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  1. S

    How do I tell LrC that files from a failed drive are on a new drive (from a backup) that is named the same.

    Hello everyone. One of my external drives containing raw photo files failed; the Lr catalog is on my M1 Macbook internal drive. I have a backup and a new drive to copy them to, but I'm not sure about the logistics of telling Lightroom where the files are now located. My thought was to name the...
  2. A

    Import Lightroom, Drives, Ports and External Drive Confusion

    Hello First, I have made absolutely no changes to my laptop, external drive for photo storage etc., since last using Lightroom. I tried importing some photos into a new folder. Lightroom said that the destination folder was unavailable. However, (per forum posts) I created a folder on my...
  3. S

    External Portable SSD, Catalog & Other Files

    My MBP (MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)) has to go back to Apple to have the keyboard replaced so I've spent the last 2 days preparing it to go and plan to use my old MBP (Late 2013) whilst it's away. I currently have my LR Classic catalog in Pictures - Lightroom - Catalog but am considering moving...
  4. S

    Will I encounter issues reformatting ExFAT 32 to APFS

    Dear Forum I use an iMAC with latest OS and Lightroom Classic. I only have a very limited 256 gb SSD hard drive on the iMAC I am currently using two external Samsung T5 SSD drives both formatted in ExFAT One of the SSDs (blue) has my uncatalogued photos which I am migrating to the other SSD...
  5. J

    External drive shows twice in LR, with different contents

    HI all. I have a brand new Macbook Pro M1 Max with 64 Gb of RAM. I'm running the latest versions of both Monterey and Lightroom. I have an external drive called Photos. LR has started showing that drive twice in LR, one with just one folder and one with all the other photos. It appears as just...
  6. W

    Lightroom edits disappear on external drive backup

    I use Lightroom Classic 11.0 as well as Photoshop 2022 v 23.0.1 on a MacBook Pro running Big Sur v11.6. When I download NEF images from my Nikon cameras to my Mac following a photoshoot, I go through the images and do some basic edits using Lightroom on those that look good, and grade them...
  7. R

    Lightroom is showing my photos but not recognizing them after a transfer to external drive

    Hi! I hope someone here can help me. I am not a tech person at all so I'm kind of at a loss what to do here. I used to have all of my photos on my desktop (1 TB), but then had to move them to an external hard drive as I was running out of room and the computer was very slow. I transferred the...
  8. NJHeart2Heart

    Lightroom screen flicker with external hard drive

    Hi all, I hope you all have survived 2020 with minimal health issues, and are enjoying this holiday season. I just recently opened Lightroom after a long hiatus. Initially LR didn't see where the catalog was, but I was able to restore the connection and it found the photos on my original...
  9. S

    Copy Photos in Collection to External Drive?

    Hi. I'm new to LR and have already learned a lot through this site, but I'm still getting used to the folder and collection structure. I've imported photos from several trips into LR. The photos are spread across several folders on an external hard drive. I'd like to move a copy of each of the...
  10. R

    Lightroom misadventure while renaming external drive

    Help! I have my photograph files (CR2s and JPGs) as well as my Lightroom catalogue on an external USB flash drive. For a reason too longwinded to post here, I needed to change the name of the external USB drive from "Photographs" to "Seagate." As soon as I did this, I realized that Lightroom...
  11. J

    Import New User :) All Photos Stored on an external Seagate - Cannot ADD on Import

    Hello, I am a newbie to post processing, photo organizing etc. I store all my pictures on an external Seagate Backup Plus drive and have a 2nd copy on another external Seagate drive. I attempted a first Import of pictures and wanted to ADD as I already have a chronological folder structure for...
  12. S

    How to consolidate my photos in one location

    Hello! I currently have part of my photograph catalog on my iMac (running OS Mojave 10.14.2) and the rest on an external drive. When I first started using Lightroom I downloaded directly from my SD card to the Mac but when I started to run out of space I began downloading directly to the...
  13. T

