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I keep all my photos on an external hard drive. I recently backed up my photos to another hard drive and since then light room does not recognize my hard drive. The computer does and I can look at the photos on other programs. I tried to disconnect and I've tried all the ports on my computer and it still will not recognize.
Please help I have a lot of love and labour involved
Thanks
Scott
All of your folders have question mark icons. This document describes how to fix this (see FIgure 4 and associated text)
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Not sure I understand the issue fully. What do you mean LR doesn't recognize the drive? You select Import and don't see it showing up as an option:
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All my photos have already been imported into light room. They re all on the EHD, not on the computer. Since I backed up my photos to another EHD for safe keeping, when I plug the original EHD to my laptop light room will not allow me to develop the photos, saying the file could not be found. I can use other programs on my laptop to view the photos from the EHD but not light room
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From what you describe, it would seem that you moved the images to the new EHD instead of copying them. Could that possibly be the case?
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All the photos are still on the hard drive as I can access them from other programs
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So LR sees the drive right?
You've imported them before correct?
So LR isn't allowing you to import them again which is what it's supposed to do unless you turn off the "Don't Import Suspected Duplicates" check box option.
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Yes they have all been imported, I have been working on them for weeks. Since I backed them to the other ehd it does not recognize the original drive. It shows question marks beside all the files but I can access the photos on other programs on the computer
Thanks for bearing with me here
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it won't allow me to import again as all the photos are darkened
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No reason really, some else mentioned maybe I moved them rather than copy. But yes they are still on the hard drive
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I will see about moving the photos back
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scottr42667908 wrote
I will see about moving the photos back
I don't understand. If they are still on the hard drive then why would you have to move them back?
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Can you use "Find Missing Folder" to relink the images to your HD? I had an issue similar in that I had two several hard drives and LR kept saying it couldn't find the folders after I had different hard drives connected. I finally fixed this issue, on Windows, by assigning a drive letter, rather than letting the computer do so. So I named one HD "P" so it was far enough down the alphabet not to run into issues with other drives.
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Is there a find folders, I have been trying to find missing photos but it is not working. How do you rename a drive, and would I have to import all again and if I do I lose all the editing?
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No you don't have to reimport. I forget how to change the drive letter, but you can Google it. It was very easy to do, and it saved me lots of headaches. To use find missing folders, right click on the folders that have the question mark. Do this at the highest level, as it will find sub folders for you. You will be promoted to locate the folders, so just navigate to where they are using the LR prompt.
And you do want to change the drive letter and not just the volume name. It's good to have unique volume names, but it doesn't help LR.
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Here's one link on reasigning a drive letter:
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Here's a link on how to find missing photos:
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I tried to find missing folders, all it did was open another folder and put the missing pictures in it.
I will try those tomorrow. Thanks for that. I will now drown my sorrows about the football game tonight.
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All of your folders have question mark icons. This document describes how to fix this (see FIgure 4 and associated text)
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Thank you for pointing me to this. All my photos and folders found.
Thank you all for your help as well, the link above was a saviour
Scott