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Background: I was in the process of moving my catalogs to a new external HD via lightroom, it was going slow but working properly. I got an alert from my Time Machine that my external was almost full and I need to make space for a back up to occur. I moved the Time Machine back up to take place on my NEW (formatted for mac) HD. Since this took place (the Time Machine Backups are not on the NEW external HD) all of my catalogs on my old external HD are showing the files as missing when opened in LR4 and they are light grey or not illuminated-not sure of the proper term but I hope this is clear. I attempted the synchronize troubleshoot but the "synchronize" option was not in illuminated as an option. I looked at renaming the HD with the same letter, but I believe that applies to PC's and not Mac.
Any help in navigating this would be most appreciative.
Heidi

So I right clicked/control on the top folder and this is the list of options that populated
Find Missing Folder...
Remove...
Hide This Parent Folder
Show Parent Folder
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Id                      : 1960
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Total files wrong volume: 0
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Id                      : 147268
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Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
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Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 1971
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Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
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Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 940
Path used by PSE        : []
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Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
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Serial                  : 285C-70EE
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 810
Path used by PSE        : [Fam-Friends #3 - Family & Friends]
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Total files             : 242
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : Fam-Friends #3 - Family & Friends
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Id                      : 1849
Path used by PSE        : [Travel 1 - Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico]
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Total files             : 743
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
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Path used by PSE        : [Travel #3 - CO, WY]
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Total files             : 1305
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : Travel #3 - CO, WY
Serial                  : B28F-7B23
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 1918
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D:     readonly_drive   0000-0000
E:     builtin_drive    8FFB-6809
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J:     builtin_drive    7C43-3A8E
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L:     builtin_drive    683E-2341
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