Re: Computer restoration pain

[Rick Womer]

Zos,

Yes, I just set the program to discard previews after 30 days rather
than keeping them forever. This new machine generates them
considerably faster than the old one, so it shouldn't be a problem.

My next ambition is to export my 2016-2018 pix to a separate catalog
that will store the images on the SSD, rather than on an external
drive.

Rick

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Zos Xavius  wrote:
> Yes. show parent folder and then relink the parent. done. :)
>
> Glad it worked out ok!
>
> I don't think you can relink the previews. You don't have to generate
> them all. its just a cache anyways. once you get to your max preview
> cache size it starts deleting older previews. don't worry about the
> previews so much. unless you have a large set to work on at once, then
> you can just simply regenerate the previews for that set to speed
> things up. It will generate previews on the fly.
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Rick Womer  wrote:
>> Thanks for the advice. The images and catalog are now linked!
>>
>> One more question: I can't find a way to link to the previews; so the
>> computer ground away all night and only generated new previews for
>> about 10% of the 44K images.
>>
>> Is there a way to get it to recognize the existing Preview file? I
>> can't find one.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:29 AM, John  wrote:
>>> Right Click works on Macs if you have a two button mouse.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/17/2018 08:13, Matthew Hunt wrote:

 Maybe you need to right-click (or the Mac equivalent) on a folder and
 select "Show Parent Folder"?

 On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:

> So I have my nifty new Mac Mini here with its internal SSD; and a new
> external HDD to be my primary external drive; and a couple of drives for
> backups.
>
> LR and the current catalog are on the internal drive, and the photos are
> on the external drive (retrieved from a backup).
>
> The photos are in hierarchical folders: Year / Month / Shoot (for
> example,
> 2016 / 2016-10 / Vancouver). They’re organized that way on the new
> external
> drive.
>
> The problems are two (probably related):
>
> First, I can only seem to link the catalog with the photos
> folder-by-folder, using the lowest folders in the hierarchy. There are
> hundreds of such folders. In a half-hour of work I managed to link about
> 500 of my 45,000 photos.
>
> Second, I can’t get the hierarchical display of folders to display in the
> left panels.
>
> There’s GOT to be a better way… I hope!
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Rick
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Re: Computer restoration pain

[Zos Xavius]

Yes. show parent folder and then relink the parent. done. :)

Glad it worked out ok!

I don't think you can relink the previews. You don't have to generate
them all. its just a cache anyways. once you get to your max preview
cache size it starts deleting older previews. don't worry about the
previews so much. unless you have a large set to work on at once, then
you can just simply regenerate the previews for that set to speed
things up. It will generate previews on the fly.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Rick Womer  wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. The images and catalog are now linked!
>
> One more question: I can't find a way to link to the previews; so the
> computer ground away all night and only generated new previews for
> about 10% of the 44K images.
>
> Is there a way to get it to recognize the existing Preview file? I
> can't find one.
>
> Rick
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:29 AM, John  wrote:
>> Right Click works on Macs if you have a two button mouse.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/17/2018 08:13, Matthew Hunt wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe you need to right-click (or the Mac equivalent) on a folder and
>>> select "Show Parent Folder"?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:
>>>
 So I have my nifty new Mac Mini here with its internal SSD; and a new
 external HDD to be my primary external drive; and a couple of drives for
 backups.

 LR and the current catalog are on the internal drive, and the photos are
 on the external drive (retrieved from a backup).

 The photos are in hierarchical folders: Year / Month / Shoot (for
 example,
 2016 / 2016-10 / Vancouver). They’re organized that way on the new
 external
 drive.

 The problems are two (probably related):

 First, I can only seem to link the catalog with the photos
 folder-by-folder, using the lowest folders in the hierarchy. There are
 hundreds of such folders. In a half-hour of work I managed to link about
 500 of my 45,000 photos.

 Second, I can’t get the hierarchical display of folders to display in the
 left panels.

 There’s GOT to be a better way… I hope!

 Any help appreciated.

