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Photos in Catalog can't be found where they should be after relocating catalog

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larry8533

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My catalog has over 500k of photos.

I work in two locations, for several months at a time at each location.

When I change locations, I do the following:

  • I synchronize my entire Lightoom folder, containing database and catalog, to an external USB drive
  • I take the drive to my other location
  • I synchronize the external USB drive to the second location - the entire Lightroom folder, containing database and catalog.
  • The catalog from the external USB drive replaces the catalog at the second location
  • I then use this replaced catalog


I have been doing this successfully for some time.



HOWEVER, this procedure is not working anymore. All the photos in the catalog now point to the external USB drive, not to the local drive. I can reattach them manually, but it is a very long process.



If I rename my local drive to match the name of the external USB drive, could this solve the problem?

Is there another method of getting the catalog to look for photos on the local drive?



Thanks.
 
If I rename my local drive to match the name of the external USB drive, could this solve the problem?
Do you use some synchronisation utility to sync with the external drive? In that case, the links in the catalog should still point to the (original) internal drive. And if the internal drive of the second computer is named the same, then Lightroom should point to the same location on that drive after the second sync. A sync utility does not read the catalog and does not change anything in it.

If you do not use a separate utility, then how exactly do you ‘sync’ the catalog?

Is there another method of getting the catalog to look for photos on the local drive?
You do not talk about the images. Where are these and are these synced as well? If you store the images in a subfolder inside the catalog folder, then Lightroom will use ‘relative links’ to the images and disregard the drive name completely.
 
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