Lightroom and external drive (s)

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• Best practices for storage and backups on internal and external drives

  Hello

  I have a Mac laptop and I would like your advice on how to organize the storage of files on internal and external drives and how optimizes it the backup plan.

  From now on, my organization of file storage is:

  I keep my most important files on the internal disk of SSD encrypted and less critical files on an encrypted external drive (format ExFAT). This external hard drive was errors, so I bought a new Laetitia 2 Tb drive that I formatted in Mac OS journaled with encryption instead of ExFAT, to replace.

  For backups, I do not use Time Machine, but I use an application that synchronizes files between two disks. By using this application, I first sync the essential document on the SSD files internal to the external drive, and then I synchronize all the external drive to another external drive.

  My question is, if I keep this Organization of file storage or I should, for example just move all my files, critical and non-critical for the internal SSD (I could make enough room for that) and then backup up the whole Mac with Time Machine? Or there is a better way to organize files in this scenario?

  The second question is, if it is better to keep the Organization as it split storage (internal, less critical on external criticism) is what would be the best way to back up everything?

  Thanks in advance for all contributions.

  First of all, to the ExFAT is the problem, I suggest that the reader will just physically hurt.  ExFAT is perfectly acceptable as a format where Mac and PC can read/write.  You may have reacted a little leaving ExFAT for HFS, but you have made your choice and adapts to it.

  Here is how I operate my backups:

  I use CCC (CarbonCopyClone, $40, bombich.com).  It copies the boot sectors, drive, mapping, recovery Partition (these three are 'invisible' to DiskUtility for most) as well as system partitions and data records 'other'.  These other disks may be internal for clone-to-test-new-OSX in multi-disc systems or external for backup purposes.  The beauty is that you can start an external clone in a system crash, then CCC will be re - copy the active external clone on a new/fixed internal drive.

  Encryption isn't something I know, but... If only the content of the system partition and data is encrypted, it * could * be OK for clone-back to partition-as-encrypted partitions.  If you clone internal external the external partition is active and copy the 'encrypted plan', while small adjustments are made so that the race could be bad.  Copy of the files on my partitions unencrypted change interrupt because they are individual files.

  As an alternative, you could have a system drive that does CCC charge, let the clone encrypted and encrypted internal idle and just copy the entire map with the 'third system' active.

• Problem with Lightroom and external hard drive. Files and folders deleted.

  In the classroom (8.1 windows computers) import us images that .dng files on an external hard drive using Lightroom.

  After the Lightroom, insert us the memory card containing photos and attach an external hard drive. (formatted to ntfs)

  We create a new catalog on the external hard drive and then create a folder as the destination for the images on the external drive as well.

  After passing to the newly formed catalog in Lightroom, we import the photos from the memory card to the external hard drive.

  Photos are present in the folder 'import' on the external hard drive after the end of the import, so checking with windows Explorer.

  After the closure of LR and disconnect the external hard drive of the computer, it appears that the newly created files and imported files have disappeared.

  We tested with an external hard drive in exfat. The same problem.

  There is no problem when you copy directly in Explorer windows of memory card files to the external drive.

  The files are not hidden. Tested on mac and windows.

  If you said that the photo files are on the external hard drive when you checked using Windows Explorer during the class? Is this correct? YES
  Then you go home and the files are not on the external hard drive? YES

  Well, it is a mystery, but there is no way that Lightroom can be the culprit.

  Is it the same for the catalog file, in class, he was present on the hard disk according to the Windows Explorer, and when you get home, is no longer on the drive? YES

  Same conclusions, it is not Lightroom.

• NAS work with FCPX and external drives?

  I use a Mac Pro 2013, 3.7 Ghz Quad Core, 16 mHz Ram with 512 GB of internal storage, AMD over-pants D500. My employer also purchased a Synology DS415 + as my storage with 12 TB of HARD drive space.

  Now, I try to install FCPX and Motion 5 as my zero external because the machine has only 512 GB internal. But the problems lies in that the Synology's NAS still FCPX he sees not as my drive to zero. The NAS is connected to the network and I can access it via the NAS software but it does not appear on my desktop as an external drive even if I directly connected via USB 3.0 (A - A). I read on the website that if I connect it to the Mac via USB 3.0, it will appear as an external drive on my desk, but that does not happen. USB port on both units are USB - A (male?)

