if you do have parent folders but they are not shown. That something is that you can make the parent folder visible in the following way. Right-click on a folder and choose 'Show Parent Folder'. Repeat with that parent folder if necessary.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Sep 26, 2022 Sep 26, 2022

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A suggestion: deliberately assign the drive a fixed letter which is less likely to conflict with other automatically assigned drive letters. With say [F:], regardless whether that was a fixed or an automatic assignment, tomorrow some other device may already have got in first, and taken up that letter. Set a known-unique drive letter much further on through the alphabet, for each device where you want - as you certainly will do with Lightroom Classic - this same chosen drive letter to be always consistently assignable.

 

Then, as already instructed, re-connect the common parent folder under which all your images live, onto the corresponding folder as browsed within this newly referenced drive X: (or whatever).

 

how-to-assign-a-drive-letter-in-windows-10 

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Sep 27, 2022 Sep 27, 2022

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Hi Johan, this is very helpful hint! I did not try because the parent folders are not shown. Thank you, cheers, Albert

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