Boris,
Thank you, that was a good idea! It allowed me to have both drives available at the same time. Just in case somebody else might be in a similar situation, here is what I did. In windows, using "Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management", changed the drive letter of my external USB drive to a different one "P:" in my case. (This MS article tells you how to do that in case you don't know: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter ) Then I did (in the command prompt): subst G: P:\ subst F: P:\ Now, I open LR, and I have both G: and F: with the folder Photos-2013 in it. Now I point to it, right-click, and choose "Update Folder Location", and then choose the same folder (Photos-2013) on P: . No physical file moving is involved in this process, - so it happens quickly. Now, I have everything consolidated on one drive, that from now on will always be attached as P: . (Note that G: -> Photos-2013 and F: -> Photos-2013 disappeared from "Folders") After that I remove the duplicate drives in the command prompt: subst G: /D subst F: /D Best regards, Igor Thu Oct 31 01:02:01 EDT 2013 Boris Liberman wrote: Igor, can't you use "subst" command and assign another "virtual" drive letter to the same physical drive? This little program: http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/visual-subst.html may help you to make your virtual arrangement more permanent as you can make it run at start time and restore the subst drives even before you run your LR. On 10/31/2013 6:53 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Hi All: > > I encountered the following situation (LR 3.4, Win7): > I have photos that are stored on an external HDD (connceted via USB). > They are in a LR catalog, but it happened that they were imported on > different occasions, - while the HDD had two different drive letters > assigned to it. > > So, no matter what letter the drive has at the moment, a portion of > the > photos is "missing". > So, I wanted to find those photos by "Find missing folder" (they are > all > under the same main folder (directory) which has sub-folders. > The problem is that when LR opens an "explorer" window so that I > can point to the "new" location of the folder, that one only > offers the internal HDD, and not the one connected via the USB (it > doesn't have "Computer" or any other high-level mounting points). So, > (This is a laptop, so I cannot connect this drive as an internal one.) > > Any idea how I can work around this problem? > > Thanks, > > Igor > > -- 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.
