I don't know what drive letter Lightroom expects (although I suppose I could guess). However, what you're suggesting could well bugger things up for other programs, which are not expecting the drive letters to change. In addition, I don't see how that would stop Lightroom from making the same mistake again if I plug in another usb drive. The correct approach is to fix it in Lightroom.
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of P. J. Alling > Sent: 13 May 2007 15:37 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Chaniging the Lightroom backup location > > I don't know how to change the drive in Lightroom but assuming that > you're using Microsoft WinXP you can semi-permanently assign a drive > letter to your backup drive through the Computer Management > Panel. Open > that application, (sorry I don't remember where XP has it > hidden, select > Storage->Disk Management from the Tree. It will take a bit of time > refreshing the display depending on your machines speed. Select the > device you normally store to and right click on it. Select "Change > Drive Letter and Path" from the drop down menu. Edit that to be the > drive letter expected by Lightroom. Save and close everything. Next > time you plug n a jump drive Windows should avoid assigning > that drive > letter to the jump drive. > > Bob W wrote: > > Hi, > > > > last week I started Lightroom when its automatic backup was due, and > > let it run. It so happened that I had a USB stick in the > computer, and > > it used that to store the backup rather than the normal > drive which is > > always attached to the PC. I noticed this when the backup had > > finished. > > > > Today it wants to backup again, but fails because it can't find > > somewhere to store the backups. I assume it is looking for the USB > > drive, not the normal drive. So I'd like to reset it somehow to look > > for the normal drive which I keep attached. Unfortunately there > > doesn't seem to be an option for this in the menus. > > > > Anybody have any clues as to how to change the backup drive? > > > > tia, > > Bob > > > > > > > > > -- > Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the > sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt > nslpn raq liot. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
