If you set a drive label (volume name for OS X users, but volume names/labels are only optional on Windows), Lr will use and prefer that, all the confusion of changing drive letters will disappear.
Godfrey > On Nov 1, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. -- 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.
