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Lightroom not recognizing EHD's of same name
I have 2 Lacie EHD's. They are both named the same, my mistake. At one point they were both recognized by LR, but now they are mixed up.
With both turned on, only some of the images on the newer one are recognized, as seen in the
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I can find them in the actual EHD, though, as seen in this next screen shot.

When the new EHD is turned on, but the old one isn't, nothing is recognized, and LR thinks that it's the old one turned on, as seen by the green light next to its' name.
When the old EHD is turned on, but the new one isn't, nothing is recognized, and LR thinks that it's the new one that is turned on, again as seen by the green light.
So LR seems very confused, and so do I! Thanks for any help you've got!
With both turned on, only some of the images on the newer one are recognized, as seen in the
screen shot.
I can find them in the actual EHD, though, as seen in this next screen shot.
When the new EHD is turned on, but the old one isn't, nothing is recognized, and LR thinks that it's the old one turned on, as seen by the green light next to its' name.
When the old EHD is turned on, but the new one isn't, nothing is recognized, and LR thinks that it's the new one that is turned on, again as seen by the green light.
So LR seems very confused, and so do I! Thanks for any help you've got!
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Johan_Elzenga
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You will have to rename one of the disks (that is trivial to do: just click on the name, wait a second or two, then click on it again), then connect both disks at the same time, and see which folders are now shown as missing. These are the folders which are on the renamed disk. You can 'reconnect' these folders by right-clicking on them. Choose 'Find Missing Folder' and navigate to the correct location. Do it with a top folder, that will also reconnect all its subfolders.
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/Volumes/LaCie and /Volumes/LaCie1 means that the names are the same. There is a difference between the way MacOS X stores disk info and how Lightroom does it. MacOS X shows you the name, but internally it uses a unique ID. That is why MacOS X can mount two disks with the same name and not get confused. But Lightroom only uses the disk name, so Lightroom does get confused when two disks have the same name.
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I would expand the two unmounted disks in Lightroom, to see what Lightroom expects on those disks. And I would mount the other LaCie disk, so you can see (in the Finder) what really is on each disk and what is not. That should give you an idea about what folder is on which disk, so you can reconnect folders that are shown as missing in Lightroom.
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tamra_yandow
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Here is a screen shot of the expanded other disks. The top one is good now. The middle one used to house what I had on the new EHD, but now doesn't expect much, apparently.
I'm seriously considering just going to get another EHD (which I've just established I need to, anyway), and re-loading everything.
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And then I clicked on a date, and found this. All the images from that date.
I can't find the parent folder, 2017, though.
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Lightroom shows '2017' as the parent folder of '07-2017', but that one is also missing. The parent folder of '2017' is 'LaCie Porsche Design'. That folder is not missing. So what Lightroom is telling you is that you need to find the '2017' folder and check that it does indeed contain the '2017-07-09' subfolder. Your first screenshot suggests that there are actually three of them: one on 'LaCie', one on 'LaCie Two' and one as subfolder of 'photos go here, 7/17 to'. You have to find out (by looking inside them in the Finder) which one is the correct one and 'reconnect' that one with the 'find missing Folder' menu.
The 'photos go here, 7/17 to' folder is another problem however, especially if that turns out to be the correct parent folder. On the Macintosh, you can use a slash in a folder name. But for Lightroom, a slash in a folder name is an invalid character, because Lightroom uses the slash as a separator in the path. Lightroom will think that a folder called 'photos go here, 7/17 to' is a subfolder called '17 to' that is inside a parent folder called 'photos go here, 7'. Obviously, that will once again lead to missing folders. You must rename this folder before you try to reconnect Lightroom to it!
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You say you can't find the '2017' parent folder, but an earlier screenshot shows that there are actually two of them on the LaCie Two disk! One is inside a folder called 'photos go here'. Isn't that the one? I can't see the contents of that folder because it is collapsed. The second '2017' folder is inside a folder called 'photos go here, 7/17 to'. It does have a '07-2017' folder inside it, but no '2017-07-09' subfolder inside that.
The 'photos go here, 7/17 to' folder name is problem by itself however. On the Macintosh, you can use a slash in a folder name. But for Lightroom, a slash in a folder name is an invalid character, because Lightroom uses the slash as a separator in the path. Lightroom will think that a folder called 'photos go here, 7/17 to' is a subfolder called '17 to' that is inside a parent folder called 'photos go here, 7'. Obviously, that will once again lead to missing folders. You must rename this folder before you try to reconnect Lightroom to it or its subfolder!
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tamra_yandow
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So even if they are on separate disks/EHD's, should I not name something the same? As in, '2017.' So on the old one it's '2017,' but on the new one I should have named it '2017-1' or something like that? Is that partly why I can't find it?
I need to go for now, but will be back to this tomorrow afternoon. I can't thank you enough for your help!!
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