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  1. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Wow, brilliant, thank you for your persistence. I seem to beck in full operation. The system went through some unexpected operations and fixes along the way, but I boldly followed them and yippee. Have a couple of odd things arrive in my Folders, like an M folder, with a lot of images with...
  2. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Thanks so much again, I don't access to the E drive now, so will have follow the route you've provided. I did look at the Pictures folder on the internal drive and went to properties. This is what I found, just in case it offers any solution thought I'd pass it along. The folder is dated...
  3. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Sorry to be so dumb and keep being a nuisance Have been using LR for about 10 years, but clearly don't know much. I did move move my catalog, or my image files not sure of the the difference as i figured the catalog was just the sum total of all my images, to E. the intention was to reduce...
  4. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Well I don't know how to distinguish sorry. It is a direct transfer from my previous working version E drive. I took that to be "main catalog" as I had been using it for years as such. Could that status have changed by my copying to a new drive? What would un-zipping do? Could I then access my...
  5. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    thanks, it get more frightening for me. I have tried another route. In K I right click on Main Lightroom Catalog then get a drop down and click on "Open" then get Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.zip Should I try and unzip?
  6. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Thanks again, When I open that folder I get Lightroom Catalog.lrcat When i double click on that it asks "how to open", when I click on Lightroom I get the confirm window attached. At this point I stopped. I then tried your suggestion of looking at the Preferences - General tab and i get as...
  7. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Thank you and sorry for the confusion. Firstly, the catalog you saw is the wrong one. it is the only one that opens up, I'm not even sure how it got there, it certainly isn't intended to be a separate catalog. The reason I tried to show the recent catalog menu was to show what comes up if I look...
  8. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Well I thought it was all done. I then went on to erase files from the old drive, after doing some work on the new drive (K) then disconnect the old one (E) and reconnect the new one (K). Somehow the new drive disappeared from my catalog and recently used catalogs, and now I cant get it back...
  9. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Uh! thank you. Simple when you follow the correct procedure. Thanks so much. All done now.
  10. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Thank you. Now I cannot connect my new ext HDD. I have transferred all files/folders, parent and sub folders to a new drive that I now want to be my working drive. I have read and listened to a swag of tutorials. In fact I last did this about 3 years ago, no problems, but this time I can't get...
  11. Brian Scantlebury

    Are these files necessary?

    Lightroom version: CC 2015.12 [ 1125239 ] License: Trial Operating system: Windows 10 Version: 10.0 Application architecture: x64 System architecture: x64 Sorry, dont know whats happened below, or why my "licence" reverts to trial all the time. Have had Adobe assistance to solv e it 2 now...
  12. Brian Scantlebury

    Missing Files

    Dan, yes they did all change similarly ie untitled 123.dng Numbers sequential. Not sure what you mean by bulk rename, or how that would help? Wouldn't just end up with something other than "untitled"? Thanks you, Brian
  13. Brian Scantlebury

    Missing Files

    Oh, that's what I was beginning to think. How did they change, don't really know. Assume must have inadvertently synched them. Only thing I can think of. Thanks for your help anyway. Regards Brian
  14. Brian Scantlebury

    Missing Files

    Thanks again Victoria, I have found a way to recover some of them one by one by one. But it seems that the file names have changed, across the whole folder somehow. Guess that is going to require a lot of searching to get them individually. Is there another way? Have attached a screen shot.
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    Missing Files

    Victoria, another thought, I have been exporting to a folder on c drive. they export in the small smart preview size. Have made a number of attempts to do that and some (though not all) of the exclamation marke are those. The others seem to all be one I have given a star rating. Not sure if...
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