Creating a catalog using an external drive

[acdaly]

I am using LR6 (Windows). I am trying to explore the option of outsourcing my processing work (weddings).

To date i have used the one catalog that LR automatically sets up. This is on my internal hard drive and my folders are all on my external hard drive.

I need to get the catalog in the same folder on the external drive.

I keep getting an error message when trying to create a catalog using the external drive - "Lightroom cannot create a Catalog on network ......., LR Catalogs cannot be opened on network volumes, removable storage, or read only volumes"

Please can someone help solve my problem?

Thanks

[Peru Bob]

Are you running as an administrator and have write permissions?

[acdaly]

I'm assuming I'm running as an administrator ? How do i check?

[Peru Bob]

Right click on the icon you open Lightroom with and choose Run as administrator.,

[acdaly]

yes I'm running as an administrator, tried again and getting the same error message.

[Just Shoot Me]

You say External drive but you have failed to state how that external drive is connected to your system.

Is it connected to a USB, Fire wire or Thunderbolt port?

Or is it actually a drive, USB or other, that is connected to some other device on your LAN or actually a NAS.

You can only store the catalog on a drive that is Physically connected to the system LR is running on. There also may be a problem if the OS is seeing that external as a Removable drive like a SD or CF card.

[acdaly]

I have a WD My Cloud (mirror server) in my home - connected through the wifi.

Thank you.

[dj_paige]

I have never tried, but I'm pretty sure LR doesn't allow catalog files to be on wifi drives. The drive must be physically connected, and it may not be a removable drive either (like a thumb drive).

[Just Shoot Me]

acdaly  wrote

I have a WD My Cloud (mirror server) in my home - connected through the wifi.

Thank you.

Connected through your WiFi, Wireless LAN, is a Network drive and not physically connected to your system. So that is why you can't create a catalog on it. you can Copy the catalog to it so you can take it to your off site editor but they will need to copy the catalog to a local drive on there system to work with it.