hard drive

  1. R

    External Drive Can't be Unmounted

    Mac Mini with 16 GB memory running 13.3.1 Lightroom Classic 12.3 After a short period of time, maybe a day or less, my two Western Digital drives show in the finder, but their contents don’t. I can’t eject them either to remount, I have a message that “one or more programs may be using it”. If...
  2. gegjr

    LrC Windows-10 Users external HD

    This really isn't a LrC question so I apologize upfront and if moderators wish to delete or move I understand. Anyway, after latest Windows-10 update when I opened LrC then attached the drive (I usually do it other way around) where I keep my catalog and images, Windows didn't display the drive...
  3. D

    Library module External hard drive issue

    Please help. I use windows 10. Catalog is on internal hard drive. Photos saved on external hard drive. After removing hard drive, closing LR , computer shut down, restart, LR open, LR shows photos missing. Plug in hard drive still no joy. So start everything with ext. HD plugged in and LR...
  4. kearneyimages

    Hard Drive Upgrade Advice

    Hi, I am currently storing all my images on a WD 3TB 5400rpm drive. I am finding LR performance slow and I need to upgrade this drive as it’s 5 years old. I am looking at the WD Black Performance Drive and am wondering if this is a good upgrade and would make any performance improvements? My...
  5. C

    Smart Previews - to use or not to use?

    For some reason today, the topic has been Smart Previews on all of the videos that I've been watching, and I'm wondering if it's something I should be doing. For reference, I'm using a 2019 Macbook 13" with 250gb of flash memory. Because the storage on this laptop is at a premium, I've chosen...
  6. Jerry H

    External drive - correct format

    My question relates to Hard Disc Format: I am intending to move my 1.8Tb lightroom catalogue and files from an internal drive to a larger external drive. I am currently using Windows 10 on my current PC which is powerful enough to cope with the demands of editing even though it is of 2013...
  7. R

    Problem moving photos from one hard drive to another

    Operating System: Mac OS 10.13 Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): 6.7 I've shifted my photos from a failing hard drive to a new hard drive. When I try to update the folder location as per this post How do I move only my photos to another hard drive, leaving the catalog where it...
  8. Ian.B

    deleting old keywords from hard drive

    Operating System: Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): Win 10 sorry; another i may have asked here before On1 is picking up ALL old unused, deleted from Lr keywords; even some I have not seen for years Is there a way to safely remove keywords from the hard drive? Cheers
  9. rclanger

    Sync For the 1st time

    Operating System: Windows 10 Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): LR Classic I am just getting started. To recap I was able to install LR Classic on my desktop, converted my catalog, and made sure I could go from start to finish using my current workflow. Everything was great...
  10. M

    HELP! My external drive died! Is there anyway to retrieve my files or previews?

    Operating System: Mac OS 10 Lightroom Version: CC 2015.12 [ 1125239 ] (Please go to Help menu > System Info to double check the exact version number) Question or Description of Problem: My external hard drive crashed and now my smart collection preview is empty and shows the "missing file"...
  11. craigbrandau

    Hard Drive Preferences

    Hi, I have two hard drives. One that is part of my Mac and an external hard drive. When I go to import my photos, they automatically go to my Mac's HD. I want them to only go to my external. I know I can choose which one to import to, but would rather just have the one option: the external...
  12. 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...
  13. LindseyAnderson

    User created problem =( HD unplugged while converting to DNG -> has lead to a lot of strange problem

    MacBook Pro - Sierra Version 10.12.4 Lightroom Last night, I was downloading/moving from my SD Card to my Toshiba External Harddrive a session (Copy and Converting to DNG) My files had all copied and were in the middle of converting to DNG when my hard drive accidentally got knocked off the...
  14. A

    Sees my files but everything grey

    Hi, I just moved a relatively large number of files (within lightroom) from my internal hd to an external hd. The move seems to have gone fine. I can see that in lightroom that the files are all there, but everything is basically staying grey. If I click on a thumbnail in the film strip and...
  15. Megan

    Hard drive crashed, wedding photos gone! Help!

    Hi everyone, My wedding photographer had some of my wedding photos in Lightroom and her computer crashed (they were deleted from SD card and thery were not backed up). So, we paid $800 to have the hard drive recovered and none of the Lightroom catalogs were recovered. I am devestated so wanted...
  16. 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...
  17. WildVanilla

    I'm getting quite into this Publish thing

    Hi Publish Services has been something I've largely ignored, for fear of messing things up. But over the Christmas / New Year holiday I've bitten the bullet and gone for it! Here's what I'm now using it for: Hard Drive 1: my local camera club requires competition photos to be 1400x1050 with...
  18. Chris Brown

    What the heck is going on (Portable HD)

    Ok, I have searched and searched for a solution. Can't find one and I am sure it is pretty damn simple. I use a portable hard drive to store my photos on, as well as my catalogs. Even my backups. I also backup, this drive, so yea, I am safe. I travel every other week and I want to be able to...
  19. O

    My Hard drives are a mess, and Aperture won't copy to new HD

    I have been using Aperture, and want to switch to LR. My Mac Hard drive is nearly full, and I have another External HD that is also full with Misc pictures not linked to Aperture Just files. I am trying to get all of my pictures in one place and organized. I was going to start by copying the...
  20. D

    LR Crashing trying to "import" large volume of pics from NAS

    I've hit a brick wall. . . I have about 3.5TB of photos that were on an external USB drive tied to a 7 year old iMac. . . . and just upgraded to latest, greatest iMAC and Synology NAS with two 4TB drives in RAID1. Not wanting to "move" photos off my USB Ext drive ,I copied them (outside LR)...
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