Adobe Lightroom: images on external media

By David Amoyal → Tuesday, May 13, 2014

In "Adobe Lightroom, you can see your original images on an external disk paging. This will save you space, without deleting photos. ...

Adobe Lightroom: images on external media
In "Adobe Lightroom, you can see your original images on an external disk paging. This will save you space, without deleting photos. We show you how to take the pictures page, and you will still have at any time by Lightroom can view.

New images on external media outsource

Lightroom: images outsource Lightroom: images outsource In the Import settings of Adobe Lightroom," an extra storage point for the imported original set. The Smart-previews allow you to access even without that the original files are present.
  1. Open the "Import" Button below the left menu.
  2. To the images without the hard disk, you must first right at the top under "file management", the "Smart-previews" to enable. Put simply check the "Smart to create previews".
  3. The Smart-previews are when you Import now automatically stored in the catalog. Also the location of the catalog can be changed and so on, for example, an external hard drive to be postponed. Adobe Lightroom is without the disk, but then no more data to display.
  4. To the large original files to move, now connect your external disk. Under "target", you can now select a folder for the files. In the default setting, created Lightroom, then the folder for the year, month and the day of admission.
  5. With a click on "Import" restart now to reboot the Import. The Copying of the files, depending on the speed of the external disk take a little longer. The creation of the Smart-previews can be somewhat more time than usual. You should definitely a 3 USB or eSATA hard drive with good speed.
  6. When the Import is complete, you can use the disk from the Computer and disconnect. Adobe Lightroom, you will continue to display your pictures, even though it will no longer have access to the original files. For the development and Export the images needed Lightroom, of course, continue to the large specimens on the external disk.
Existing images on external media outsource
Lightroom: folder outsource Lightroom: folder outsource Well as already existing image can be in a few steps to an external disk will be outsourced:
  1. Look in the "Finder" or "Explorer" for the location of your images on the hard disk.
  2. Then copy the folder to the desired new location. If you have the same import settings (for example, the folder for the year, month, day), you can simply place the whole folder in the parent directory on the external disk copy.
  3. With a right-click in the Overview "folders" on the newly copied folder, select the folder location update". In this menu you can select the new location. If the hard drive has changed, the folder after a short time in the Overview of the other hard drive.
  4. Finally, you can still have the old folder on the hard disk, because the data is already in a different location to be backed up.
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