Quoting Eric Featherstone <eric.featherst...@gmail.com>:
I believe there's a rather simpler solution. Your lightroom catalogue
has stored within it the location each photo and these of course all
point to a drive called "Lightroom 1". If your thrid drive reeally is
an identical copy of "Lightroom 1" then name it identically too (i.e.
Lightroom 1), then start Lightroom and it will all just work.
That was my first thought as well but not being a Lightroom user I
wasn't sure if there was something in the database structure that
wouldn't allow it to work.
In my Studioline image management system I did precisely that when I
needed to create a separate backup of the database. Is there any
reason why it wouldn't work with Lightroom?
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
David's method perfectly valid but is just a little more involved,
needing to relocate the files from within Lightroom. I don't have
Lightroom here in front of me but from memory you would right click
(or maybe apple or option click on a mac?) on the topmost folder level
in the left hand pane and choose "locate", then browse to your
Lightroom 2 disk in the dialogue that comes up.
Eric.
On 11 July 2012 09:22, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote:
I'm not sure how to "simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2". I
just tried to figure it out, but I'm lost. The only option I see is
to reimport each folder on Lightroom 2 drive into the catalogue,
but I'd still have the original "missing file" and I'd have to
rerender the photo. Each individual folder of photos on Lightroom
2 does not appear in the Folders panel on the left hand side of the
Library module. It does for Lightroom 1, which was the drive the
catalogue was linked to. Is this the problem?
Sorry, Dave, for not understanding your directions, but I do
appreciate your help, It's late. I think I'll try this again in
the morning, but I don't feel confident I'll have better luck.
Cheers, Christine
On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:47 AM, David Parsons wrote:
Do not delete the catalog or the images in the catalog. That will
erase any keywording and image editing that you may have done.
If the backup (Lightroom 2) has the identical files that Lightroom 1
had, then simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2, and make Lightroom
3 a new backup (I would seriously think about using a different naming
scheme).
If Lightroom 2 has the same files, but they aren't in the same folder
structure, then it will be more tedious to link the files (but
infinitely more preferable to re-importing and re-doing all your
previous work).
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Christine Aguila
<christ...@caguila.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone:
I'm seeking advice. Here's the situation:
1) I've been using 2 external drives for my photos. I have
called these drives Lightroom 1 (main one which has been linked
to a catalogue of 8,000 plus photos) and Lightroom 2 (back up).
Well, Lightroom 1 stopped responding. It's been replaced, and I
have named the replacement external drive Lightroom 3.
2) Now, all the photos in my catalogue of 8,000 plus photos are
identified in Lightroom as "missing." As Lightroom users know,
this is because Lightroom can't find the external drive Lightroom
1 (the drive that died).
So, my question is, what would our experienced Lightroom users do
in this situation? Would you
a) delete all images in the catalogue and reimport from Lightroom
2 (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)?
OR
b) delete the catalogue itself, create a new catalogue, then
import photos from Lightroom 2 (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)?
OR
c) something different?
Also, lately I've been thinking of going through all my photos
and really weed out the junk, so I thought that since I have to
deal with this photo management mess, I'd also do some weeding at
the same time.
Cheers, Christine
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