• Welcome to the Lightroom Queen Forums! We're a friendly bunch, so please feel free to register and join in the conversation. If you're not familiar with forums, you'll find step by step instructions on how to post your first thread under Help at the bottom of the page. You're also welcome to download our free Lightroom Quick Start eBooks and explore our other FAQ resources.
  • Stop struggling with Lightroom! There's no need to spend hours hunting for the answers to your Lightroom Classic questions. All the information you need is in Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ!

    To help you get started, there's a series of easy tutorials to guide you through a simple workflow. As you grow in confidence, the book switches to a conversational FAQ format, so you can quickly find answers to advanced questions. And better still, the eBooks are updated for every release, so it's always up to date.

Changing Names of External Drives

Status
Not open for further replies.
J

Jimmy Thompson

New Member
Joined
Oct 19, 2018
Messages
4
Lightroom Experience
Intermediate
Lightroom Version
Cloud Service
Lightroom Version Number
Lightroom Classic Release 12.1
Operating System
  1. macOS 12 Monterey
How do I change the names of external drives so Lightroom can find the photos? I currently have an enclosure with drives that are almost full and I'll be adding 2 additional drives. I'll then change some of the drive names when I reorganize the files. I have a 2017 iMac Pro running Lightroom Classic 12.1. Thanks in advance for the help.
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
If you mean you want to change the name of the drive so it matches what Lightroom expects: that is something you do in the Macintosh Finder. If you mean Lightroom is now expecting the images to be on ‘Drive A’ and you want to change that to ‘Drive B’ because that is where you moved the images to; that is something you do in Lightroom at the folder level, not the disk level: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/
 
Upvote 1 Downvote
In Finder on the left panel is a list of volumes by name. Right click on the desired volume and choose "Rename..." from the context menu. You will need to do this with all apps that might be using the volume closed (including Lightroom Classic)
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top