 Rick
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Re: Computer restoration pain

[Rick Womer]

Thanks for the advice. The images and catalog are now linked!

One more question: I can't find a way to link to the previews; so the
computer ground away all night and only generated new previews for
about 10% of the 44K images.

Is there a way to get it to recognize the existing Preview file? I
can't find one.

Rick

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:29 AM, John  wrote:
> Right Click works on Macs if you have a two button mouse.
>
>
>
> On 4/17/2018 08:13, Matthew Hunt wrote:
>>
>> Maybe you need to right-click (or the Mac equivalent) on a folder and
>> select "Show Parent Folder"?
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:
>>
>>> So I have my nifty new Mac Mini here with its internal SSD; and a new
>>> external HDD to be my primary external drive; and a couple of drives for
>>> backups.
>>>
>>> LR and the current catalog are on the internal drive, and the photos are
>>> on the external drive (retrieved from a backup).
>>>
>>> The photos are in hierarchical folders: Year / Month / Shoot (for
>>> example,
>>> 2016 / 2016-10 / Vancouver). They’re organized that way on the new
>>> external
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> The problems are two (probably related):
>>>
>>> First, I can only seem to link the catalog with the photos
>>> folder-by-folder, using the lowest folders in the hierarchy. There are
>>> hundreds of such folders. In a half-hour of work I managed to link about
>>> 500 of my 45,000 photos.
>>>
>>> Second, I can’t get the hierarchical display of folders to display in the
>>> left panels.
>>>
>>> There’s GOT to be a better way… I hope!
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>
>>> Rick
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Re: Computer restoration pain

[John]

Right Click works on Macs if you have a two button mouse.


On 4/17/2018 08:13, Matthew Hunt wrote:

Maybe you need to right-click (or the Mac equivalent) on a folder and
select "Show Parent Folder"?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:


So I have my nifty new Mac Mini here with its internal SSD; and a new
external HDD to be my primary external drive; and a couple of drives for
backups.

LR and the current catalog are on the internal drive, and the photos are
on the external drive (retrieved from a backup).

The photos are in hierarchical folders: Year / Month / Shoot (for example,
2016 / 2016-10 / Vancouver). They’re organized that way on the new external
drive.

The problems are two (probably related):

First, I can only seem to link the catalog with the photos
folder-by-folder, using the lowest folders in the hierarchy. There are
hundreds of such folders. In a half-hour of work I managed to link about
500 of my 45,000 photos.

Second, I can’t get the hierarchical display of folders to display in the
left panels.

There’s GOT to be a better way… I hope!

Any help appreciated.

Rick
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Re: Computer restoration pain

[Matthew Hunt]

Maybe you need to right-click (or the Mac equivalent) on a folder and
select "Show Parent Folder"?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:

> So I have my nifty new Mac Mini here with its internal SSD; and a new
> external HDD to be my primary external drive; and a couple of drives for
> backups.
>
> LR and the current catalog are on the internal drive, and the photos are
> on the external drive (retrieved from a backup).
>
> The photos are in hierarchical folders: Year / Month / Shoot (for example,
> 2016 / 2016-10 / Vancouver). They’re organized that way on the new external
> drive.
>
> The problems are two (probably related):
>
> First, I can only seem to link the catalog with the photos
> folder-by-folder, using the lowest folders in the hierarchy. There are
> hundreds of such folders. In a half-hour of work I managed to link about
> 500 of my 45,000 photos.
>
> Second, I can’t get the hierarchical display of folders to display in the
> left panels.
>
> There’s GOT to be a better way… I hope!
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Rick
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Re: Computer restoration pain

[Jan van Wijk]

