I had a similar problem with removable drives. Adding a new one buggered up all my removable drive letters. I suspect that the external drive you're using is USB or Firewire. You want to more or less permanently assign it a drive letter in any case.
Bob W wrote: > I don't know what drive letter Lightroom expects (although I suppose I > could guess). However, what you're suggesting could well bugger things > up for other programs, which are not expecting the drive letters to > change. In addition, I don't see how that would stop Lightroom from > making the same mistake again if I plug in another usb drive. The > correct approach is to fix it in Lightroom. > > -- > Bob > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of P. J. Alling >> Sent: 13 May 2007 15:37 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Chaniging the Lightroom backup location >> >> I don't know how to change the drive in Lightroom but assuming that >> you're using Microsoft WinXP you can semi-permanently assign a drive >> > > >> letter to your backup drive through the Computer Management >> Panel. Open >> that application, (sorry I don't remember where XP has it >> hidden, select >> Storage->Disk Management from the Tree. It will take a bit of time >> refreshing the display depending on your machines speed. Select the >> > > >> device you normally store to and right click on it. Select "Change >> Drive Letter and Path" from the drop down menu. Edit that to be the >> > > >> drive letter expected by Lightroom. Save and close everything. Next >> > > >> time you plug n a jump drive Windows should avoid assigning >> that drive >> letter to the jump drive. >> >> Bob W wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> last week I started Lightroom when its automatic backup was due, >>> > and > >>> let it run. It so happened that I had a USB stick in the >>> >> computer, and >> >>> it used that to store the backup rather than the normal >>> >> drive which is >> >>> always attached to the PC. I noticed this when the backup had >>> finished. >>> >>> Today it wants to backup again, but fails because it can't find >>> somewhere to store the backups. I assume it is looking for the USB >>> drive, not the normal drive. So I'd like to reset it somehow to >>> > look > >>> for the normal drive which I keep attached. Unfortunately there >>> doesn't seem to be an option for this in the menus. >>> >>> Anybody have any clues as to how to change the backup drive? >>> >>> tia, >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the >> sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt >> nslpn raq liot. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
