Link Light Room up with Back Up File copies

[Little Louie]

Feel free to laugh after you read this….
Currently have older XP desktop connected to 3 external hard drives to manage our photos and one of the drives failed.
• Drive 1 - Lightroom software on it
• Drive 2 – Working copies of photos storied here
• Drive 3 – Back up copies of photos storied here

Drive 2 failed.

How do I link the back up copies of my photos on drive 3 to Lightroom?

Thanks.

 

[b_gossweiler]

Louie,

In the Folder Panel, right click on a (top level) folder and chose Update Folder Location ..., then navigate to your Drive 3 and reconnect.

Be happy that you're one of the posters here with failing drives having backups

 

[Little Louie]

Thanks for your help.
Will try it out shortly.
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[Denis Pagé]

Or, as you are on Windows, just change the drive's letter if the folder structure is the same as it was on the failed drive.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

And please tell me that you're going to replace drive 2 quickly, otherwise you're down to only one copy of the files...