Lightroom is not seeing new external hard drives

nikonpup

nikonpup

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i have to many photos on my hard drive i need to move them to a new external hard drive.
When i look in the lightroom i do not see the external hard dives. I have loaded some
photos on the drives since lightroom does not recognize non photo files. I do not see
the drives e: And f: Just c: Drive. I am not seeing an answer in google or adobe.
Suggestions please. Thanks.
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Dawg Pics

Dawg Pics

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I can't answer your question, but is the new external easy to use? I have a Seagate Personal Cloud that I haven't been able to access when I changed computers. I have to connect it to my old computer. I am sure it is fixable, but it is kind of a pain. It also changed the dates on all of my images :p.
 
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mikew_RIP

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Dawg Pics said:
I can't answer your question, but is the new external easy to use? I have a Seagate Personal Cloud that I haven't been able to access when I changed computers. I have to connect it to my old computer. I am sure it is fixable, but it is kind of a pain. It also changed the dates on all of my images :p.
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In photoshop i just click open then scroll down to my back up disc

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nikonpup

nikonpup

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dates: go to folder with photos - click to get details - dates - if you right click you should get a box with a list of details - if you click "more"
you should get this box 8.JPG
go down to date taken and select it - you should also be able to remove date modified
 
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nickt

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nikonpup said:

i have to many photos on my hard drive i need to move them to a new external hard drive.
When i look in the lightroom i do not see the external hard dives. I have loaded some
photos on the drives since lightroom does not recognize non photo files. I do not see
the drives e: And f: Just c: Drive. I am not seeing an answer in google or adobe.
Suggestions please. Thanks.
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In Lightroom, go to Library on the menu. Select new folder. From there you should be able to see your external and select a folder or create a new folder. Once you do that you will see the drive on your main screen and the folder(s) that you selected or created. I need to do this too in the near future.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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nikonpup said:
i have to many photos on my hard drive i need to move them to a new external hard drive.
When i look in the lightroom i do not see the external hard dives. I have loaded some
photos on the drives since lightroom does not recognize non photo files. I do not see
the drives e: And f: Just c: Drive. I am not seeing an answer in google or adobe.
Suggestions please. Thanks.
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I'm not a big LR user but this should get you where you want to go...

From the Develop module Navigator panel click on the little "+" sign to the right of "Folders" and then on "Add Folder". A new Windows Explorer window will open. Navigate to the drive you want to add and click on "Select Folder" then on the "Include Subfolders" button and follow the prompts from there.
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