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Sometimes we start working with our photos and start to outgrow the hard drive we started with and add new ones as they fill up. Soon you can find yourself in a mess of drives and unclear as to where any of your photos are. The following procedures are for consolidating your photos in Lightroom which are residing on multiple hard drives in to a single hard drive and eliminating any missing photos in your Lightroom catalog. To perform this task you will need to have all your hard drives containing your photos connected, a newly formatted hard drive large enough to accommodate all your photographs and room for future photos, and know where your current Catalog is on your drive.

The location of your Catalog can be found by going to the Lightroom menu (Edit menu on a PC) and choosing Catalog Settings. In the General tab you can find the location of the Catalog under Location. Click on the Show button to have Lightroom open the folder on your desktop.

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1. Make sure all your drives containing all your photos and the new hard drive which we will be moving and consolidating them to are connected to your computer before launching Lightroom (LR).

2. Launch LR, and while in the Library Module, go to the Folders panel on the left and check that all the connected hard drives are listed and recognized by LR. All the connected hard drives will be listed in the Folders panel and the name will be in light gray like the one shown in the picture below. If the hard drive is not connected or recognized by LR the name will be in dark gray. Now that all the drives are connected, were going to import any photos on the hard drives that are not currently in the LR Catalog.

3. Go to the File menu and choose Import Photos and Videos which opens the Import window. You can also click on the Import button at the bottom of the left panel while in the LibraryModule.

4. In the Import window, go to the Source panel on the left side, click on the triangle next to the hard drive name to reveal the enclosing folders. You can select any folder in list but LR will show you every image in all the enclosing folders not currently in the catalog. If you know the specific folders your photos reside in its best to navigate to those specific folders or select multiple folders in the list by shift-clicking on the folders. If you are importing a lot of photos you may want to import them in chunks so LR doesn’t crash or freeze in the process. Hp 6715b drivers.

5. In the center Preview window of the Import window LR will highlight and check any missing photos automatically that are not in the Catalog. All the grayed out photos in the Preview area are photos that already exist in the LR Catalog and cannot be selected. Check all the boxes for each photo you would like to import to LR. At the top of the Import window you should select Add for the Import Options. Be sure to un-check the box labeled Don’t Import Suspected Duplicates in the File Handling panel on the right side of the window.

6. Once you have the boxes checked in the upper left of all the photos you would like to import, you can then click on the Import button at the bottom right of the window. LR will now import all the selected photos in to the Catalog.

7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each drive until all photos have been imported in to the LR Catalog.

Removing Missing Photos and Consolidating

Now that we have all possible photos imported in to LR from all the connected drives we will eliminate the missing photos from the Catalog then consolidate all the photos in the Catalog to one drive. By importing all the available photos LR will apply any develop settings to any duplicate new files with the same name that were imported but it will keep a copy of the original Missing Photographs in the Catalog. We can now delete all the Missing Photographs now that we have everything imported.

8. In the Library module, view your photos in Grid view by tapping the G key or clicking on the Grid icon in the Tool Bar. Go to the Catalog panel on the left side and click on Missing Photographs. (see graphic below) This filters and shows all the missing photos in the LR Catalog in the Preview window . Select all the photos in the Preview window with Command-A (Control-A on a PC). Go to the Photo menu and choose Remove Photos from Catalog. Once deleted, there should be no missing photos in the Catalog panel.

9. Now click on All Photographs in the Catalog panel.

10. Now go to the File menu and choose Export as Catalog.

11. In the Save As box, type in a name for your new Catalog. Make it something unique so you will recognize it if you see it on your hard drive like Your Name’s Master Catalog.

12. In the Where drop down menu, choose a location on your new empty hard drive where all your photos will be moving to.

13. Uncheck Export selected photos only. You can verify all photos will be exported with the number listed just above it.

14. Check the box for Export negative files. Negatives are what LR calls your original photos. Checking this will transfer all the original photo files to the new drive.

15. Check the box for Include available previews. This is not mandatory but if you do not check this you will have to build new previews for your entire Catalog and it can possibly take a long time.

16. Now click on the Export Catalog button and LR will start transferring all your photos. This may take a while depending on the size of your Catalog, the speed of your computer, and the speed of the connection between the hard drives and your computer. You can see a progress bar in the upper left of the LR program window. When it is complete, quit the LR program.

Lightroom Catalog files

On your new hard drive you will see the new Catalog files and all your photos in the residi