    Looking for suggestions: best approach using LRCC and /or LRCC Classic to manage current (10GB) and archived (60GB) libraries

    I'm currently trialling the Photography Plan and plan to opt for the 20GB of storage plan. I no longer amass thousands of images per month so in terms of the images I need access to for viewing / editing on a daily basis, my needs are quite modest and 20GB will be more than enough cloud storage...
  14. nIkedoni1a

    Using LR6 on two Computers

    On a desktop mac at home I started editing images in LR6 that I have stored on an internal drive. I am traveling and want to continue working with images in that folder so I exported that folder "export as catalog" to a external drive. I have LR6 installed on my MacBook and want to continue...
  15. M

    Transferring all catalogues and images from external drive to new external drive

    I have all my images and LR catalogues (yes I started life in LR with separate catalogues for large shoots) on an external drive using 3.5GB. I am running out of space so I have bought an external Raid 1 drive (2 x 8TB). I am running the new CC Classic. Some folders of images have their own...
  16. A

    Catalogs New PC and Workflow - Need Help!!

    Operating System: Windows 10 Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): 7.1 Hello, new member here, and hoping someone will know how to help me out! I just finished building a new PC, and really excited to be working on a much faster machine, but also because it will help me improve my...
  17. nkawoods

    Syncing Issues - How Can I Revert Back Safely to Clean Up?

    Operating System: Mac OS Sierra 10.12 Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): Currently CC 2015.13 Release I already upgraded to Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC, created all kinds of sync issues for myself, and reverted back to 2015.13 hoping that would clear up the issues. It...
  18. guido.coza

    Stil not happy with catalog location and sync fuction

    Hi All after many battles with trying to get two lightroom catalogs to sync how I want it, I decided to move the LR catalog onto a external USB 3 HD where most (98%) of the pics are. The drawback is LR becomes very sluggish and there the first question IF i had to move the catalog on an...
  19. R

    Help with LR catalog and an external drive - Houston, we have a problem...

    Howdy to all from Houston, TX. I have copied all my laptop's internal photos to an external drive, adding them to existing folders of images that were being stored off my laptop, because of hard drive limitations. All of my images are now inside one folder on the new external drive. I want LR...
  20. LtFDrebbin

    new hard drive and LR lost mapping

    Hello, I store LR and my catalog on my hard drive. I store all of my photos on an external hard drive. I recently added 8GB more RAM to my computer. I used LR for a week or 2 and all was fine. I then added a Samsung 960 EVO SSD. The computer runs much faster, and LR worked great. After about...
  21. A

    Missing LR files after moving to another external drive

    I have apparently screwed something up royally. I am running LR CC on a Toshiba laptop with 8GB and 500GB HD . I have an external 5TB HD. My laptop was choked with photo files so I wanted to use the external drive as the main HD. To be safe instead of moving the images and LR info for the...
  22. M

    Started Traveling. Catalog Dilemma

    Hello all, Recently I have started traveling more frequently than I am used to, for various projects, some weeks a daily basis (4+ hours in the car) or weekly basis (out for 3-4 days, back for 2-3 days) All my pictures/folders reside on my Synology. My catalog sits on my macbook pro. I...
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    External drive going between Apple Macbook and Windows desktop

    I'm trying to help a friend who has got an error pop up "lrcat=0bytes" (or something close to this). He works with an external drive between a Macbook and a Windows desktop. Having spent the day Saturday on the laptop, he spent Sunday on the desktop. Monday morning has thrown up the error...
  24. T

    GRAID Failed

    Hi! My G-RAID with Thunderbolt (G-RAID with Thunderbolt 2 | G-Technology) failed. I contacted the support. They were really nice and they are going to send me a new drive as it's inside the warranty period. I was using RAID-1. My question is: when the new drive arrives is just a matter of plug...
    • Thiago Rossi
    • Thread
    • drive external drive g-raid g-tech g-technology raid
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: The Lounge
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