Lightroom - Initial Drive Setup (work out of an external HARD drive)

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• How can I change lightroom 5 previews smart on the book of mac pro (mbp) when lightroom master image files 5 are on my external hard drive is disconnected from the mbp

  How can I change lightroom 5 previews smart on the book of mac pro (mbp) when lightroom master image files 5 are on my external hard drive is disconnected from the mbp? So far when I try to disconnect the external hard drive the mbp, I get the pop following window: "external hard drive A" disc could not be ejected because it uses 'Lightroom '. Exit this application and try out this disc again. When I do that and restart Lightroom 5, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - screen select catalog appears, but does not list my external hard drive A as a choice.

  I've been reviewing Adobe's Lightroom Help | Smart web page Previews Lightroom 5 and still have not been able to understand what I am doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

  HI Thomas,

  Thank you very much for your suggestions! They finally gave me the direction I go solve the problems I had. Basically, the Mac Book Pro based Lightroom irdata files still had thumbnails. Once I removed the and redirected Lightroom external hard disk, smart previews of the external drive work when the player is well off the MBP. Much obliged.

  I was wondering if you have any suggestions on how to backup all the files content and related data of Lightroom that exists on the external hard drive to another external hard drive as a backup? Ideally, it would be great if I could be able to launch security HD since the Mac Book Pro and do the work of Lightroom with the backup image files and intelligent previews correctly. Thanks again. Your help has been invaluable.

• Hi all. How can I manage the preferences that LR do not take up space on my MAC hard drive and works only on the external hard drive?

  Hi all. I am new and on a free trial right now.

  How can I manage the preferences that LR do not take up space on my MAC hard drive and works only on the external hard drive?

  Monthly payment included cloud storage?

  Peut I manage backups? And how?

  
  

  -Amir
  

  Hi amireos,

  Yes, you can create your workflow where you can keep all your images on the external hard drive and the Lightroom catalog file as well.

  If you start with Lightroom and then use the Destination location as external hard drive when you import your image of the external source such as a camera or SD.

  If you already have your Images on the Mac HD drive, then play all your Image on the external hard drive first and then import images directly from there.

  Finally, you can change the location of the Lightroom Catalog as well.

  Default location: folder on the Mac Drive HD, there is folder called Lightroom that you can move on the external drive too (however catalog Lightroom can't memory space as its only import previews of the images is not the real image and full)

  Once you move the file catalog Lightroom external hard disk, then you need to browse the catalog file when you launch Lightroom only once.

  See thread: LR catalog moving on external hard drive

  Let us know if it helps.

  Kind regards

  ~ Mohit

• Lightroom recognizes not all my photos on my external hard drive?

  Lightroom recognizes not all my photos on my external hard drive, he sees the part of a file, but not all the files it contains. Virtually everything is there except that one folder, it says all were imported, but they don't show...

  If you wwant photos will show up in Lightroom on your external drive, you must (in Lightroom), do a right click on the folder on your internal drive that has photos and select Update folder location. Then select the appropriate external hard disk folder. You may get a message asking if you want to merge files, allow this merger.

• 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

• Photos can work using just an external HARD disk and leave my only intern?

  Hello

  I am using v1.5 Photos. On my Macbook HARD internal disk fills up very quickly. Fortunately, I have a nice external 1 TB drive and I would like to:

  (1) move all my photos on the external drive and direct Photos program so search the folder on the external HARD drive to find all photos.

  (2) when I import pictures from my camera in the future, that the Mac them automatically in the folder of photos on the external HARD disk and not keep fill the space limited on my Mac small disk internal.

  Is this possible? I remember that I was able to do it with iTunes years when I used a Powermac with 4 x internal HDD of various sizes. iTunes has been able to see the music on each disk files and present them to me as a single list of iTunes.

  I'm not interested in using iCloud at all, I have everything on HARD drive and memory sticks and I am satisfied that, as it provides all the storage I need and I only use a computer for my work.

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  Yes, it is possible to keep the pictures library on an external drive. Make sure that the unit is running at the launch of photos from your Mac.

