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Lighroom issue

LRussoPhotoLRussoPhoto Registered Users Posts: 458 Major grins
edited May 25, 2012 in Finishing School
Having a problem opening my lightroom catalog on my portable drive. The drive is brand new, udloaded all my images to it from another drive and it was fine. The last time I uploaded photos to this new drive it started uploading very slow, took much longer then it should have to upload not that many images. After the upload was done, i tried to start editing and either the drive or lightroom loacked up. I couldnt even eject the drive from my mac. I had to unplug it without ejecting. Now when I try to open the catalog on the portable drive it says the catalog is being used my another application and connot open. I get this message when I try to open it from my mac and pc. What do I do?
D300s D90
Nikon 18-105mm,Nikon 18-200mm,Sigma 24-70mm f2.8, Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8

http://LouRusso.SmugMug.com

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    arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited May 15, 2012
    Run disk utilty, maybe reformat.
    Andrew Rodney
    Author "Color Management for Photographers"
    http://www.digitaldog.net/
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    LRussoPhotoLRussoPhoto Registered Users Posts: 458 Major grins
    edited May 15, 2012
    Then ill have to reload all the images though right?
    D300s D90
    Nikon 18-105mm,Nikon 18-200mm,Sigma 24-70mm f2.8, Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8

    http://LouRusso.SmugMug.com
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    arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited May 15, 2012
    QuadRacer041 wrote: »
    Then ill have to reload all the images though right?

    Yes. Hopefully you have a back up on another drive. Otherwise clone (backup) everting on this suspect drive first. Hopefully the data is OK.
    Andrew Rodney
    Author "Color Management for Photographers"
    http://www.digitaldog.net/
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    MarkRMarkR Registered Users Posts: 2,099 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2012
    Data isn't data unless it exists in at least 3 locations, one of which is offsite. Learn and live this mantra! (I almost learned this the very hard way.

    So you have your data, your backup (external harddrive), and your offsite location. (I use crashplan. THere are other services.)
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    basfltbasflt Registered Users Posts: 1,882 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2012
    my guess its the drive itself

    is it visible in My Computer ?
    if so , right-click it / properties / tools-tap / check for errors
    Bas

    /ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
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