Alan321 Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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If you do have a copy of the "original" catalogue file then you should still be able to use it if when you copied the images from C: to D: you did not change the folder structure that holds those images. Just double click on it and Lr will open it and find 35,000 missing files. Right click on the top-most folder that is missing and select find missing files. Tell it where the new folder is (on D. All of the previews and edits will be available.
Normally you should only relocate part of your image collection or rearrange its structure from within Lr, but when you have to move it all you can do so outside Lr and find the missing files later. If you mess with the structure or shift odd files from here, there and everywhere then you will spend ages telling Lr where those missing files are.
If you no longer have a viable copy of that original Lr catalogue then you are out of luck. You might, however, be able to restore a lot of edits from .xmp files and/or metadata stored in the image files - but probably not if you've already messed with them.
If all is lost then you'll have to start from scratch. Do yourself a favour and do just that - do not spend time and anguish trying to precisely duplicate previous edits. Just treat each image as if it was a brand new one with no history and edit it accordingly. It will be far less frustrating this way.
In terms of improving Lr performance, I suggest that you install a second drive and transfer the image files to that. Having them on a second volume/partition on the same drive that holds C: may well slow slow things down by causing the drive read/write heads to travel greater distances to and fro between C: and D:. That is one of the slowest things that a HDD can do.
I would put nothing on the cloud. I don't like it. I don't trust it. And my stuff is for me. Plus it can be expensive in terms of internet bandwidth, depending on your plan and your ISP.
- Alan
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