Creating catalog on external hard drive

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• How to copy a catalog of external hard drive to the hard drive of the computer to use smart insights not connected to the external hard drive?

  I am very new to LR5. I put LR5 in place so that my catalog and photos are on an external hard drive. I discovered that when not connected to the hard drive, LR5 can't find my catalog, therefore, I can't do any editing in intelligent insights, unless it is connected to an external hard drive. How can I fix this so that I can edit photos without being connected to an external hard drive. Is it possible to copy the catalog out of the hard disk on the computer's hard drive or I have to re-establish a new catalog using LR5? Must the catalog always be loaded onto the hard drive? Thank you in advance.

  Yes that's correct. The LR catalog must be on the computer's internal drive. Then when you have smart previews activated you can change the image without going through the reader that they are connected. When you connect this drive images will be updated.

  Simply COPY these 4 folders on your internal drive in a folder called Lightroom catalog that you create. Then open LR and go on the file menu point and select open catalog. Navigate to the folder you created called catalog in Lightroom and select the Lightroom Catalog.lrcat 5 file and click Open. Once restart Lightroom open change preferences, > preferences, and under the general tab, in the catalog default section make sure that "when starting to use this catalogue:" listings in the area where you copied the files. Something like Macintosh HD/Wherever, have created it this folder/that folder name/Lightroom catalog.lrcat 5.

• Mobile LR catalog for external hard drive

  I'm new and in the process of learning LR.  Currently, all my photos are stored and developed in my laptop, but it becomes too much for her hard drive.  I am thinkinng to move all of the LR catalog to an external hard drive.  Could someone please give me some advice how to proceed safely and also how to point LR to its new location, when I open the icon.

  Thank you very much.

  I am pleased to announce that the project has been successfully completed. Thanks to the advice of everyone. That's what I did:

  Some new pictures, asking them to be stored in a subfolder created in the new external hard drive G: has imported. This issue, namely "My LR Photos", is intended to store all my photos in LR in the future. I thought that this will force the G: drive is displayed on the Panel in my LR records. He did.

  Then, in the LR on the Control Panel folder, I moved each subfolder of C: drive for the new folder photo in G:. All photos moved smoothly with their predetermined data intact. None should be reconnected to the original sound.

  I relaunch LR several times to make sure it works and you have no problem at all. It seems to work faster now too.

  I want to thank all three of you for taking interest to share your knowledge and help me to do this without pain.  Best regards.

  Special note to JimHess: I really appreciate your conversation with dj_paige help air cake2 with his problem on another thread. I had a almost the same problem with my LR and worked it out well based on your and dj to air cake2 information.

• How can I manage the same catalog on external hard drive on two different PCs

  Hello to everyone.

  I would lik to see whether there is a possibility to manage the same catalog on two different workstations. For example, I make a few adjustments in the morning on my pc 1 ad, and then later I close the office but I need to continue to work on the same files on pc 2 without starting all over. Then I make other adjustments to other files that I end the next day on 1 pc.

  Anyone please help?

  Thank you!

  Anna

  Hi Anna,.

  You can store the catalog Lightroom and original images on an external hard drive, and connect the player to the computer on which you want to change.

  Refer to this tutorial to find out how to transfer your catalog on disk: Lightroom training: How do I move Photos or a catalogue on an external drive - YouTube

  Kind regards

  Claes

• How backup complete photos and catalog on external hard drive?

  I want to backup my entire LR library on an external drive for security. I want the backup to include photos as well as all the metadata of. I can't do it, and I can't find a similar question and answer on the forum. I am able to 'Export' pictures on my external hard drive, but the metadata file that gets exported is unreadable.

  Please advise me how to do this simple and necessary procedure. Thanks in advance.

  Two steps to be completed-

  1. When you close the Lightroom program you should let make a backup of the CATALOG . OFTEN!

  This is defined in the catalog preferences [Ctrl + Alt +] [Ctrl/Cmd + Alt + comma]

  

  The catalog stores everything you do in the Lightroom program! including metadata.

  AND save backups of the catalog to another physical disk (NOT in the same folder as the Lightroom program!)

  2. your original images must be 'Backed-up' or copied to a second location on a different physical drive your chosen method (and not by Lightroom)

  Mac users can use {Time Machine}, PC users can use {SyncBack, Free File Sync, etc.)

  * It is usually not necessary to 'Export' all images unless you have a specific purpose - for example to post on Facebook, Pinterest, web page, printer, etc..

  There is no object in the export of images from archive on your computer, if Lightroom has a catalogue of work!

  

• Files with names like 0241c7014675aa945ec7ba being created on external hard drive

  Folders with these names - automaticaaly 0241c7014675aa945ec7ba - are created in my external hard drive.  What is it?  Are they safe?

  Hello

  I suggest you try the external hard drive for virus scanning.

  You can also try online virus scan, check this link:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  It will be useful.

• Lightroom does not recognize the external hard drive?

