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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 410078" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>Let me make sure I understand your situation: You have your photos on your laptop hard drive and use Time Machine to create backups of your laptop hard drive on an external hard drive. The problem is there are several folders with your photos in them on your external hard drive because Time Machine has created multiple backups created at different times. Generally speaking you just want to keep your photos on the external hard drive to free up space on your laptop hard drive but Lightroom will want to catalog everything, including your numerous backup folders.</p><p></p><p>If I understand everything correctly my question would be... How practical would it be to have the hard drive in your laptop upgraded to a larger one? An upgrade like that is very routine and would solve the problem easily. The old hard drive can be copied to the new hard drive so all your software installs would still be there; it would be EXACTLY like your old computer, but with a lot more room to store photos. If that is not practical then things do get more complicated. In all honesty this points to one of the reasons I do not use Lightroom; it's cataloging function is both one of its best AND worst features and, quite frankly, is not designed to handle the needs of a professional photographer.</p><p></p><p>I suppose another option would be to use a second external hard drive -- call it Drive 2, while your Time Machine backup drive we'll refer to now as Drive 1. </p><p></p><p>Drive 1 would be used for backups only. If you wanted, it could be connected to your laptop only when you perform a backup of your laptop hard drive. Or, you could leave it connected all the time if Time Machine is set up to incremental backups but that's up to you; I don't know how you schedule your backups. Either way Drive 2 wold be used to store your photos, and nothing else, which frees up space on your laptop hard drive. </p><p></p><p>I fully admit this is not an elegant solution... The elegant solution would be to upgrade your laptops existing hard drive.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 410078, member: 13090"] Let me make sure I understand your situation: You have your photos on your laptop hard drive and use Time Machine to create backups of your laptop hard drive on an external hard drive. The problem is there are several folders with your photos in them on your external hard drive because Time Machine has created multiple backups created at different times. Generally speaking you just want to keep your photos on the external hard drive to free up space on your laptop hard drive but Lightroom will want to catalog everything, including your numerous backup folders. If I understand everything correctly my question would be... How practical would it be to have the hard drive in your laptop upgraded to a larger one? An upgrade like that is very routine and would solve the problem easily. The old hard drive can be copied to the new hard drive so all your software installs would still be there; it would be EXACTLY like your old computer, but with a lot more room to store photos. If that is not practical then things do get more complicated. In all honesty this points to one of the reasons I do not use Lightroom; it's cataloging function is both one of its best AND worst features and, quite frankly, is not designed to handle the needs of a professional photographer. I suppose another option would be to use a second external hard drive -- call it Drive 2, while your Time Machine backup drive we'll refer to now as Drive 1. Drive 1 would be used for backups only. If you wanted, it could be connected to your laptop only when you perform a backup of your laptop hard drive. Or, you could leave it connected all the time if Time Machine is set up to incremental backups but that's up to you; I don't know how you schedule your backups. Either way Drive 2 wold be used to store your photos, and nothing else, which frees up space on your laptop hard drive. I fully admit this is not an elegant solution... The elegant solution would be to upgrade your laptops existing hard drive. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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