lynds123uk
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Hi,
I tend to lurk on the forum rather than contribute, but I wondering whether one of you may be able to help.
I have lightroom 3, and am feeling like I am starting to understand it more than I did, but I'm having a problem I can not figure out the answer to.
My lightroom default to import photos is to my laptop, which 9 times out of 10 I remember to change so that the import goes directly to the external hard drive. There have been a few times I've forgotten, or I've imported photos when I'm not at home so the external hard drive isn't connected and I have about 15 folders of photos sat on my laptop (mac if it makes any difference).
I've been having a bit of a tidy up, and want to move all of the folders onto the external hard drive. For 3 or 4 folders all was going fine, and in lightroom I would create a new folder on the external hard drive, then select all the photos from a folder on the laptop and drag and drop them into the new folder.
I now seem to encountered a problem, and while everything looks like it is happening, nothing seems to happen.The warning box pops up telling me I'm moving a file on the disk, I click move and the progress bar appears top left, but then the bar doesn't move along at all. Previous folders were moving in a few minutes, I left the laptop running last night just asking it to move one photo, and absolutely no progress. I get the same response when I drag and drop whole folders. Interestingly, if I cancel a move (by clicking the x by the progress bar) and try to move the same photo again, I get an error message saying the file already exists at the destination, even though the new folder is showing as having 0 photos inside it.
I have searched the forums and googled and have been unable to come up with an answer, does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong or anything else I could try? I have re-started lightroom, and I'm 90% certain I've restarted the laptop, but I am going to restart it now just to check!
Thanks for your help
I tend to lurk on the forum rather than contribute, but I wondering whether one of you may be able to help.
I have lightroom 3, and am feeling like I am starting to understand it more than I did, but I'm having a problem I can not figure out the answer to.
My lightroom default to import photos is to my laptop, which 9 times out of 10 I remember to change so that the import goes directly to the external hard drive. There have been a few times I've forgotten, or I've imported photos when I'm not at home so the external hard drive isn't connected and I have about 15 folders of photos sat on my laptop (mac if it makes any difference).
I've been having a bit of a tidy up, and want to move all of the folders onto the external hard drive. For 3 or 4 folders all was going fine, and in lightroom I would create a new folder on the external hard drive, then select all the photos from a folder on the laptop and drag and drop them into the new folder.
I now seem to encountered a problem, and while everything looks like it is happening, nothing seems to happen.The warning box pops up telling me I'm moving a file on the disk, I click move and the progress bar appears top left, but then the bar doesn't move along at all. Previous folders were moving in a few minutes, I left the laptop running last night just asking it to move one photo, and absolutely no progress. I get the same response when I drag and drop whole folders. Interestingly, if I cancel a move (by clicking the x by the progress bar) and try to move the same photo again, I get an error message saying the file already exists at the destination, even though the new folder is showing as having 0 photos inside it.
I have searched the forums and googled and have been unable to come up with an answer, does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong or anything else I could try? I have re-started lightroom, and I'm 90% certain I've restarted the laptop, but I am going to restart it now just to check!
Thanks for your help