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Lap top to desk top

May 10, 2009 9:34 AM

Hi y'all;

I've just returned from an exciting two weeks shooting wildlife and dunes in Namibia.  While there I ran out of disk space on the lap top and so moved photos to an iPod, another storage device and to SDHC cards.  Lightroom worked fine in terms of naming and organising the files.

Returning home I consolidated all the files onto an external hard drive connected to the desk top machine, before reading about exporting and importing catalogs.

Now   importing to Lightroom 1.4 on the desktop causes Lightroom to crash.

The original folders are not on the desktop either so it's not possible to use the find files function.

Any suggestions as to how to direct Lightroom to find these photos would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

 

1490 Views   8 Replies   Latest reply: J McWilliams, May 14, 2009 7:53 AM
 
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  • J McWilliams
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    1. J McWilliams,
    May 10, 2009 10:25 AM   in reply to HCarlux
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    Unclear as to where the files reside..... you can presumably find them via Finder or Explorer?

    Can you create a new catalog on the desktop and import from there, after moving the images to where you want them?

     
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    2. HCarlux,
    May 11, 2009 6:09 AM   in reply to J McWilliams
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    Thanks for the prompt response, John.

    All the files are on an external hard drive connected to the desktop machine.  I can access them via My Pictures.

    I've tried creating new cataloges in Lightroom and on the desktop but with the same result - each time I try to import a file into Lightroom, it freezes.  ??

     
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    3. J McWilliams,
    May 11, 2009 7:03 AM   in reply to HCarlux
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    This may be a case where the .lock file got left behind. It shouldn't exist when LR is quit, and it should be there when LR is running. So see if you can find it and delete it. If that doesn't cure it, or there's no .lock file, I'd delete Preferences, then double click on the .lrcat to launch.

     
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    4. HCarlux,
    May 14, 2009 5:24 AM   in reply to J McWilliams
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    I've deleted the only .lock file I can find and that makes no difference.

    I don't quite understand when you say 'delete Preferences'.  Which ones? Where?

     
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    5. Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață,
    May 14, 2009 5:32 AM   in reply to HCarlux
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    I don't quite understand when you say 'delete Preferences'.  Which ones? Where?

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/358041

     
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    6. Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață,
    May 14, 2009 5:36 AM   in reply to HCarlux
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    Maybe Lightroom jsut stumbles upon some corrupted files. Try importing in smaller batches to isolate a possible bad file. Heck, try one single file for the beginning.

     
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    7. HCarlux,
    May 14, 2009 7:38 AM   in reply to Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață
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    Thanks but that's what I've been trying - to import a single file at a time - same result.

     
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    8. J McWilliams,
    May 14, 2009 7:53 AM   in reply to HCarlux
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    Preferences LR

     

    I'd really delete the Prefs file for LR, and then launch by double clicking on the catalog file of the current one, or creating a new one, and "importing from catalog", bring in the images from the other catalog(s)

     
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