  When I try to import files from anywhere - my office, or a SD - card in Lightroom 4 or now 6 (updated just to see if it would help), Lightroom is the photo file in what I would call an external hard drive of ghost. It creates a second external hard drive file that seems to be a copy of the original. A few weeks ago, the name of external hard drives has been accidentally changed or partially erased when I backup my hard drive without supervision in Time Machine. I'm working on an iMac with OS 10.11.4. At that time there Lightroom could not find any of my files of course! So, I renamed with much attention the hard drive exactly the same original name and Lightroom everything very well - recognized except, I started having this problem of import. When I import a file of the photo, he put it in an external hard drive of Ghost with the same name, size and number of files. If I try to move the file to the real external hard drive where it is supposed to go, Lightroom told me that the file already exists in Lightroom. If I look in my external drive outside of Lightroom, the file is where it is supposed to be. I tried just 'Add' the file to Lightroom, rather than copy or move, and that's okay. I tried to re-pointing Lightroom on your drive. Does not work. The only way I can get the files to go where I want they is to import, then highlight the recently imported file and move it to the folder of the mother. So, I have to move the file into the folder of the mother in the subfolder and then delete the now empty ghost the disk folder manually hard phantom. Help! Is there a way to merge the external hard drive with his ghost (or duplicate)? I can't find anything in the forums or documentation, and when I tried to call tech support, I came across a brick wall which is very frustrating. They said I couldn't get help by phone, I have to use the forums. So, please, let me know what I can try.

  Hello Deborah

  Seems to me this is probably a problem of conflict with the readers in your catalog and LR is confusing where to put images and creates a clone instead. You have to work smart to get rid of the clone disk keeping the images with the same folder structure. If it's a long process, however, I'll try to be as simple as I could.

  To do a test at White folder on the drive itself out of Lightroom that must be maintained at the same place where the main images folder (main folder means - the very first folder under your player in your catalogue which should include all subfolders on the disc itself), then put a picture in the test folder and import it. the test folder will be part of the new drive of clone in catalog you would then move the main folder of the Original disc to the Clone drive in your catalog. Once you are done with the displacement of all the structures of folders in the test under drive clone folder. The original drive that was not identified by Lightroom would be gone if this isn't the case you can remove it manually and this is how you would leave with single drive with all your files/images existing and if you try to import the images now. They would go directly in the same destination folder that you choose on the screen to import instead of going in any drive clone/ghost.

  Thanks Deborah for bringing This issue to our view. And I amso glad I was able to solve this problem for you on call.

• Back to the top: the files are not backed up on external hard drive

  When I back up my hard drive to Windows Vista, the backup (which should include my documents) works about 30 seconds and it didn't save the file created on my external hard drive of diving. The hard drive is a Seagate 160 GB with about 90 GB of available disk space. I have my using the Windows Vista program upward.

  Thanks for the help.

  Hello

  ·        Have you tried the same files and backup folder in one different location (another drive or media)?

  You can check if there are errors listed in Event Viewer related to backup is not made. To open Event Viewer, follow the link below.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/open-Event-Viewer

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-information-appears-in-event-logs-Event-Viewer

  You can also try to disable the security software and then try to run the backup utility and check if that helps.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/disable-antivirus-software

  Note: Antivirus software can help protect your computer against viruses and other security threats. In most cases, you should not disable your antivirus software. If you do not disable temporarily to install other software, you must reactivate as soon as you are finished. If you are connected to the Internet or a network during the time that your antivirus software is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to attacks.

  Hope this information is useful.

  Amrita M

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• HARD drive dead, retrieve files from external hard drive

  Hi all, my HARD drive is dead, I installed a new. I have a complete copy of my system to an external drive, including my o/s, it was created using Vista upward.
  I cannot now access these files or the o/s.
  How can I use to load all my data on my new HARD drive?

  Hello stan49,

  ·         What type of backup that you created on your external hard drive?

  ·         What happens when you try to restore the data on your computer?

  If you used the Windows backup utility to create a backup on your computer, you can check the link that will give you information about how to restore from a backup below:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/restore-files-from-a-backup

  Thank you
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• Copy the library from an external hard drive to another catalog EHD and sync

  Already, I saw this link but it doesn't tell me how to copy the library, it simply moving photos from one hard drive to another How to copy files to an external hard drive in Lightroom "Julieanne Kost's Blog of »

  I want to know how can I make a second copy of my library on my second drive, backup in case where my only main falls down and I want it so that my catalog can be synchronized with my second backup drive.

  Any ideas?

  The easy answer is to-

  1. close Lightroom

  2 use the software to 'mirror' of your Master images folder and subfolders of the primary transmission to the second DHM operation.

  Some free Windows software-SyncBack, MS-Synctoy, FreeFileSync.

  * If your Lightroom catalog file exists in the records of Master images, it will appear in the "mirror".

  * You can exclude the... Previews.lrdata folder of EHD. (it can be huge, and it can be re-built)

  * Note: "block mirror" made an exact copy of the files, it adds new files and removes the file 'deleted' SMT. It should not be used as a backup of the system-Deleted files are also deleted from the "mirror".