Hi Rick, Larry

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 23:25:45 -0700 Larry Colen wrote:
>
>
>Now fire up lightroom.  Note that steps 1&2 might not be necessary, so you 
>could try skipping them at first.
>
>3) Go to the left pane, try to expand the Folders pane
>
>4) If that doesn't work, at the top of the left panel expand catalogs,
>click on All photographs
>(or just get some photograph in the center panel in grid view)
>
>Right click on a photo and select Go to folder in library
>
>At this point it should open up that image and the folder should be 
>highlighted on the left. If it doesn't show the parent directories go to the 
>top directory shown, right click on it and click on Show Parent 
Folder, repeat until it shows the root folder of your image directory tree.
>
>That folder should show with a question mark.
>
>Right click on it and then click on find missing folder, or something like 
>that.  Possibly you may need to right click on it and click on show in finder, 
>but I think that only works on individual photos.
>
>I hope this helps, or at least gets you closer. At the very least someone will 
>read what I say and then post the correct answer because as they say the 
>fastest way to get your question answered on the 
net is to post the wrong answer.

That is exactly how I always switch between my primary photo-disk and backups.
Just let it find the TOP-level folder where all your photis reside, just a 
single action.

However, I do remmber needing to do the 'drilling down' towards the top-folder 
once
because by default, Lightroom does not show that, I vaguely recall there was a 
specific
setting for that (show top level folders ?)

Of course, this works best if indeed all yopur photos are under a single folder,
if they are in many seperate folders directly under the root, you probably need 
to
locate each one of these in turn ...

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Re: Computer restoration pain

[Larry Colen]

Rick Womer wrote:


The problems are two (probably related):

First, I can only seem to link the catalog with the photos folder-by-folder, 
using the lowest folders in the hierarchy. There are hundreds of such folders. 
In a half-hour of work I managed to link about 500 of my 45,000 photos.

Second, I can’t get the hierarchical display of folders to display in the left 
panels.

There’s GOT to be a better way… I hope!

Any help appreciated.


I'm running Lightroom 6 but this should work across all of them.

My left panel has a Folders pane, and it has a triangle next to it that 
when it is clicked to point down, opens up a pane for each drive.


If that isn't what you see could you post a screen shot?

In your shoes what I'd do is:

0) close lightroom

1) go into finder and rename your recently worked catalog off as a 
backup, change it from foo to foo.orig


note that ~ is your home directory, i.e. on mine /Users/lrc
on yours it might be /Users/rick
on my system it's in
~/photo/lr6_catalogs/160701_working/150701_working.lrcat

I'd change the directory in lr6_catalogs to 160701_working_temp_backup

2) copy your original catalog back into your catalogs directory so 
you're opening lightroom on your default directory as if you never 
changed anything


Now fire up lightroom.  Note that steps 1&2 might not be necessary, so 
you could try skipping them at first.


3) Go to the left pane, try to expand the Folders pane

4) If that doesn't work, at the top of the left panel expand catalogs,
click on All photographs
(or just get some photograph in the center panel in grid view)

Right click on a photo and select Go to folder in library

At this point it should open up that image and the folder should be 
highlighted on the left. If it doesn't show the parent directories go to 
the top directory shown, right click on it and click on Show Parent 
Folder, repeat until it shows the root folder of your image directory tree.


That folder should show with a question mark.

Right click on it and then click on find missing folder, or something 
like that.  Possibly you may need to right click on it and click on show 
in finder, but I think that only works on individual photos.


I hope this helps, or at least gets you closer. At the very least 
someone will read what I say and then post the correct answer because as 
they say the fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to 
post the wrong answer.






Rick


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Computer restoration pain

[Rick Womer]

So I have my nifty new Mac Mini here with its internal SSD; and a new external 
HDD to be my primary external drive; and a couple of drives for backups.

LR and the current catalog are on the internal drive, and the photos are on the 
external drive (retrieved from a backup).

The photos are in hierarchical folders: Year / Month / Shoot (for example, 2016 
/ 2016-10 / Vancouver). They’re organized that way on the new external drive.

The problems are two (probably related):

First, I can only seem to link the catalog with the photos folder-by-folder, 
using the lowest folders in the hierarchy. There are hundreds of such folders. 
In a half-hour of work I managed to link about 500 of my 45,000 photos.

Second, I can’t get the hierarchical display of folders to display in the left 
panels.

There’s GOT to be a better way… I hope!

Any help appreciated.

Rick
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