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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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    Computer Advice

    Thanks Phil for your detailed response. I usually do fresh installs on new computers. Being forced to do that anyway to some extent as my version of Microsoft Office is 2010 Professional and is no longer supported. Fortunately one of sons has spare licences for 365.
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    Computer Advice

    Thanks Phil. To be clear is this for if you are replacing the HDD with a SSD in an existing PC or if transferring programs and data to a new one? Greg - don't know why you assumed I'm a lady, though of course Chris can be either, though more often associated with male. I know two other Chris's...
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    Computer Advice

    Phil - what's the migration utility used for? Thanks, Chris
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    Catalogs Startup Issues

    Glad you mentioned the problems with masking. I shall avoid it like the plague until I replace my PC! Chris
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    Computer Advice

    Thanks Phil Both my external backups are spinners and whilst a few years old haven't had frequent use. I shall probably replace the older and smaller one soon anyway. I shall take Greg's advice and make sure the ports in the new PC are suitable for SSD drives if I go down that route in the...
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    Computer Advice

    Hi Greg, thanks for your further thoughts. I have two folders residing on the D Drive (Windows 10, Lightroom and other Adobe stuff and other programs are on the C Drive partition). One called Lightroom amounting to 217GB and containing catalogues and backups and the other called For Lightroom...
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    Computer Advice

    Yes, I'm really appreciating the help and guidance as well. I shall probably go for 32GB of RAM but might increase it. I was thinking about going down the route of a 500GB SSD as the C Drive (currently 150GB which is way too small) and then another HDD (a slower but bigger one, maybe 5TB) for...
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    Computer Advice

    Thanks David, I will take a look as well. Yeah, number of times I've bought something and then it's been updated/new version is brought out! Having said that you can put things off for too long sometimes! Chris
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    Catalogs Startup Issues

    Thank you Victoria, sounds like a plan!
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    Catalogs Startup Issues

    Thanks Victoria. Interestingly when just turning the PC on since turning off last night some of the "lost" GB have returned to the C Drive! I do need to provide some additional headroom though so will be having a clear out! Chris PS. Need to get your book to cover Classic to replace my LR6 one.
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