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Ok to change name of external drive?

Explorer ,
Feb 07, 2018 Feb 07, 2018

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Recently I added LR 6 to my brand new new iMac (OS is High Sierra). 

I was previously using an imac with snow leopard and LR 5.7.1

All 65,000 images are in a catalog on an external drive.

I attached the back up of that drive to the new imac.

I didn't upgrade the catalog.

There’s a ? next to all the files because it doesn’t recognize the drive, since it's called back up.

For LR to recognize it, can I simply change the drive’s name to be the same as the original in the catalog?

Since that drive was working with my old imac using snow leopard and LR 5.7.1, will it interface ok with LR 6?

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LEGEND ,
Feb 07, 2018 Feb 07, 2018

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beverlybeverly  wrote

I didn't upgrade the catalog.

There’s a ? next to all the files because it doesn’t recognize the drive, since it's called back up.

For LR to recognize it, can I simply change the drive’s name to be the same as the original in the catalog?

Since that drive was working with my old imac using snow leopard and LR 5.7.1, will it interface ok with LR 6?

You need to upgrade the LR 5 catalog to work with LR 6

Yes you can or you can tell LR what drive name to look for.

Yes once you point LR to use that drive to find the image files.

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Explorer ,
Feb 07, 2018 Feb 07, 2018

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Got it. Thank you! I had updated the catalog but managed to do it all as you suggested.

The second external drive is proving problematic but I shall reattack tomorrow.

Thanks muchly!

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LEGEND ,
Feb 08, 2018 Feb 08, 2018

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If the name of the drive matches what was previously used, then you shouldn't have these question mark icons. So you could try changing the name of the drive to what it was previously, that should fix the problem.

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Explorer ,
Feb 09, 2018 Feb 09, 2018

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Thanks again for helping me with this.

I would like to mark it correct but that option doesn't show on my computer.

Where is it found?

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LEGEND ,
Feb 09, 2018 Feb 09, 2018

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It didn't show because the thread wasn't marked as a question. It now is.

Glad you got it fix.

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Explorer ,
Feb 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018

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Hello, Again I tried to mark it correct but it says no actions are available.

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Feb 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018

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Thank for your trouble. No need to mark as correct.

Just glad you got it figured out and working.

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