  And so my question: someone has their 2013 Pro Mac connected to a NAS for mounting on FCPX? And how do I set up mine to do what I hope? I searched the web HI & lo, nothing helped, and I have a feeling that I won't like the answer.

  Thank you in advance. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

  External drives no longer appear on the default desktop.

  Finder > Preferences, select the option to display on the desktop under the general tab.

  I do not know if that will solve your problem in FCP X, but it could explain why he is not on the desktop.

  I think that FCPX will be unhappy if you try to use a disk on the network, he really needs a fast connection, USB3 should work, but I think that ethernet can be slow because it is a shared environment.

• Internal and external drives hard. Vista and XP recognizes the limits? The partitions ok?

  Hello. I had a few questions. It focuses on internal and external HDD. I have Vista and XP. I read a bit of info I would like to shed some light on.

  I watched an external HARD disc. A Western Digital 2 to My Book Studio Edition II external HARD drive, USB 2.0 / FireWire 800 / eSATA. In the end what he says:

  The system configuration required

  • Available USB port, FireWire 800 or 400 port, port eSATA or eSATA adapter card
  • Mac OS X 10.5.2 10.4.10+, +.
  • Windows 2000/XP/Vista
    Note: the 4 TB version works with Windows® Vista only. Windows 2000/XP do not support hard drives with capacities above 2 TB.

  I guess it's true. So: If someone were to buy a 4 TB model: can you even plug the drive in Windows XP and then partition it in two? Or will it give errors or not be recognized?

  What about Windows 7? I guess it's more advanced than Vista. Obviously.

  I am looking for 3 Tb + internal and external HARD drive. I can not find them. I ' v looked on the websites Seagates and Western Digital, Future Shop and Best Buy, local stores, etc. Maybe I missed them. I think I can start to see well for the holiday season.

  Thank you.

  I don't think that there may be a problem with xp sp3. I don't know with vista sp2 and 7 should work for you.

  BIOS update is also important.

  High-Tech http://www.computerstar.ca/datarecovery.html

• Windows Media Player and external drives

  I agree with Carbonite for backups.  Carbonite recently told me that my external drive (g) was disconnected during the backup.  I bought a new drive (E :) and Carbonite restore files that were used to be on G: to E:.  It took two days.  Now Media player sees any of my music files.  Carbonite has been of no help saying that they are not familiar with Windows Media Player.  My OS is Windows 7.  What should I do?

  Hello

  If you say that your music files are now on a different drive, you will need to tell WMP to go pick them up.

  1. open WMP.

  2. go in:

  Organize-> manage-> music libraries

  You should now have an open box where you can manage locations WMP gathers his information. Of.

• Using a LAPTOP computer and external drives to implement infrastructure ESX4 & vsphere.

  Hi, people.

  Not been not not possible for me to acquire a robust and compatible to get by under ESX 4 Server (physical space at home, so many components niggle and not much more money to spend in), the only way that I would have to set up about 5/6 of the virtual machines in a field of messaging infrastructure running ESX4 in a portable high power (on the quad-core i3 / i5 or i7 processor) at least 6/8 Gb. RAM enough to satisfy my needs and requirements of the virtual computer.

  However, there is another parameter to be considered: external drives for execution of VMFS file systems, because modern systems (Sata, Pata, disks etc. interfaces) are not compatible for loading system; No virtual machine are taken care on them and, in case of, the performance will never good if each of them was running at the same time.

  The previous ideas must do some open and helpful (I'm sure they will) thoughts and advice:

  (1) has (or had) everyone feels with ESX4 in a processor of high power like the kind of I mentioned earlier? What has the vendor/model and material?

  (2) in the case of, how do you solve the question about to running 5 or 6 external drives for disc not computer usb virtual (AFAIK, ESX3 doesn´t support of USB drives)? NAS home (for example, LinkSys NAS200) is not enough to implement my desired purposes?

  (3) in my situation, the need of presentations good getting on ESX 4 and practice to get VCP certified, what has been your best idea in a hardware platform with space for?

  As usual, I'm very nice for your answers and advice.

