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1. Re: DON'T USE LIGHTROOM TO MOVE PHOTOS!!!
web-weaver Aug 10, 2013 7:43 PM (in response to d@v!dm)There have been reports similar to yours over the years - maybe half a dozen, or so.
Some of these occurrences might be due to "operator error" - although reading your post, I don't think "operator error" applies in your case.
I remember Adobe answering to one of these posts saying that they take such reports seriously, that they tried to reproduce this behavior but could not, although - as they said - they threw everything they could think of at it.
As far as I remember all of the reported incidences occurred when large-ish amounts of images were moved in one fell swoop, i.e. image folders, parent folders, or whole drives.
I would advise anybody wanting to move image folders, parent (image) folders , or whole drives to a new location (a new external drive for instance) to do this via your OS and re-link in Lr.
It is advisable that on each of the drives you have one (1) parent folder for all image folders on this drive, i.e. each image folder is a sub-folder (or a sub-sub folder, etc) of this one parent folder.
All what you have to do is move this parent folder (with all its sub-folders) via your OS and then in Lr you have to re-link only the parent folder. Lr will find the sub-folders on its own, provided that on the occasion of moving the parent folder you do not change the folder structure or the folder names.
But if you do not have this one parent folder presently, I would advise against creating it in Lr because this might just incur what you never want to happen.
BTW: One very recent poster found his/her images in the Trash Can.
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2. Re: DON'T USE LIGHTROOM TO MOVE PHOTOS!!!
BKKDon Aug 10, 2013 8:07 PM (in response to web-weaver)I also had the same problem on Win 7 x64 but the issue here was that it didn't remember moving all of the photos even though they were moved on disk so I had to delete the directory, wind back the catalog and copy the files using the OS then re-link the parent folder.
I concur .... use the OS!


