Exporting Issues

[Mark Smith]

Hello all,

**ISSUE**

When I export to an external drive my internal drive loses the equal disk space - then when I quit lightroom the space ''magically'' reappears back on my internal HDD (exports are on my external in the correct place) - however the disk thinks it's full and the internal disk space errors pops up and stops the exporting.

I initially had the library on my internal disk and the original images on the external, attempting to export to the external - then when the issue persisted I scrapped everything and created an entirely new library on the external - reimported the images from the external (where the original images are) and still same issue when I try to export.

This is quite unusual and has just started happening. In the past I could have as little as 1GB of internal disk space and work off my 2TB external without issue.




**Background**

RAW-TIFF from a 5D mark II.

Usually 1K+ images from a macbook to an external drive via fw8''.

I have done this for quite some time using both version 1 and 2 of lightroom and a mixture of dSLR's. No previous issue



Any ideas how to correct this? I've trashed my .plist and gone through some other house keeping.....

Thanks

 

[Mark Smith]

Well it didn't complete,

The folder was supposed to be roughly 55 GB when finished..

I monitored users before and after, I even did it with tinker tool which shows hidden extensions... and no luck

I think something may be corrupt.

I spoke with adobe and a slew of other people. If I can't get to the bottom of it then i'm going to do an archive and install of OSX..... and if that doesn't do it erase and install - it seems extreme but I need to start outputting , im a week behind on work and since I dont have a render farm in my basement, it's going to take some time to get back on track...

Thanks for everyones efforts

Much much appreciated