Tahoe Dave
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- Joined
- Aug 25, 2020
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- Lightroom Version Number
- LR Classic 9.4
- Operating System
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
Brand new iMac (this week) w OS X Catalina 10.15.6. I keep my masters on an external Seagate 8tb drive, and the LR catalog on my internal 4tb SSD. Until this new computer, I used the 8TB for everything, and this structure has been in place for a few years. No problem until this morning. I am in the process of moving folders around (INSIDE LR) so need a clean and correct directory map before I start that process
LR Library SEEMS to think that my 8TB drive is now a "volume" on my internal Mac HD. Not just the folders ON the drive, but the WHOLE drive itself. See first screenshot. It is not now, nor has it ever been anything other than an External Drive and LR has never identified it otherwise. See second screenshot showing Finder sidebar with separate locations for various external HDD's. I did nothing outside of LR . In fact, I did nothing at all this morning except open LR to start the folder project. (Catalina has been changing permissions on external drives on me when I turn my back, but that seems to be a different issue with Catalina's wonky security issues.)
Then to make matters weirder, the LR directory structure in the Library no longer shows other drives (mostly backups) that are connected and which show up with no problem in Finder. But if I try to add themas folders to LR, instead of just adding them as locations in the sidebar, I get an import dialog inviting me to import photos from the various backup drives. Screenshot 3. Not a big deal, but why wouldn’t those drives just show up in the main Library panel? They're backups, so I'm not going to import anything. But they ARE connected drives and ought to show up.
Is this LR off on a frolic and detour on its own? Or is it Catalina sending rogue instructions to LR? Any clue how to correct this?
LR Library SEEMS to think that my 8TB drive is now a "volume" on my internal Mac HD. Not just the folders ON the drive, but the WHOLE drive itself. See first screenshot. It is not now, nor has it ever been anything other than an External Drive and LR has never identified it otherwise. See second screenshot showing Finder sidebar with separate locations for various external HDD's. I did nothing outside of LR . In fact, I did nothing at all this morning except open LR to start the folder project. (Catalina has been changing permissions on external drives on me when I turn my back, but that seems to be a different issue with Catalina's wonky security issues.)
Then to make matters weirder, the LR directory structure in the Library no longer shows other drives (mostly backups) that are connected and which show up with no problem in Finder. But if I try to add themas folders to LR, instead of just adding them as locations in the sidebar, I get an import dialog inviting me to import photos from the various backup drives. Screenshot 3. Not a big deal, but why wouldn’t those drives just show up in the main Library panel? They're backups, so I'm not going to import anything. But they ARE connected drives and ought to show up.
Is this LR off on a frolic and detour on its own? Or is it Catalina sending rogue instructions to LR? Any clue how to correct this?