Crazy Legs
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- Jul 6, 2011
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- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
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Greetings all!My first time on here and I have a problem! Apologies for that but I'm sure I'm not the first. To set the scene - I have been using Lightroom for a few years but I'm far from an expert. I run it on an iMac with a 1TB drive, I shoot in Raw and have 30 - 40,000 images. I have my folders set up with the top folder being the year and then all the shoots for that year being listed by date eg '110101 New Years Day'. So when collapsed my folders are 2008, 2009, 2010 etc. The original raw files are in folders of the same name within a year folder within the Pictures folder.My internal drive is near to being full so I decided to copy my 'Pictures' folder to three 2TB external drives - one working drive and two back-ups. I did this over the past two days and this morning completed the task. I checked that all of my original raw files are now on three external drives and deleted the contents of the Pictures folder on my iMac. I then went into Lightroom and as expected there were question marks next to all of my folders. I chose one folder with only a few images in it and followed the 'find missing folder' route. I directed it to my external drive and chose a folder/file. At this point something happened (not sure what exactly) I think I saw the image as a thumbnail in LR but then noticed that the entire folder was missing from my folder list on the lefthand side. I tried something similar with another folder and although the folder did not disappear from the folder list and was no longer greyed out it showed that there were no images in it.I then had to leave home and come to work (feeling very worried!). Up to this point I have been very happy with managing my files and folders but I am confused as to what to do now or what I have done wrong. What do I need to do to be able to use the folders which are now on the external drives? I know that the thumbnails are still in LR3 but to work on them or export them they need to be able to link up to the original raws.Anyone with any advice? I am somewhat slow when it comes to computer matters so nice and simple would be appreciated.Thanks in anticipationAndy