Reconnect SEVERAL media offline files?

In Lightroom 2.4 there is a command to 'Find missing files', but I was able to use this folder one at a time.  It does not seem possible to reconnect a LR catalog to many records that have been moved in a single operation.  It becomes very painful when I burned a large volume of images on CD or DVD in order to clear them of the hard drive (where they were imported initially from cameras in folders marked by date).  Similarly, the option "find nearby missing Photos" Locate said only looking for others in the same folder, although I have not tried.)  Am I missing something, or is it a significant barrier to the management of assets in offline mode in LR? -JCarkW

Also, note there is an option "Update folder location" which can be useful for some of the things you do.

HOWEVER, I wonder if now the economy of drives external hard are not such that, when take you into account your time juggling DVD around, you'd be better off ditching burning discs?  just a thought...

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    I had success myself to recover deleted files... below is info of my experience... it may or may not be useful for you...

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    Note that if the OS of your PC has a file system or the disk driver configured to permanently remove the files after deletion, you can probably get them, but I never heard of this type of installation by default for most users.

    Usually deleted files are available for immediate recovery. The chances of recovery of right kind of come down while you continue to use your system... it's because the free space of the disk (which is currently deleted file data) is used by your activity as a user (e.g., write new documents, copy files, software installation, checking email... anything that uses disk space).

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    If the analogy above is bad because the systems files and records are more complex. For example, disks have sectors of bytes (512 bytes each on a PC). These sectors can be handled in some creative ways of operating systems... it's not important... the fact is that your files can always be there on disk sectors (or groups of sectors) that are marked as "ready to use" but they contain actually still your data. (Or they may not contain your data if you use your PC a lot, or maybe not a lot, but the operating system sometimes just use sectors. You cannot know up to enter the recovery process. There is no forecast here, only good Oi and better practical recovery... that do not guarantee anything for the most part)

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    There are other such anomalies that restore all files etc which software recovery tries to help doing... This can be more difficult depending on how you use your computer after you have removed the necessary files. If you are reusing a folder, you can "overwrite" file name and uses cleverly info directory as a resumption of the process.

    I have a PC and use Windows, so the in the past, I used PC/Windows-based recovery strategies. I used the following with success in the past...

    I have no affiliation with the companies. I just lost the files before and had great success recovering files with these tools.

    ... of the very important things...

    First of all, I'm kind of a techie so I can navigate in this type of software and the recovery of all treat fairly easily myself. For a typical user, maybe it's not feasible. Recovery services there, they cost money to use... I've never had to use it myself so I can't speak on what is good or not there. However, I bet that there are some very beautiful services rise. I think that one of the above may well have such a service... I don't know about you. In addition, most of these websites that offer recovery software will be guidelines that may help to explain things to you so that you can do yourself... their purpose is usually to help end-users, not just technicians, then you might want to read what recovery software provider web sites say (as above).

    Second, I don't have those above programs used in a long time. I finally used 5 years ago or something and before that as well... whenever I used, they helped me... they are looking for 'free space' on the disk and display the files that are found, let me recover.  I go to their site, whenever I lose a file like that and buy more later to recover when I need it.

    You can also search google more generally for 'file recovery software' and 'file recovery services'... you can even add your system such as "file recovery windows software ' or ' file recovery mac software" etc. Beware you ads from companies that cannot offer the best tools... when I found above, I watched mainly from comments, but should also play... these two companies above seem to always be around, they have always been my "go to" for recovery software, but if I was faced with this today, while I'd go probably on one or two of them still I also want to do a quick search to see what the latest critics say recovery. They may or may not be the best choice... I can't say.

    As mentioned, most of the software recovery and services have websites (as above) that explain some of the same information caveat. If you try to use recovery software, follow the steps in software vendors closely.

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