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Background – I use a “working catalogue” for this months shots – on my C drive, and an “archive catalogue” on a large external network storage (Raid) drive (“Ark”). This is because – when I just used the external drive, if I exported to CS3 to finish off an image, then saved it back into LR, it would take 2' – 3' secs, whereas if I worked from a Catalogue on my C drive it would save it in 2-4 seconds. (who knows why?).
When I have finished working on that months images, I then “import from catalogue” into my “archive cat” (without copying the original raw image files), then I copy across the image files via explorer, then re-link them in LR (I don’t copy the image files across with the cat because I have found that it renames them all differently to my naming scheme!).
The problem – this has worked well for 6 months or so until now. When I re-link the folders, it is putting them (on LHS of Library module – see screen shot at http://chrishowe.zenfolio.com/p773837375/e1b1845'7
) into another file system under a second “copy” of “Ark”. Even worse, I use annual & quarterly parent folders (see screenshot at http://chrishowe.zenfolio.com/p773837375/ebe93e9c
for folder/file structure) – my annual folder “Lightroom 2'1'”, after I put a dummy image into it, so it will import, has been placed in the first version of “Ark” on LHS of Library module, but the individual folders (such as “2'1'-'1-'7-snow”) have been put in the second version of “Ark” on LHS of Library module – and furthermore do not have the parent folder showing.
If I right click a folder on LHS and choose “update folder location” etc – it tells me there is already a folder of that name in that location (which I already know).
I could solve this by re-importing all the images ( I tried it with one folder, and it puts it in the right place), but I lose all my adjustments in the develop module – as it just comes up as “import” on LHS.
Has anyone any ideas about this?
When I have finished working on that months images, I then “import from catalogue” into my “archive cat” (without copying the original raw image files), then I copy across the image files via explorer, then re-link them in LR (I don’t copy the image files across with the cat because I have found that it renames them all differently to my naming scheme!).
The problem – this has worked well for 6 months or so until now. When I re-link the folders, it is putting them (on LHS of Library module – see screen shot at http://chrishowe.zenfolio.com/p773837375/e1b1845'7
) into another file system under a second “copy” of “Ark”. Even worse, I use annual & quarterly parent folders (see screenshot at http://chrishowe.zenfolio.com/p773837375/ebe93e9c
for folder/file structure) – my annual folder “Lightroom 2'1'”, after I put a dummy image into it, so it will import, has been placed in the first version of “Ark” on LHS of Library module, but the individual folders (such as “2'1'-'1-'7-snow”) have been put in the second version of “Ark” on LHS of Library module – and furthermore do not have the parent folder showing.
If I right click a folder on LHS and choose “update folder location” etc – it tells me there is already a folder of that name in that location (which I already know).
I could solve this by re-importing all the images ( I tried it with one folder, and it puts it in the right place), but I lose all my adjustments in the develop module – as it just comes up as “import” on LHS.
Has anyone any ideas about this?
