Peter Fishley
New Member
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2017
- Messages
- 6
- Lightroom Experience
- Beginner
- Lightroom Version
Operating System:IMAC - macOS Hight Sierra
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):Lightroom Classic Version 7.2 on my IMAC
Relatively new to Lightroom (12 Months) and am enjoying BUT-
Purchased an external hard drive that I keep plugged in and running all the time .
Tkat the SD card out of my camera and put in card reader on my computer and transfer the photos directly into my hard drive as follows-
on my external hard drive I have a single folder called Lightroom Photos
Inside that folder I created more single folders - Events / Holidays/ Misc Shoots / Family
So for example my UK Trip 2017 ( about 400 photos ) went into a new folder called UK trip 2017 in a new folder within the Holidays folder .
Then opened Lightroom and on the left hand dide imported the 400 photos of my UK trip - edited them and closed Lightroom and when i Checked the UK trip 2017 folder on my external hard drive ( a G DRIVE ) i noticed that at the botton of the 400 photos there was a new folder created called UK trip 2017 ie Lightroom now seems to have created a new folder which is basically a repeat of my original folder & being a bit eager to have things cleaned up I transferred the new folder to trash and then deleted them.
When I opened lightroon again I was met with an unpleasent surpise with my 400 photos that i had edited and was very proud off - THE FILE CANNOT BE FOUND . It appears to me that Lightroom had linked the edits I made to the new Folder that it had created.
This has happened twice in the last two weeks and its frustrating and I must sole the problem before I start editing photos again.
It seems to me that I have set something up incorrectly on the Left Hand Side of Lightroom under File Handling .
Any suggestions or a link to help me set up above to solve the problem.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Peter Fishley
PS Have followed The Scott Kelby Lightroom CC book for digital photographers & followed its suggestion on using an external hard drive .
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):Lightroom Classic Version 7.2 on my IMAC
Relatively new to Lightroom (12 Months) and am enjoying BUT-
Purchased an external hard drive that I keep plugged in and running all the time .
Tkat the SD card out of my camera and put in card reader on my computer and transfer the photos directly into my hard drive as follows-
on my external hard drive I have a single folder called Lightroom Photos
Inside that folder I created more single folders - Events / Holidays/ Misc Shoots / Family
So for example my UK Trip 2017 ( about 400 photos ) went into a new folder called UK trip 2017 in a new folder within the Holidays folder .
Then opened Lightroom and on the left hand dide imported the 400 photos of my UK trip - edited them and closed Lightroom and when i Checked the UK trip 2017 folder on my external hard drive ( a G DRIVE ) i noticed that at the botton of the 400 photos there was a new folder created called UK trip 2017 ie Lightroom now seems to have created a new folder which is basically a repeat of my original folder & being a bit eager to have things cleaned up I transferred the new folder to trash and then deleted them.
When I opened lightroon again I was met with an unpleasent surpise with my 400 photos that i had edited and was very proud off - THE FILE CANNOT BE FOUND . It appears to me that Lightroom had linked the edits I made to the new Folder that it had created.
This has happened twice in the last two weeks and its frustrating and I must sole the problem before I start editing photos again.
It seems to me that I have set something up incorrectly on the Left Hand Side of Lightroom under File Handling .
Any suggestions or a link to help me set up above to solve the problem.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Peter Fishley
PS Have followed The Scott Kelby Lightroom CC book for digital photographers & followed its suggestion on using an external hard drive .