  Andy.

  What you need to do is really not possible for a laptop - since it is a home network, I would look to get a whitebox - check-vm - Help.com or http://ultimatewhitebox.com/ sites dedicated to helping people like you looking for a box of cost effective to run reliable ESX -.

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• Lightroom 6 and external drive (NAS)

  Is the light room capable of handling his photos (facial recognition and organization) on a WD My Cloud Storage device or all media to be on my computer windows laptop?

  Thank you

  Photos can be on any drive connected, internal or external, or network. As much as I know, pictures cannot be in the cloud.

  Your Lightroom Catalog must be either an internal drive or external (not a network drive).

• Lightroom and external HD

  I have Adobe Photoshop elements 11, first items 11, Lightroom 4, an external hard drive and a MacBook Pro, but I don't know where to start.

  1. I wonder especially if I have to download the software on my computer and put my photos on the external hard drive (I thought it would be better to put my pictures on the external hard drive, as to save memory of my computer, but do not know if the software will be able to access photos here)?  What is the best Setup?

  2. If the software on the computer can 'find' pictures on the external hard drive, essentailly photos are saved on my computer when I edit them with the software?  If so, it wouldn't slow down my computer (or is there a way to get around this)?

  3. these programs (e.g. Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom) work together?  If so, how we configure them to do so and to use them in this way?

  Thank you!

  1. I wonder especially if I have to download the software on my computer and put my photos on the external hard drive (I thought it would be better to put my pictures on the external hard drive, as to save memory of my computer, but do not know if the software will be able to access photos here)?  What is the best Setup?

  Programs should go on the internal hard disk, Lightroom catalog should go on the internal hard disk, photos can go on the external or internal, as you prefer. Lightroom has no problems to access photos on your HD Putting of external programs and other stuff on your drive hard internal does not use your computer's memory, it uses the hard disk space that is different.

  2. If the software on the computer can 'find' pictures on the external hard drive, essentailly photos are saved on my computer when I edit them with the software?  If so, it wouldn't slow down my computer (or is there a way to get around this)?

  Lightroom or PSE moves photos (unless you tell the program to do it). Photos on your external hard drive can stay on your external hard drive (unless you tell Lightroom to move them elsewhere). Changing them does not mean that they are now on your internal HD (by the way, putting stuff on your drive hard internal does NOT slow down your computer, until you get to the point where he very little empty space left on the internal hard drive)

  3. these programs (e.g. Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom) work together?  If so, how we configure them to do so and to use them in this way?

  PSE and Lightroom will work together, see http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80035

• Best editing for Adobe Premiere Pro using laptop and external drive

  I'll confess that I'm not a particularly technical person. But I am learning!

  So I want to ask a simple question and hopefully get some good advice.

  I'm editing a feature-length documentary on Adobe Premiere Pro. I have a lot of HD footage, and I want to optimize my drives to optimize performance. To that end, I recently bought a StudioRAID 4 to glyph.

  I currently work for a Mac Book Pro. I use Mac OS 10.9.5.

  Processor: 2.66 Ghz Interl Core i7

  Memory: 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 (2 GB 2 benches)

  I searched a bit on how to better implement my discs, getting some useful infor here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972 and here: https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/optimizing-hard-disks

  But there is a little too much information - and I'm getting lost. Use a 2 disk configuration tips? Or should I partition my drive of new glyph and use the 3 disc mounting configuration.

  I'd appreciate certainly all of the tips!

  Thank you

  Rebecca

  partition the disks will not help and will not change readership by this ranking. better performance would use raid-0 on the StudioRaid of glyph and 2 disk configuration in the table. Make sure that there is a backup of the raid, in case something happens.

  also 4 GB of ram is dangerously low, you can upgrade to 16 gb.

• How to move the catalog to new pc and external drive?

  I have

  Hello

  Please see export a catalog | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC tutorials

  Hope that helps!

  Kind regards

  Sheena

• Documents on the hard drive and USB drives are automatically sent to the trash

  Why are some of my documents (files) on my hard drive and external drive is sent to the trash without my consent.  Is there a virus in my Mac the cause? If so, how to solve this problem?  Only selective files are sent to the trash for deletion after a reboot.  It seems that my computer has been taken to target.

