- Joined
- Apr 4, 2019
- Messages
- 20
- Lightroom Version Number
- 10.2
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Longish story.
C drive is a small SSD and doesn't have enough space to hold all my photos. They are all on another internal spinning disk drive labelled "Z". The location is Z/My Pictures and all he LRC files are on the same Z drive located at Z/My Pictures/Lightroom. That Lightroom folder holds all relevant sub folders like catalogues, backups, LR settings, LR helper data etc. The LrC app was located on the SSD C drive. Been this way for ages. All was well.
Then I had an issue with the C drive and as a result that drive was formatted. Unfortunately the repair shop decided to change the drive letter of the spinning disk from Z to "D". So there were two tasks for me to complete.
1. I reassigned D to Z in line with what LrC was used to seeing before the formatting and, of course it was pointed to the working catalogue which was on Z . In the process all my photos duly appeared in the Z/My Pictures folder. All good
2. Re-install LrC which I have done on the SSD "C" drive.
When I click on my catalogue file to kick LrC into action. LrC is seeing the correct folder structure. There are no query marks. It's asking me to import every file in every folder using the "Add" option - 25,000 images. I didn't expect that. I expected all the files and folders to appear automatically. I can look at images in each folder. All the images show the "edited" badge where editing did occur.
Any way I can avoid importing everything
C drive is a small SSD and doesn't have enough space to hold all my photos. They are all on another internal spinning disk drive labelled "Z". The location is Z/My Pictures and all he LRC files are on the same Z drive located at Z/My Pictures/Lightroom. That Lightroom folder holds all relevant sub folders like catalogues, backups, LR settings, LR helper data etc. The LrC app was located on the SSD C drive. Been this way for ages. All was well.
Then I had an issue with the C drive and as a result that drive was formatted. Unfortunately the repair shop decided to change the drive letter of the spinning disk from Z to "D". So there were two tasks for me to complete.
1. I reassigned D to Z in line with what LrC was used to seeing before the formatting and, of course it was pointed to the working catalogue which was on Z . In the process all my photos duly appeared in the Z/My Pictures folder. All good
2. Re-install LrC which I have done on the SSD "C" drive.
When I click on my catalogue file to kick LrC into action. LrC is seeing the correct folder structure. There are no query marks. It's asking me to import every file in every folder using the "Add" option - 25,000 images. I didn't expect that. I expected all the files and folders to appear automatically. I can look at images in each folder. All the images show the "edited" badge where editing did occur.
Any way I can avoid importing everything