  * Note: You must not access the EHD copy using the catalogue work Lightroom on the main drive - this will only create chaos.

  3. If you want to restore from a system crash JEP 'mirror' will catalogue and image files in the exact state at the time of the last "mirror." Copy everything back to the main unit and open the catalog. LRCAT file. Lightroom is back in business.

• Share a lightroom catalog - Does the catalog and images on external hard drive work?

  I manage a small part of the flow of images overall of the client by updating their prescence web basis with new works and relabelling/download earlier works. I believe that this requires the catalogue and the library of images that will be hosted on an external hard drive that can travel between us two. We work both on PC with LR 5.3.

  The workflow should look like this:

  Customer uploads new images on external hard drive and import LR

  'ClientCatalog' is created

  Flags of pickaxes and creates a Collection of those Picks

  Hard disk is handed to me when I opened "ClientCatalog".

  Make changes suggested in pictures

  Add detailed tags and metadata

  Download on various media sites, social and Web sites

  return the drive to the customer

  Is there a potential problem with this workflow? My assumption is that if everything is housed on the external hard drive, so there is no worries for the catalog with all updates. Can someone find out about potential problems, that I might have forgotten? Are there of "security protocols" you would add in to this workflow (not to mention that everythign on another hard disk mirroring) which would you suggest?

  Photwell wrote:

  I came across this problem with my own catalog a few weeks ago. I plugged my external hard drive into a different USB port and everything was gone.

  Not gone, just addressed. It can be re-addressed as required. I think that's enough on MacOs, to name the drive. Under Windows, the details vary depending on the version of the OS (Google for instructions), but it's for Win7:

  http://pcsupport.about.com/od/Windows7/HT/change-drive-letters-Windows-7.htm

  and it's a good idea to assign a drive letter quite a bit more later in the alphabet, to restrict the possibility of ever finding this already taken letter. For example, it might be X: to HDD external , or P: for Plug in car, or anything that makes sense to you...

  After having done this, the re-start of Lightroom and open the catalog, images will be at the first go in offline mode (previously used location not found). To get online, it will be necessary to re - browse the folder parent for all your image files, to reflect its new location under the new reference in car. That done, the location information of catalog for all images and subfolders located under this parent folder, automatically updated. If that parent does not appear in the list of records of LR, you right-click and choose "show Parent". Display LR then reorganizes to reflect this real hierarchy.

  Best regards, PR

• Catalog on moose, updated DNG on local and external hard drive. Why?

  I am running OS 10.5, I installed Lightroom, connected my external hard drive and began importing older images I can get everything organized.  I created the catalog on the external hard drive with images.  Suddenly, I noticed my local filling in car and then found in the Directory/Users/username/Pictures a complete directory of 2005 and 2006 the DNGs being created by lightroom, why aren't these saved on my external hard drive?

  When importing (and import with conversion to DNG) double check where will be stored in the dialog box import your files.

  

  Click CHOOSE it... button to change the target location.

• Creating the new folder to external hard drive

  I've searched the forums and found many discussions on this, but I'm in a quandary.  I have an external hard drive Seagate 4 TB with about 2 TB of data backed up to it.  I was obviously saving data on this external drive without any problems.

  Today, I tried to move my MacBookPro some data on the external drive and was unable to create a folder.  Reading the forums, I checked my permissions and it shows now that I have "Read only" permissions  In addition, it displays the disk formatted in NTFS.

  How is that possible?  Everything was going well, 8 weeks ago.  How can I fix?

  Reformat the drive for use on a Mac, NTFS for Windows machines, the drive to Mac OS extended (journaled) format

• How do I create Mountain Lion bootable external hard drive

  How to create a disk external drive bootable in Mountain Lion and then retrieve a Time Machine backup external of Cougar on this Cougar bootable external hard drive, while maintaining the operating system of my computer and files intact.

  Forget why I do this, I tried to enter a question in the reasons previous and which led to a lot of confusion as to why I need to do this and why not try something else instead. That's what I do, please just answer how this and only this.

  Thank you!!

  If you need the Setup disk, it's here

  http://www.Apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/OS-x-mountain-lion

  When you start with the Setup disk, choose to install it on your outside.

  Mountain lion to install it on the HARD drive. TM backup on the same drive recovery

  OS X Lion mountain: restore your entire system

• Hello. I created a folder music on my external hard drive connected to my asus router.  I can now access the music through my media library.  How can I change the folder when I make new purchases to iTunes easily without doing it one by one

  I created a folder music on an external hard drive connected to my asus router.  I copied my music from my iTunes library in this folder access and can now my kodi media network.  How I updated the folder when I do new iTunes purchase without having to do it one by one thanks

  You can use a backup tool that updates only modified files.  You don't say what kind of computer you use.

  ITunes is actively using media on the external hard drive so you can replace it. Simply copy the media to one other player does not have iTunes it use it.  iTunes is probably still using media to your internal drive.