LR help again
Oct 30, 2019 11:03:00 #
brian43053
Loc: Buffalo, NY
I'll start from the beginning- I bought a couple external hard drives to back everything up and keep it off my internal hard drive. They were 2TB Toshiba. I'm using them on a MacBook pro with retina display 2013 model. I backed everything up onto those 2 drives including the lrcat file. I formatted them for ex-fat and for awhile they worked fine then all of a sudden nothing.LR will not open because it can't find the lrcat file on the external hard drive. Yet when I plug the same hard drive into a windows based pc it reads everything just fine. I copied all the pics and everything to both hard drives and LR will open through the other drive but it doesn't show me the pics that are copied on it. Near as I can figure i'd have to download the pics again form the 2nd hard drive. Any ideas what's up?
Oct 30, 2019 11:07:57 #
Just to be sure I got this right, you have everything relating to Lightroom on an external drive and you randomly move it back and forth between Apple and Microsoft operating systems?
Oct 30, 2019 12:07:04 #
Oct 30, 2019 12:12:26 #
brian43053
Loc: Buffalo, NY
no - I do not randomly move my hard drives back and forth between a mac and pc. the 2 external hard drives were bought to back up my pics and everything from LR for use on my mac. They were formatted as ex-fat and worked fine on my mac for a couple of weeks - maybe a month. then all of a sudden I got nothing. LR doesn't recognize the drive but if I plug the drive into a windows based pc or laptop I can access everything on the drive.
Oct 30, 2019 12:13:21 #
brian43053
Loc: Buffalo, NY
my mac does not recognize the drive now - it's as if it isn't plugged in.
Oct 30, 2019 12:40:46 #
brian43053
Loc: Buffalo, NY
my MacBook doesn't recognize the hard drive so I can't double click on the lrcat file
Oct 30, 2019 16:14:10 #
Seems more like a hard drive issue than an LR issue to me. Perhaps move all the files off to a different external drive. Reformat drive as specified by company and try a test to see if it works. Or, just use different drives. That's my best guess.
Oct 30, 2019 17:34:06 #
Using a non apple file format could be the problem. The ex-fat file program is usually for switching from Apple to Windows computers and back. Apple recommends either OS extended or APFS as the primary file for formatting hard drives for use with Apple computers since OS Sierra.
Oct 31, 2019 10:44:06 #
brian43053 wrote:
my MacBook doesn't recognize the hard drive so I can't double click on the lrcat file
Use the Mac OS Disk Utility to see if the drive is "mounted" or "unmounted" --- this a Unix term that indicates that the drive is recognized by the operating system.
If it's unmounted just remount the drive again.
Oct 31, 2019 14:59:13 #
Question: Is the USB connected directly to the computer, or are you using a hub/tree? If using a hub/tree, it is entirely possible that there just isn't enough juice in the hub to keep the drive(s) booted up. I had an issue like that, when I bought a powered hub the problem went away. A$30 investment well worth it.
Oct 31, 2019 16:58:32 #
My Lightroom will only open catalog (lrcat) file that's resident on a local/internal drive. The photos can be on any accessible drive/ volume, but my LR catalog must be on an local drive.
Nov 1, 2019 08:18:54 #
brian43053 wrote:
I'll start from the beginning- I bought a couple e... (show quote)
I've been reading recently about the latest ios update causing problems with lightroom. Have you updated to Catalina and, if so, ate you still using an older version of lightroom?
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