Generating previews all over again for filmstrip/library view?
I'm in the process of upgrading to LR2, and when I was asked about my catalog location, I decided to move it to my photo drive (since my C: drive is close to being out of space.) Unfortunately, this blew away all of my thumbnails so that every time I scroll through my 14,000 photos, there is nothing but gray boxes until I sit in one spot long enough to load up the previews on that page (which can sometimes take a full 20 seconds.) Very inconvenient.
Yesterday, I selected my whole collection, and performed a Library>Previews>Render Standard sized, but it didn't help.
Is there a way to force LR to render new thumbnails for my whole collection? There's no way I'm going to scroll through over 10,000 photo a page at a time to wait for each page to generate previews.
Fodao,
>(I was actually warned that this would happen by LR, but I figured I'd be able to manually force a refresh of all the thumbnails.)
Earlier you wrote that you moved the photos. Now you say it was the catalog. Which was it??????
For the former, the link to the original photos was broken when you moved the catalog and preview files. This is easily fixed - right click (Windows) or Ctrl+click (Mac) the top level folder and choose "Update folder location"
If the latter, and all that you did was move the Catalog and Preview files to a new disk it shouldn't need to update the previews.
In future, try to be consistent and accurate with the info you provide or chances are that the advice you are given isn't what you need.
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