- Lightroom Version Number
- LR v5.5
- Operating System
- macOS 12 Monterey
I use Lightroom (the Cloud version not Classic). I want to change the drive that LR saves the originals to from the static drive attached to my Mac to a traveling WD 5TB drive. I don’t want to take the existing originals with me, but merely save the new originals of photos which I take whilst traveling to the traveling drive. Then, when I return, I redefine the static drive as the repository and the new originals are saved to it. This used to work. However a few months ago there seems to have been a change in LR. It attempts to save all originals to the traveling drive. Then it makes an almighty mess of everything because it is trying to sync all the old photos again, without having originals. It took weeks to unpick the mess I made last time. Now I try it again and it wants to do the same. My question: how do I redefine the originals folder without having any of the existing originals saved to it?