  See this discussion for detailed instructions of another user.

  How can I move Photos on external hard drive?

• Lightroom has stopped to move files on my external hard drive, it was working fine last night, but now I just get an error msg saying: he can't move them.

  Last night I started moving the external files on my PC hard drive internal to one of my hard drives for backup purposes. I've never had a problem in the past with older versions of LR but it's the first time I did it since arriving in LR CC. I moved several 100 RAW files last night with a problem, but as it was late, I stopped. I created LR move that several 1000 files today while I was only to return home and find that most of the files have not been moved and LR, saying that he cannot move them.

  I tried to move a small folder of files but I get the same result, I'm quite puzzled by what worked yesterday doesn't work not today or the same as the older versions of LR. Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you very much

  Neil.

  Arrgh I'm sorry dj_paige I just found the problem.

  Windows has changed the drive letters on one of my external drives and I tried to move the files to a full drive! Not surprising that RAW files would not move.

  I'm so sorry for wasting your time and can only apologize for not noticing the problem yesterday, I can only put it down to my own fatigue at the end of a long day.

  I now eat a large slice of humble pie and feeling rather stupid.

• Lightroom will not start with the catalogue of external hard drive

  Switching computers (Mac), I've updated Lightroom 6 4. He opened with an old catalog that won't only up until 2013, which is on an external drive. I tried to revive with my current catalog, and I get a message: Lightroom catalog cannot be used because the parent folder "/Volumes/ (name) / (name) of the hand catalog / (name) of the hand catalog" does not allow the files it contains. El Capitan has more patch file permissions in disk utility and, in addition, this catalog is on the same drive as the oldest catalogue is on. Any ideas?

  Sharing and permissions of the older cases seems to be a problem with El Capitan.  I tried to copy a folder to an external drive. This file was created and copied using the Mavericks.  It would not copy. Said, I have no privileges, I think that the message. It was all in Finder NOT lightroom.

  So, I clicked on the folder parent in question;  and then did you read the information.  In the result pane, I changed the permissions to "everyone".  It worked.  Then once it has been copied, I changed it back!  It takes a few minutes to update and warns that it can not be cancelled?  Don't know what it means until I am able to change permissions back.

  In any case; Save then try this. I said back first?  Yes.  YMMV.

• I currently store my pictures on and an external hard drive.  Lightroom 6 was not able to find the picture momentarily files.  I inserted an external Flash DRIVE after removing the hard drive and the computer renamed the stick with the same drive letter t

  Redesign existing external hard disks and still 6 Lightroom able to find existing photos.

  I currently store my pictures on and an external hard drive.  Lightroom 6 was not able to find the picture momentarily files.  I inserted an external Flash DRIVE after removing the hard drive and the computer renamed the stick with the same drive letter that has been designated by Lightroom to store my photos.  I could go into my Windows 10 and reset the player to the letter that Lightroom has given at the beginning of the external hard drive.   However, I know this can happen again, if I connect any stick USD or another device, while the external hard drive is not connected to my laptop.   I found the information that I can do the new designation of the final drive by choosing a letter it is 1/2 way or higher in the alphabet.   I would like to turn an external hard drive on a strong letter, warns we hope this previous problem.   My question is, if I already have a lot of pictures on this external hardrive with the designation of the current drive, how it becomes a higher letter and have 6 Lightroom recognizes files, now under the new designation of drive letter without having to go to each photo individually and manually force Lightroom 6 find each photo.  It would take more time than I'd like to lose.  Is there a way to get just 6 Lightroom to recognize the new disk designation has changed and is able to find all of the existing files?

  I have read the ADOBE LightRoom 6 manual and seem not to be able to find anything on how to do it.

  Any help would be welcome.

  Thank you!

  So in Windows, you can select a drive like q letter (or any other letter you want only towards the end of the alphabet)

  Then in Lightroom, you can reconnect to the photos on q: the following instructions (see specifically 4 Figure and related text)

  Adobe Lightroom - find moved or missing folders and files

• Why has Lightroom copied my pictures from my external hard drive to my drive internal while the import?

