Unable to see lightroom files on internal drive

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January 25, 2017
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I am running Lightroom 6 on a laptop with 2 internal drives, C & D. The lightroom picture files were on D & backed up to an external drive. Now Lightroom will only see the files on the external drive, not the D drive. I am trying to use the D drive for working on photos with the external drive for backup only. How can I have Lightroom recognize the D drive files? I have tried the update folder location option numerous times without success.

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Just Shoot Me

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Exactly How did you Back up your images. Did you try to do it in Lightroom? If you did what might of happened is you Moved and or Copied them over and in doing that told LR to start using the external drive as the main image storage location (IE Linked all the images on the external to the LR catalog).

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I think I copied them from D to external through explorer

Just Shoot Me

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kenw33371373 wrote:
I think I copied them from D to external through explorer

If that is the case then LR should not be seeing them on the external drive. I have 2 separate copies of my images on 2 separate external drives that are always connected to my main desktop system (the one I'm typing this reply from) and have never had this happen.

LR only knows about the drives you have imported images to and or from or drives you have moved images to from inside LR or drives you have specifically selected after you do a Update Folder Location or Find missing folders options.

Mu suggestion is to close LR, disconnect the external drive (After using the Safely Remove hardware system), Restart your computer, Open LR and then if the folders and images are listed as Missing use either Update folder location or find missing folder from the Right Click context menu. Point it to the internal drive and to the top level folder and or drive that holds your images on the internal D drive.