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Restore from ext. hard drive not working

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Dunkinidaho

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Rebuilding pictures and catalog post mother board failure. Found a viable catalog and images on an EHD. I want to use the internal drives so I backed up to the internal C drive. Removed the EHD and restarted LR. It doesn't start with the catalog I backed up to. It seems the only way LR will load the catalog I want is to connect the EHD. I don't want to use it. I've gone through this process so many times that now I have 8 different catalogues to choose from. This is a mess.
 
Good to see progress.... I suggest that you create a fresh post for any subsequent queries as I sense this has reached a reasonable conclusion.
 
I agree, see you later down the forum Gnits

Brian
 
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