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    Storage, backup and OneDrive

    That's good news. Yes, the use of masks does seem to be "hungry" which is why I haven't tried yet!
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    Storage, backup and OneDrive

    Fingers crossed it does the trick. As I said I only mentioned it because freeing up space didn't really help me but my PC was way older than yours! Sorry to have gone off at at tangent to your original question.
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    Storage, backup and OneDrive

    Okey dokey. Just realised when reading back through your original post that you intend using one of your external drives as a working drive for your photos so you should have plenty of space. My PC was a good few years old and even with plenty of space on the C and D drives it was running...
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    Storage, backup and OneDrive

    Jane, are the 350GB of photos on the PC all needed for editing in LR? I keep all the photos taken from my cameras on my external drives and just keep those for LR on the PC drive which is far less than 350GB. I take a lot of bird photographs and so have a lot of very similar or reject images...
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    How to check if an image on hard disk is in LR Classic

    If there are only a few files you can also search for each file in Library. Click on Text above the images, choose Filename from the drop-down list and then enter the file name in the Search box. Just used this to check that some files were infact missing before I reimported them.
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    Duplicate Images

    Thanks. Had another look and indeed the duplicates were copies. They must have been created when I reimported the missing files. As I said earlier, with hindsight I shouldn't have done this but should have just relinked the images to the files once reinstated in the folder. The copies have now...
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    Duplicate Images

    Thanks for the reply Ken. That's exactly what I have done, reinstated the exact same file from my backups, but as I say I have duplicates in LR now. Why should removing one via LR cause both to disappear from the Library? I can't remember now but I may have reimported the files into LR which is...
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    Duplicate Images

    As part of my recent housekeeping I've found that a few files were missing from my "For Lightroom" folder as I call it. Don't know why but not a big problem to fix. The image is showing in LR but can't develop as message says the file is missing. I've reinstated the file using Explorer (perhaps...
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    Producing a List of Image Filenames

    Thanks for the additional suggestions. I'm preferring to go into each folder to see exactly what I've got and then manually deleting. Some of the folders are a bit of a mess with images that LR doesn't know about/aren't being used. When I first started using LR some years ago I didn't realise...
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    Quick Question - External Drive Renaming

    Thanks Cletus. I think starting at P will suit me fine. Chris
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    Producing a List of Image Filenames

    Looked at JB Listview first and bought a copy. Brilliant, just what I wanted. Thanks again.
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    Producing a List of Image Filenames

    Thanks, sounds just the job. Chris
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    Producing a List of Image Filenames

    Hi - when I first starting using Lightroom some years ago I used to import all the photos from my cameras and then edit a small number of them with the result that I have a lot of reject image files in the folders that I use for importing into Lightroom. These folders are held on Drive D and I...
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    Quick Question - External Drive Renaming

    Thanks Ken. The highest letter I've encountered so far for my drives is G so I'm looking for what is "safe" beyond that? I know I could use say, X, Y and Z but I prefer to start a bit lower.
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    Quick Question - External Drive Renaming

    Hi - I've recently changed a couple of my external drives and want to rename them so that Windows (11) doesn't change the drive letter when they are plugged in. I did read in another post sometime ago that using letters later in the alphabet would avoid the drive letter changing but can't find...
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