So now I want Lightroom to look for all the files on newest version of archive drive. I then put away that old archive hard drive and the backups of it into deep storage just in case. Relinking one year's worth isn't too bad once a year, but I recently retired that archive drive, after copying (and verifying) all the files on it- about 15 years worth of images. But then Lightroom doesn't know where they are, so I relink them. Once I have verified they copied correctly, I delete "originals" from working drive. Periodically, I take older files off that drive, and put them on a larger archive drive keeping same folder structure, but not same parent folder structure. Not sure what it is trying to do, so I say no.Īs to JSM's question- I keep all image files from current and past several years on one hard drive that gets backed up each night. The folders from old hard drive that do exist on new hard drive in a parent folder I tried this method- I chose the parent folder, so that all the images in each of the sub folders under it would be found in one step, but I then got this message: So unless I want to redo the whole hard drive from scratch. I don't like to move or copy folders/files using Mac OS, instead using my back up utility to copy over, then verify afterwards. When I go to Update Folder Location method discussed by figure 8, I see how to switch, but I can't do that as 1) I no longer have the original drive available, and 2), my file structure on new drive is slightly different in the sense that it has some folders loose within the new hard drive, and some under a parent folder. But, it is still not finding any other folders until I specifically find them, which is what I am trying to avoid doing one by one. I Control + Click, select Find Missing Folder to relink to files on new drive, and Lightroom finds all the files in that folder. Thanks for the responses- DJ I understand how you are looking on left side, under folders listed as being on previous hard drive- folders show a question mark.
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