Changed Drive Name?

I have an external drive that until recently, was drive (E:). My computer now reads it as drive (F:). The Light Room catalog still knows the drive as (E:), so all of the pictures now show up as Offline or Missing. How do I get the pictures back without importing them again?

twenty_one wrote:
Change the drive letter back. Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management.
Just one comment here: if the drive letter remains / reverts / is assigned to E:, then there will be an unpredictable likelihood on future occasions, that some other device may have first grabbed that drive letter as an automatic assignment, before this particular external drive will have had a chance to claim it - as has probably happened here.
Something else - USB key, phone, card reader, other drive, whatever that is connected when this drive is not there, will not know to leave E: clear and unused. You are only setting the "first choice" that the drive in question will ask for in cases where nothing else already has that.
Two drives can never share the same letter, and if something else is currently E:, it is not currrently possible to set this drive to that.
So my suggestion would be, not to change this back to E:, but instead to some drive letter much further on through the alphabet - all the way up to Z: is available. Then, re-link the images onto the drive at that new more.. exclusive address, following ssprengel's method in post 2.

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Steven Shmerler wrote:
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NO! Never move, change, or delete TM backups via the Finder. You can hopelessly corrupt your backups.
But you can delete all backups of selected items, via Time Machine. See #12 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
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If I set TM to ignore "Backup" and "Snow" in Sys Prefs and include "Mac Pro HD" will TM start backing up my one drive as of now and have a space in time to 10/19?
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I bet I won't be able to access the old "Main HD" files via TM, but I'd at least be able to access them via finder if I ever find I need something and I'll do it manually.
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