Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me. I've got a little stuck.
I've moved my photos and the Lr catalog a number of times in the past and I've never had a problem... until now.
I've just bought a new, larger capacity external HDD, the same make and model as the last one and I've copied the catalog and the image folder across so that the two drives are identical (one just has more free space).
My structure is as follows:
Hard drive
Photos (this is the folder name and contains all my raw files)
My Lr catalog is on the same hard drive and point to this 'Photos' folder.
I right-clicked on the top-most image folder in the folder structure in Lr and selected 'Update Folder Location' and navigated to the same folder on the new drive.
Then all my images had the dreaded exclamation mark in the corner so I looked back in the folder structure and Lr has created a second folder (which doesn't exist) so it now looks like this in Lr:
Hard drive
Photos
Photos?
I tried to remove the 'Photos?' folder but nothing happened. I reverted to the original folder on the original drive and that was fine but when I tried to update the folder location again I've now got in a pickle. Lr is looking at the catalog on my old hard drive but none of the images are really there. There's no metadata, edits, nothing, just the previews.
So I've got comfort in knowing I've still got all the original raw files in multiple locations (different hard drives) and I've got the Lr catalog with all my edits also in multiple locations but I don't know how to access them anymore.
Any help would be appreciated!
Phil