I greatly appreciate everyone's help here, but things are a mess with this catalogue. The more I look try to compare the two folder structures on the 2 main drives, the more messy it seems to be. I think I'll ignore this for a few days, and try again when I've stopped weeping :-).
I think it's time to rethink my workflow and photo management system, and I think I need some tutorials on advanced photo management and catalogues skills. It's to the adobe videos for me, and perhaps a purchase of a book. If anyone knows of a good book for Lightroom 4, I'd appreciate the recommendation. I have the Scott Kelby book for the early Lightroom version (1 or 2 ), and thought it ok, but I found him a bit wordy. If there's another book you'd recommend by a different author who gets right to the point, I'd be very grateful. Cheers, Christine On Jul 11, 2012, at 7:29 AM, George Sinos wrote: > Christine - here's a video that shows how to find missing or relocated > files and folders. > > <http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-4/import-moving-folders-around-after-the-fact/> > > If you have the same structure on both drives, It takes longer to > watch the explanation than to do it. > > Just a tip for people organizing things in Lightroom. Put all of your > files and folders under one top level folder. Call it "photo library" > of whatever you would like. This makes it easy to move everything to > a different drive. > > gs > > George Sinos > -------------------- > [email protected] > www.georgesphotos.net > plus.georgesinos.com > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Quoting Eric Featherstone <[email protected]>: >> >>> I believe there's a rather simpler solution. Your lightroom catalogue >>> has stored within it the location each photo and these of course all >>> point to a drive called "Lightroom 1". If your thrid drive reeally is >>> an identical copy of "Lightroom 1" then name it identically too (i.e. >>> Lightroom 1), then start Lightroom and it will all just work. >> >> >> >> >> That was my first thought as well but not being a Lightroom user I wasn't >> sure if there was something in the database structure that wouldn't allow it >> to work. >> >> In my Studioline image management system I did precisely that when I needed >> to create a separate backup of the database. Is there any reason why it >> wouldn't work with Lightroom? >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Brian >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Brian Walters >> Western Sydney Australia >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >> >> >> >>> >>> David's method perfectly valid but is just a little more involved, >>> needing to relocate the files from within Lightroom. I don't have >>> Lightroom here in front of me but from memory you would right click >>> (or maybe apple or option click on a mac?) on the topmost folder level >>> in the left hand pane and choose "locate", then browse to your >>> Lightroom 2 disk in the dialogue that comes up. >>> >>> Eric. >>> >>> On 11 July 2012 09:22, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm not sure how to "simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2". I just >>>> tried to figure it out, but I'm lost. The only option I see is to reimport >>>> each folder on Lightroom 2 drive into the catalogue, but I'd still have the >>>> original "missing file" and I'd have to rerender the photo. Each >>>> individual folder of photos on Lightroom 2 does not appear in the Folders >>>> panel on the left hand side of the Library module. It does for Lightroom >>>> 1, >>>> which was the drive the catalogue was linked to. Is this the problem? >>>> >>>> Sorry, Dave, for not understanding your directions, but I do appreciate >>>> your help, It's late. I think I'll try this again in the morning, but I >>>> don't feel confident I'll have better luck. >>>> >>>> Cheers, Christine >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:47 AM, David Parsons wrote: >>>> >>>>> Do not delete the catalog or the images in the catalog. That will >>>>> erase any keywording and image editing that you may have done. >>>>> >>>>> If the backup (Lightroom 2) has the identical files that Lightroom 1 >>>>> had, then simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2, and make Lightroom >>>>> 3 a new backup (I would seriously think about using a different naming >>>>> scheme). >>>>> >>>>> If Lightroom 2 has the same files, but they aren't in the same folder >>>>> structure, then it will be more tedious to link the files (but >>>>> infinitely more preferable to re-importing and re-doing all your >>>>> previous work). >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Christine Aguila >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Everyone: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm seeking advice. Here's the situation: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1) I've been using 2 external drives for my photos. I have called >>>>>> these drives Lightroom 1 (main one which has been linked to a catalogue >>>>>> of >>>>>> 8,000 plus photos) and Lightroom 2 (back up). Well, Lightroom 1 stopped >>>>>> responding. It's been replaced, and I have named the replacement >>>>>> external >>>>>> drive Lightroom 3. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2) Now, all the photos in my catalogue of 8,000 plus photos are >>>>>> identified in Lightroom as "missing." As Lightroom users know, this is >>>>>> because Lightroom can't find the external drive Lightroom 1 (the drive >>>>>> that >>>>>> died). >>>>>> >>>>>> So, my question is, what would our experienced Lightroom users do in >>>>>> this situation? Would you >>>>>> a) delete all images in the catalogue and reimport from Lightroom 2 >>>>>> (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)? >>>>>> OR >>>>>> b) delete the catalogue itself, create a new catalogue, then import >>>>>> photos from Lightroom 2 (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)? >>>>>> OR >>>>>> c) something different? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, lately I've been thinking of going through all my photos and >>>>>> really weed out the junk, so I thought that since I have to deal with >>>>>> this >>>>>> photo management mess, I'd also do some weeding at the same time. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, Christine >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
