Photo Not found in Lightroom using external hard drive as storage

4 years 4 months ago #666030 by NickSano
I started using external hard drives for storage when uploading photos into  Lightroom.  I just noticed trying to find a photo, that when the hard drive isn't plugged in, the photo can't be found.  Moving forward, do I need to plug in the hard drive and will Lightroom automatically have photos available or will there be something I need to do in order to access it?  

I'm not at home right now, so don't have the hard drive with me.  


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4 years 4 months ago #666055 by Shadowfixer1
Yes, Lightroom will need access to wherever your images are stored. Lightroom will know where to find them when you plug in the external hard drive as long as the computer assigns it the same drive letter each time. If it assigns a different letter to the drive, the easiest thing is to reassign the drive to the correct letter.
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4 years 4 months ago #666057 by garyrhook
You need to have LR build smart previews so that you can work on the images without the drive attached.


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4 years 4 months ago #666078 by Shadowfixer1
There is always the cloud also but I didn't want to get into all the ways you could. Since it was a simple question, I tried to keep he answer simple.
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