  I loaded all my photos on an external hard drive, created a new catalog and imported into Lightroom CC. However, there, without checking the book 'copy' copied all the pictures imported on my internal drive and they also linked in this way. Is it possible to ask Lightroom to just link the photos on my external hard drive?

  If you want pictures to stay where they are on the import, you must specify "Add", not "Move" or "copy".

  

• This external hard drive is compatible with my iMac 7.1?

  Hello, I intend to update my OS X, but first need to buy a hard drive to back up my files.  I found this one, but I don't know if it is compatible with my iMac mid 2007.  Can you please advise me if it will work?

  The external hard drive is this:

  1 to, G-Drive Mobile 5400 RPM, USB 2.0, 2.5 in.

  These are my computer specs:

  Model name: iMac

  Model identifier: iMac7, 1

  Processor name: Intel Core 2 Duo

  CPU speed: 2 GHz

  Number of processors: 1

  Total number of cores: 2

  L2 Cache: 4 MB

  Memory: 1 GB

  Bus speed: 800 MHz

  Boot ROM version: IM71.007A.B03

  Version of the SCM (System): 1.20f4

  Serial number (System): W8 * X 85

  Material UUID: *.

  I know that USB 2.0 will be very slow, but I don't mind.  I've only used 1.4 GB of space on my computer anyway.

  Thank you

  < personal information under the direction of the host >

  In General, external hard drives are universal, so they will work with any computer.  The particular drive you say should work perfectly.

  http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mobile-1-TB-bus-powered-hard-drive

  You don't even have to format it because it comes pre-format for right of Mac Out of the box.

  Given that your Mac has only USB ports 2.0, he "does get a USB drive 3.0" Also the read speed of the internal hard disk will be always much slower than the speed of the USB 2 bus, so no need to have extra speed on the connection, you will not be able to use.  You probably won't notice it in any way.

• Since the update of Vista on my external hard drive problems

  I have a problem with my external hard drive. A week ago I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium on my PC. Everything worked very well, my external hard drive, too. But after installing all the new updates and SP2 my external hard drive has problems. If I copy something from her, or just listen to the music is recorded on it, so overall if I work with her, after 1 to 3 minutes it stops working. I have to sign in to get access to it again. But before installing SP2 updates after SP2 everything worked out very well. So I think that there is a problem with SP2 or the following updates. My Pc is a Dell Dimension 9200 and the external hard drive is a Verbatim 1 TB external hard drive and USB 2.0

  I tried to bbot with Ubuntu and delete the Autorun.inf. Now everything works fine again.
  Thank you

• PrE 9 external hard drives

  Hi, I'm new to the forum.

  I recently bought 9 PrE and think it's fantastic, but I have a few questions.

  I have a 1 TB external hard drive (NTFS) and have been storing my new videos on it, and I like to keep my those published it too... as I have little or no experience editing and use PrE, I want to know exactly what files I should be stored where? Any advice would be very welcome.

  Also, I had a big problem by installing a program recently and along at least, is that I had to recreate the Windows 7 image, Ouch, so I am very keen to do things first with the PrE, in terms of storing files.

  Other tips on best practices would also be useful.

  Thank you very much

  brushman

  One thing that I recommend, to the extent of the work out of your external drive: every time that you start a new Premiere Elements project, create a new folder for it on your external drive and store the project file in this folder. This will keep all your project, rendering, and temporary files in the same area. This is not only good household, but it is easy to remove all the files when you want to clean your disc later.

  When you have finished editing your project, I recommend now that a final version of the quality of your final mix in your archives. This is not saving all of your changes are raw images, but it makes it easy to return to your file of higher quality and make a few additional changes or take a clip of her later.

  If you have a camcorder tape (miniDV or HDV) you can even save this final return on the Strip. It is a great way to save your old, finished projects. I have a whole drawer full of them!

  In the contrary case, it depends on how you work in hi-def and standard-def.

  To record a finish of a standard definition project, the ideal format is part/computer/AVI with DV preseeding.

