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Robin Page
Member
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2016
- Messages
- 78
- Location
- Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 11.5
- Operating System
- macOS 12 Monterey
I have been in a real pickle with my Lightroom set up. It started with the inability of my i27Mac to handle Monterey and therefore the latest versions of Classic. Lightroom had run brilliantly on the i27 using a 2 disk 8Tb Raid setup.
I wanted but could not purchase an M1 MacBook with 8Tb due to supply chain problems but needed to act fast so purchased the only M1 chipped MacBook which was available which only has a 1Tb HD. I decided that I would hang small portable 4Tb Seagate drives off the MacBook - one as the data storage and the other as a backup. Using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) I made a copy of the Raid drive data - 2.83Tb which was an exact clone and CCC gave it the name Raid- and to my great joy my Lightroom lit up OK with all of my 144,000 files displaying and accessible. Then, after a month or so, I had a problem with the Seagate drive in that it would not mount. I consulted Dr Google and purchased gold plated connectors for the Seagate but still no joy. My IT man, who is not Lightroom savvy, managed to get the Seagate to mount after running 2 Disk Utility first aid repairs but warned me somewhat amusingly saying, "there are only two types of disk in this world, one that is broken and one that is about to break". So after more research I purchased two LaCie Rugged 5Tb external drives and two high capacity USB C cables. I need to travel with my setup and thus the physically smaller drives were chosen.
Using CCC I did a backup of the Seagate drive to one of the LaCies with the view of using the other as a new backup. That file transfer took 28 hours and when I opened up my catalogue from the LaCie my 144,000 files were there BUT none of the images were connected. Thinking that Lightroom was looking for a drive named Raid I renamed the drive but on opening Lightroom the files still do not connect.
Is there a way I can reconnect the catalogue to the data? There is no way I am going to connect 144,000 files manually. I have multiple backups now and know that I have not lost anything but I need to get back to work on Lightroom. Lightroom is still working using my previously repaired Seagate drive but I need to get the new LaCie drives working and keep the Seagate as security backups as of 1st August which was my endpoint with the i27. Fortunately, since that date I have been travelling (2 months) and using a temporary catalogue which is using the MacBook HD and is backed up to an SSD drive. Once I have my main catalogue running happily I will bring the temporary catalogue into the main.
Sorry this is a bit long winded but it is a complicated story. I hope there is a relatively simple solution.
I wanted but could not purchase an M1 MacBook with 8Tb due to supply chain problems but needed to act fast so purchased the only M1 chipped MacBook which was available which only has a 1Tb HD. I decided that I would hang small portable 4Tb Seagate drives off the MacBook - one as the data storage and the other as a backup. Using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) I made a copy of the Raid drive data - 2.83Tb which was an exact clone and CCC gave it the name Raid- and to my great joy my Lightroom lit up OK with all of my 144,000 files displaying and accessible. Then, after a month or so, I had a problem with the Seagate drive in that it would not mount. I consulted Dr Google and purchased gold plated connectors for the Seagate but still no joy. My IT man, who is not Lightroom savvy, managed to get the Seagate to mount after running 2 Disk Utility first aid repairs but warned me somewhat amusingly saying, "there are only two types of disk in this world, one that is broken and one that is about to break". So after more research I purchased two LaCie Rugged 5Tb external drives and two high capacity USB C cables. I need to travel with my setup and thus the physically smaller drives were chosen.
Using CCC I did a backup of the Seagate drive to one of the LaCies with the view of using the other as a new backup. That file transfer took 28 hours and when I opened up my catalogue from the LaCie my 144,000 files were there BUT none of the images were connected. Thinking that Lightroom was looking for a drive named Raid I renamed the drive but on opening Lightroom the files still do not connect.
Is there a way I can reconnect the catalogue to the data? There is no way I am going to connect 144,000 files manually. I have multiple backups now and know that I have not lost anything but I need to get back to work on Lightroom. Lightroom is still working using my previously repaired Seagate drive but I need to get the new LaCie drives working and keep the Seagate as security backups as of 1st August which was my endpoint with the i27. Fortunately, since that date I have been travelling (2 months) and using a temporary catalogue which is using the MacBook HD and is backed up to an SSD drive. Once I have my main catalogue running happily I will bring the temporary catalogue into the main.
Sorry this is a bit long winded but it is a complicated story. I hope there is a relatively simple solution.
