Eric, from my own experience, I'd toss the drive that failed. It probably wasn't a software hiccup that caused the failure. The mechanical failure will recur--it's only a question of when. I lost a significant portion of my catalog on one computer under similar circumstances. I was able to recover some, but not the all of it.
Yonnie On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> On Nov 8, 2015, at 11:10 AM, David Parsons <parsons.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In the Library module, right click on the folder, and select Remove. >> It will tell you that the folder will be removed from Lightroom, but >> the files will remain on the disk. >> >> If you are moving things around outside of Lightroom, don't keep >> importing them, update the folder locations in Lightroom by right >> clicking on the folder in the Library module and select Update Folder >> Location and point it to the new spot. This way all the work you've >> done on the files will move over and be associated with the files >> correctly and you won't have duplicate file entries. > > Thanks, David. Now I’m a bit concerned. First, the reason for the first move > was failure of the hard drive on which I was keeping my photos. The switch to > the other drive involved importing the database on the backup drive, which I > believe—though I am now a little uncertain—was up-to-date. I purchased and > installed an 8 TB WD My Book Duo (two 4 TB drives), I have a copy of the > backed up database on one of the new drives, and would like to use it as the > original location of the database. > > Something else that may be relevant is that in the process of getting the new > setup configured the way I wanted it copied the original backup of the > database to one of the new drives so I could reformat and reparation my > original backup drive. In the process I renamed the drive (My Book from My > Book 2, because there was now only one My Book). So my concern: Have I lost > the data on my edits of images in the process of doing what I just described? > > Second, right clicking the folders in LR has no effect. Is that because LR is > not currently connected to the database? If so, given what I described above, > I am going to have to reimport the database? > > Thanks again, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > “[I]t is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.” > > - Anais Nin > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
