Michael-IIIf Posted October 13, 2009 Share #1 Posted October 13, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am about to upgrade my main drive which contains all my photos, my apps and my LightRoom Catalogue. I intend using Carbon Copy Cloner to do the move which has worked a treat for this task in the past. However those were the days before I used LightRoom. Does anyone have experience with LightRoom when it's moved to a new disc? Does it automatically understand it now lives on a new disc or do I have to reimport all the thousands of photos [heaven forbid] into its catalogue? tia Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shootist Posted October 14, 2009 Share #2 Posted October 14, 2009 If you have or make the same number of partitions, whether 1 or more, on the new drive you shouldn't have any problem with the LR catalog. If you are going to use some type of cloning or imaging program to copy the original disk and place it on the new disk everything on the new disk "should" be in the exact same place on the new drive as it was on the old. Now we get into whether the new drive is bigger then the old. If it is most of these cloning/imaging program will create whatever number of partitions and at the same sizes you have on the old drive on the new drive. You will then be left with some unallocated space on the new. Most of these program can't be used to combine that unallocated space into one of the partitions so you will need some other type of program to do that to get full use of all the space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted October 19, 2009 For the record it works seamlessly. Popped a new drive in the G5, cloned the old drive onto it, rebooted from the new drive and LightRoom works as before. All links, previews, Collections, Adjustments etc preserved. So far the only app which won't play ball is PhotoShop which is telling me "unable to initialize because couldn't find disk". I think re-running the installer is needed here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted October 19, 2009 So far the only app which won't play ball is PhotoShop which is telling me "unable to initialize because couldn't find disk". I think re-running the installer is needed here. The answer turned out to be even easy:- From Adobe's web site........ "You recently changed your primary scratch disk volume in Photoshop Preferences from your startup hard disk to another hard disk . Solution: Ignore the volume's ownership. 1. Quit Photoshop. 2. In the Finder, open the secondary hard disk that you set the scratch disk to. 3. Choose File > Get Info. 4. Select "Ignore ownership on this volume." 5. Close Get Info. 6. Reopen Photoshop." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted October 20, 2009 Share #5 Posted October 20, 2009 Michael-- Thanks for keeping us posted! It's a task I'll likely soon be facing as well, and I'm glad you were able to troubleshoot it for the rest of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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