HELP NEEDED: Replacing External Hard Drives on WD Mycloud Raid1 Drives with all my LightRoom images

Report · Jun 21, 2024

I have had a WD ex2 Ultra mycloud set up on my home network in Raid 1 configuration.

My 6 TB Drives fill so a purchased 2) 12 TB drives. I used my Trip-litew dual dock w/cloning to clone my 1st 6 TB drive to my 1st 12 TB drive. I then cloned the 1st 12 to the 2nd. I have now returned the 1 & 2 12 TB drive to my Western Digital My Cloud EX2 Ultra housing and connected to my netwwork. The connection fails.

Any help with this and I suspect when connected I will not be able to see these in LightRoom.

What do I do, create catalog and import (will this take age)

Clueless here, I do need direction.

Thanks,

John

Report · Jun 21, 2024

Are you talking about Lightroom (Lr icon) or Lightroom Classic (LrC icon)? What version number?

What does "The connection fails" mean. Can you give more details?

Lastly, no importing of photos. Not only would that take forever, but it is completely wrong thing to do, and will make things worse. No matter how badly you want to import the photos, do not do this.

Please read this document about moving photos to new hard drives: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/move-photos-another-hard-drive-leaving-catalog/

Report · Jun 21, 2024

Thanks dj_paige

I am reading the document you mentioned.

I am unsure about Lr icon but am using Lightroom Classic 13.3.1

I will study the document and evaluate and carry on tomorrow, thank you

John