  Mac Book Pro (to 2011)

  OS X EL Capitan to. 10.11.3

  8 GB memory

  Thank you

  DJE B

  How many times do you get? What are the documents?

• 2014 MBP crashes when the external drive connected

  • MBP 2014 15 "El Capitan running.
  • Connected crush 3 TB Seagate GoFlex Desktop drive.
  • When I connect, drive starts, is recognized by Finder but the system locks and then hangs and then almost immediately.
  • Was OK until I tried to transfer a large file of MPB to drive recently, but now accidents as described above on each connection attempt.
  • (From startup using CMD - R) disk utility reports the MBP and external drive are good.
  • I have the system event log recent accident this morning if it helps (if need to tips on what part of the content to send).

  Thank you!

  These must be run as administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

  Run the Console application in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  In the Console window, select

  DIAGNOSIS AND diagnostic USE information reports ▹ System

  (not diagnose them and use Messages) in the list of logs on the left. If you don't see this list, select

  List of newspapers seen ▹ display

  in the menu bar.

  There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points downwards. You will see a list of reports. A report of panic has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends with ".panic." Select the most recent. The content of the report is displayed at right. Allows you to copy and paste to validate all of the content, text, not a screenshot.

  If you don't see any report, but you know, there was a panic, you have chosen diagnostic and using the list of Log Messages. INFORMATION on the USE of DIAGNOSTIC AND choose instead.

  In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you change the UUID ' anonymous, ' a long string of letters, numbers and dashes in the header of the report, if it is present (it cannot be). "

  Please do not post other types of diagnostic report.

  I know that the report is long, perhaps several hundred lines. Please report all this anyway.

  When you post the report, an error message may appear on the web page: "you have included content in your post that is not allowed", or "the message contains invalid characters." It's a bug in the forum software. Thanks for posting the text on Pastebin, then post here a link to the page you created.

  If you have an account on Pastebin, please do not select private in exposure menu to paste on the page, because no one else that you will be able to see it.

• Help... I have Adobe cc with Lightroom installed on my macbook and iMac and photos on an external drive... but

  I edited several photos with lightroom and this external hard drive via my macbook pro. When I unplug my external drive and connect to my iMac and import a folder (no copy and move), none of my edits are here! or the sides. I can see all the photos of perfectly fine, but how do I get my cc in lightroom on my iMac to see my photos as they have been published on my instance mackook of cc in lightroom? They are certainly on the drive? I don't want to put this folder of images into space cloud that I have not the download speed or space provided. Any help appreciated.

  The changes are saved in the catalog, not for pictures.

  So to see the changes on both computers, you will need to keep the file containing the LR catalog and previews on the external hard drive.

  Use the Finder to copy this folder since the Macbook pro hard disk external. It is usually located inside the images folder or similar.

  Now make sure you always open the catalog from the external drive. To avoid confusion you can rename the catalog if you like, you then have to rename the folder seen accordingly. Make sure you do it with closed Lightroom. You can launch LR by double-clicking the file catalog.

• Recovery of DNG issue: I have photos stored on an external hard drive which have previously been imported into Lightroom and converted to DNG.  The laptop on which I was running Lightroom died and I had to replace the hard drive and rebuild the

  Recovery of DNG issue: I have photos stored on an external hard drive which have previously been imported into Lightroom and converted to DNG.  The laptop on which I was running Lightroom died and I had to replace the hard drive and rebuild the computer.  In the process of my Lightroom program and catalog related to these images have been lost.  When I re-associate these photos with my new installation of Lightroom and a new catalogue is there a way to retrieve the keywords or other changes or metadata catalogue Mountaga?  Is any of this information embedded with the imge DNG file or was it only in the cataloght lost on my failing hard drive? I re-import just as if it were new images with no prior treatment of Lightroom?

  By default, LR saves all changes in the catalog, and that applies to any type of file.

  Optionally, you can save changes to the file as well, for raw files owners, this will create a xmp file - for DNG that changes are going to be cooked in the file, without additional xmp file.

  But it does not default. Go to the catalog and parameters under the control of metadata automatically save changes to XMP.

  Unless you do this, the changes are saved only in the catalog.

  Hope this makes things clearer.