Need help synchronization of two hard disks. It's like a problem of history ;)

Hello, I use the latest version of Lightroom CC on an imac and macbook. I have two external drives that I keep updated catalogues duplicate and image files on. (it is a fairly new practice for me) I know it's heavy, but I like the idea of being able to edit any picture at any time in lightroom or photoshop.

The problem is one of my drives lack now all my folders in the lightroom catalog and I can't understand how to get back them.

The reader, I created a folder for my lightroom catalog and parent a folder for all my images. I copied then each of them to drive B. Once I open lightroom on drive B using all my laptop, I had to do was click on the parent folder and choose find missing files and I was back in business. in recent weeks, I went back between readers and computers make copies and put up-to-date catalogs and the image files that I went without problems.

Today, I accidentally opened lightroom with two drives connected and worked on the B drive when I thought that I was working on the reader a catalogue. I don't know exactly what I did but I lost all the files I had to drive A. I think I can try to find missing files and choose the right folder, but I'm not sure. The good news is I can still work on the B drive and it is fully functional, but I need to know how to recover my files on a drive.

Can someone help me with this?

I'll go out on a limb and suggest that you use correctly the two discs. A reader (A) must be the drive working, any changes made here. The other disk (B) must be your emergency backup where you frequently copy the new files to a. No work should never conducted on the B, the backup drive.

The LR catalog follows by {drive + path + name} image files.

The location of the catalog is completely independent of the location of the images.

When you copy the catalog of drive A to B by car, the catalog B still points to the files on drive A.

If you want to use the catalogue on B with images on B, you must go to the files Panel and "relocate" all top level folders to point to drive B.

The same thing occurs when you copy the catalog of drive B into drive A.

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