Adobe Lightroom – Another great time saving Top Tip

Most photographers will store their images on one or more  external devices, and may switch between computers. This can cause problems when the Lightroom catalog does cannot recognise the current drive letter assigned to your portable drive.When this happens it is common for all the folders in your Lightroom collection are “missing” requiring you to  locate each folder individually in turn on the disk so that Lightroom can relocate your  images.

If, like me,you have hundreds of folders in Lightroom this can become frustrating and time consuming.

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Solve the Problem of Missing Images and Folders in Lightroom

The solution;

1. Create one major directory or folder in which all your other folders on your external storage device are located.
2. Add this folder to your Lightroom catalogue so that it becomes your root folder.
3. Then if the folders are ever reported as being missing you can quickly locate this root folder and Lightroom will automatically find all the other missing folders that are contained within this one.

Adode Lightroom find missing folders and images

To create your main directory or root folder

1. Make sure that you locate all the folders of images in your Lightroom catalogue in a single folder on your external drive.
2. Make sure that there is at least one image in your root folder
3. Return to Lightroom and import the root folder you have just created into Lightroom.
4. Once imported you can remove the image from Lightroom and from the disk if desired. Once the folder has appeared in the Lightroom catalogue it will stay there even if it’s empty.

When you move your external drive to another computer, if it is not recognized by your Lightroom catalogue you can simply select the root folder in Lightroom and locate it on the disk. All the other folders below this in the hierarchy will then be automatically found.

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