Movement on external hard drive lost previews.

Hello

Ref: Lightroom 5.7 [991162] on Win-7 Ver.6.1 [7601]

When I import photos LR creates intelligent previews.

To free up disk space, I moved files on an external drive. This was done inside LR by doing drag (subfolders) to C:\... \Lightroom\yyyy to E:\... \Lightroom\yyyy.

Now, when the external drive is disconnected, the preview/thumbnails are gray. I need to connect to find missing photos.

I understand that LR keep thumbnails in the catalog.

What I failed to do?

Thank you.

It looks like your work and external backup drives shared drive letters. This is a problem common when you use several external drives, USB drives and card readers, etc. who are often deleted. This can be corrected using letters M well that Z rather than E and F. You will have to reconnect your 'work' inside LR disc after you assign a new drive letter, as shown below. The backup drive should not be visible or accessible from the inside of the module LR library for obvious reasons. This should fix the problem you are experiencing.

How to assign a static on a USB drive letter in Windows 7

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