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 ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com Flickr : jvw_pentax -- 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.