  To record a finish of a project of hi-def, the ideal format is part/computer/MPEG with the preset 1440 x 1080 30i.

  These files are only about 13 GB in size for each hour of video, so that they should not take too much space on your 1 TB drive.

• Toshiba PX1266E - 1 25 external hard drive (250 GB)

  I had a glance at the map, I don't see anyone with a similar problem, so I am posting this in the hope that someone can help me.

  I currently have a HDD external Toshiba PX1266E - 1 25 (250 GB) that is causing me problems.

  I have two laptops that I use: a single running XP (SP3) and a staff of Vista (SP1). The password on the Toshiba Disk Manager software seems to be compatible with XP but not Vista, so whenever I used the disc with my Vista laptop, I've been disable Manager password using the application ONSPCRT.exe on the phantom CD-ROM created by the HARD drive, then reactivation using the ONSPCSET.exe application is also on the ghost of CD-ROM.

  It worked well until last night. I had been back a few more data at the disk of the Vista laptop and then re-enabled the software Password Manager. However, 20 minutes later, I decided that I wanted to copy something from the HARD drive to the laptop Vista, so I plugged it in, turned off password using ONSPCRT Manager and then... nothing. Usually, when you do this, the AutoPlay box appears for the HARD disk and asks me how I want to set the type of files on the HARD drive. Now, it does absolutely nothing.

  I tried in the XP laptop and once again, nothing. I tried to re - enable and disable Manager password several times. I always used the right password and do not understand why my HARD drive does not start to run automatically when I enter the password, or plug it into a computer with an invalid password manager.

  The ghost CD (usually labeled as "Password" and allocated drive E :) appears again and I can access all the files on it, but the drive HARD himself (who was usually allocated drive F :) simply does not appear in my computer at all now.)

  Please, please, please help - my ongoing doctoral research is stored on this drive and I'm frantic, just think that I could have lost. Is there some sort of Autorun feature that I could have accidentally triggered?

  Post edited by: Sweetchuck

  Hmm.

  Try this:
  -Disconnect the HARD drive to the USB port
  -remove the hubs and USB port on the Device Manager
  -restart the laptop
  -wait until the USB ports will be installed
  -Connect the HARD drive and then try to access the data

  I'm not sure if this will help, but in my case that worked perfectly if the external HARD drive was not recognized in my computer

  Good luck

• Windows 7 can not "see" the files on my external hard drive all of a sudden after I used ICACLS to give me full control.

  I used ICACLS in a command prompt high to give me all permissions for all on the external hard drive. I do not share the disk or remove permissions from any other 'user' but all of a sudden the guest not to see the files on the disc and I don't know what to do about it. But when I open a window and go outside, the files are there, I can access it, use them in all cases, I would normally.

  Anyone has an idea why an elevated command prompt would not be able to see the files that are clearly on the external hard drive? There is just something not right on command prompt, you see only not the files that are there.

  Thanks in advance

  Update: it turns out that there seems to be some kind of conflict between the UAC and the Administrators group. Don't know how I was touched, but I finally finished refusing authorization in writing system on my external hard drive. Suddenly Builtin Administrator, users of Builtin and NT Authority stood, one of them, or another group, resumed training, locked read-only access to all files, and then he took it a little further and removed my ability to write attributes or read them. I was forced to use a back up 'Admin I have on standby with a third I reapplied my main administrator permissions, but still denied access. After doing things with ICACLS, I was able to get a partial control, but I still couldn't save.

  At the end of the road, it turns out that an external hard drive formatted in NTFS is recognized by the computer as a disk fixed, as if it were part of the computer, and there it was treated as such, given my file system files by locking the.

  Even with the hidden Builtin Administrator I activated, I couldn't access the files. I finally had to move all the girls to the drive c:\ and format the external drive with exFat so that the system do not think that he was part of the computer. Unfortunately, I can never depend on having a System Image backup because exFat cannot have a writing for her.

  I have full access, as well as anyone and everyone, there is no permissions on exFat, so it's a compromise, better than the system for the control of my own computer ruined combat...

  Luke