LR2 Metedata 'gone with the wind' (?)

redhalton

I've just taken a leap of faith and moved my images onto an external drive '15k' images. I was very careful and thought I had done everything correct. My external drive and folders show up in LR2, but none of the metadata carried over. What did I miss?

The second part to this question--now that I'm moving my images to my external HD to free up space on my desk top HD, what's the point on import of doing a back up on the same drive? If I lose my external HD, the back up is gone as well. I dunno--it would make more sense to me to purchase yet another external HD and back up to this drive.

I'm confused ;-))

redhalton

UPDATE--the metadata did carryover, it's the keywords which didn't.

pathfinder

redhalton wrote:

I've just taken a leap of faith and moved my images onto an external drive '15k' images. I was very careful and thought I had done everything correct. My external drive and folders show up in LR2, but none of the metadata carried over. What did I miss?

The second part to this question--now that I'm moving my images to my external HD to free up space on my desk top HD, what's the point on import of doing a back up on the same drive? If I lose my external HD, the back up is gone as well. I dunno--it would make more sense to me to purchase yet another external HD and back up to this drive.

I'm confused ;-))

I recommend a second external hard drive. Get all you data off your main hard drive. If your computer has room for a 2nd internal drive you can use one there, partitioned as 2 drives, so you have one for data, and a scratch drive for Photoshop if you run Photoshop.

Thunder Rabbit

Howdy.

Go look at this. It is an Adobe Support response. It's about missing keywords, and is not the same situation as yours, but it might be helpful, none the less.

Good luck.