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I rarely post here. Can't remember the last time. But today I have a reason ... a very GOOD reason.
A couple of days ago I copied all of my files, including my Lightroom Catalogs and Previews, to a new hard drive. No big deal. I've done it many times over the years. Yesterday, for some reason or another, I decided to change the Window Views on my Mac from "None" to "Arrange by Date Modified." I did this on my main boot-up drive as well as all external drives ... a total of about 185,000 images spread across roughly 8TB.
Yeah ... experienced ones know what happened. All of the files and folders in my Lightroom Catalogs had the dreaded question mark. It took me hours and hours and hours to realize what changing the Views had done, i.e. it changed the file path for all those files, making it impossible for Lightroom to find them. Actually, I woke up in the middle of the night last night and said to myself, "Hey ... maybe I should change the Views Option back to where it was."
File Path! Remember those two words at all times.
- Steve
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