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1. Create new folders on an external hard drive for mac how to#
2. Create new folders on an external hard drive for mac upgrade#

Lightroom has been designed to be ok not having access to all the negative files all the time. If you are working within the library module (tagging, titles, flagging etc) you don’t need access to the original media. This is why at any point you can go back to your original image using the history palette in the develop module, even if you made the edit years ago. For example, if you desaturate an image the black and white version you see is a temporary preview but if you were to look at the original negative file on your hard drive you would see it would still be in color. Lightroom needs access to the negative files some of the time, like if you want to make edits to a photo (color correction, cropping etc). For the sake of simplicity whenever I refer to the RAW or Jpeg files from the camera I will refer to them as negative files. Lightroom does not alter the JPEG or RAW files that are imported into it from your camera, instead it remembers what changes have been made to images in a database, the advantage of this is that it takes up much less space on your hard drive than RAW file plus an edited photoshop file.

Create new folders on an external hard drive for mac how to#

I have also posted my Five Hidden Tips for Lightroom, Nine More Hidden Tips For Adobe Lightroom 5 and How To Find Instagram Images In Lightroom. If you want to learn more about how to use Lightroom you should take a look at one of my most popular posts: How To Organise Your Lightroom Library. If you follow the tips in this tutorial then, like me, you should not have anymore problems with lost files in Lightroom.

Create new folders on an external hard drive for mac upgrade#

Every time I plug the drive back in I am happy to report that the photos of Chester are safe and present in the library, this all worked even after the upgrade from Lightroom 4 to 5. Users that usually have these problems are working with external drives and to be fair I don’t use Lightroom with external storage as I have a desktop computer with four internal hard drives.Īs a test eight months ago I imported a bunch of Lisa’s photos of Chester the cat to a USB memory stick, sometimes I plug the thumb drive in and other times I leave it unplugged, sometimes for months. I for one have been using Lightroom since the first version six years ago and have never had a problem with unlinked files. This usually comes about by user error and is not a problem with Lightroom itself.

One of the most common complaints I hear about Lightroom is that it looses links to photos.