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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >>> Religion - Answers we must never question. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > 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.
