Dbrogers wrote:
Good morning, I recently had a WD USB external HD crash ( this is the second one in two years). The steps that I use to get my photos into Lightroom is download them on my external HD and then add them into LR. I purchased a new external HD to start over, put can’t remember exactly how to get LR to see my external HD once I open LR. I was wondering if anyone has a good YouTube video that shows the steps how LR recognizes my external HD? I have a Mac desktop. I’d appreciate any help.
If you are using My Book or My Passport or any other sort of mfgr-packaged external hard drive solution you are wasting your money. Buy an enterprise/datacenter-quality drive - and put it into a fan-vented case (Rosewill- $35) - You'll get a drive with a 5 yr warranty and you can stop buying sleep aids.
As far as transferring your data from one drive to another, copy the files, using the parent folder (not individual folders) from one drive to the next. Open Lightroom - and your top level or parent folder will have a question mark on it - right click and tell LR to go find your files, which will open Finder and you'll be able to point LR to that drive.