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Lightroom has question marks on each folder on my new EHD. I have tried to "Find Missing Folder" and point to where it is on the new EHD,but it doesn't go anywhere or let that process start. New Files are identical to the crashed files, but just on new EHD. I read where I need to add a "Folder" but I already have many folders on the new EHD. How do I make this work? I have over 8,000 files so would like a fairly easy solution. Thanks so much.
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My guess is that your new EHD has a different name than the old EHD.
Lightroom only knows about the old EHD, so if Find missing folder doesn't work, you'll have to rename the new EHD, and give it the same name as the old EHD. I'm not a Mac user, so I don't know if that's possible to do.
Whatever you do, do not reimport. Lightroom will consider all these photos new, and all your previous edits will be missing.
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Renaming a disk is easy. You have to do it in the Macintosh Finder. If you give the new disk the exact same name as the old disk had, then Lightroom will not see the difference, so it should not show missing folders anymore.
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Thank you all. I did get it resolved.
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Once caveat on the rename; The folder structure has to be identical to the old drive for automatica connection.