By default, when Lightroom is set to do auto backup of the library, it creates the backup in a Backups directory which exists in the same directory as the library in question. The first time it is going to do a backup, it puts up a dialog to ask where you would prefer to store the backups and you can direct it to wherever seems appropriate for your uses.
To reset where it is going to put backups, first in Lightroom choose the preferences option to do a backup ONLY the next time Lightroom is started. Then quit and go to the directory enclosing the library, delete the Backups subdirectory and all its contents. Now start Lightroom on that library and you'll get the dialog which asks where to store the backups ... you can now set the location per your preferences. Remember to reset the auto backup preferences to reflect your desired frequency for library backups afterwards. Godfrey On May 13, 2007, at 6:28 AM, 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? > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
