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I want to remove volumes from 'Import' -> 'Select a source' list

Jul 18, 2012 11:29 AM

Tags: #windows_7 #lightroom_4.1 #remove_volumes #hard_drives

Hi all,

 

First, I'm using the new Lightroom v4.1 on a Windows 7 x64 system.

 

As the title to my question suggests, I'm trying (without success) to remove volumes from the list that's shown when a user clicks on the 'Import' button (lower left of screen) and 'Select a source' which, naturally, shows all the drives in my system.

 

There are five volumes; four internal and one external.

 

There are only two drives which contain photos that I'm interestered in importing/editing.

 

The other drives contain files that I have no interest in editing or organizing.

 

For example, several hundred (scanned and collected) very old family photos that I wish to keep pristine, with no editing of any kind. As for placing them in collections,  I already have them in dated, carefully named folders.

 

So, as this is a shared computer, I want to remove the volumes (drives) so that the aforementioned photos can't be inadvertantly imported.

 

Can someone please point me in the right direction how to do this?

 

Thank you.

Yours,

Hugh

 

 

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    Jul 19, 2012 7:10 AM   in reply to xyso35201

    As far as I know, this not possible.

     
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    Jul 20, 2012 2:33 PM   in reply to F. McLion

    There is nothing within Lightroom that will cause it to ignore a specific drive permanently. You'd have to go above Lightroom to the system level to prevent Lightroom from seeing the drive. Not sure how to do that, but it's probably possible.

     
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