Slight problem with Lightroom 3

[Pete Gl]

I store a lot of my photos on an external HDD, after I disconnect, then reconnect my HDD, Lightroom 3 is not "seeing" the photo's, the directory structure is all there, but all the individual directories have 0 next to them. I have to right click and "synchronise folder" and they come back, but surely I don't have to do this every time I disconnect and reconnect my HDD, I didn't have to do it in LR2.

Thanks for any help

Pete

 

[ianbarber]

In theory as soon as you connect your external hard drive, within a few seconds (maybe 10) lightroom should recognise it is now online and start to re populate all your folders.

If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7 you could try Right clicking on the Lightroom icon and selecting "Run as Administrator" from the context menu

 

[Pete Gl]

That's exactly what used to happen in LR2.

I've got Vista, I'll give that a try, thanks Ian.

Pete

 

[Pete Gl]

Thanks Ian, that's worked.

Pete

 

[Pete Gl]

Well, I thought it had worked, but I think I've spotted what the problem is. It's because sometimes the external drive pops up as E: drive, and other times it pops up as F: drive.

So, i know this is more of a question for the computer section, but, when I plug in an external drive, can I tell the computer which letter I want the drive allocated to?

(Yes, assuming that letter is not already used).

Pete

 

[Bigdeaks]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/chdrlettervista.htm

Yes you can. And if you set it to a letter that will not be assigned as a default to other devices (memory cards, other hdds) say N: then it should default to this every time you plug it in, avoiding the problem you describe.

 

[cowasaki]

I actually have my light room images and setup folder on the network so this can sometimes happen.

 

[Pete Gl]

Brilliant! many thanks bigdeaks.

Odd though that I've only had this snag since moving to LR3.

Pete