Lightroom doesn't remember locations of files on external hard drive

Hey everyone,
I have a lot of my files on an external hard drive that's connected through my WiFi to my computer, and I have it in "Folders" but Lightroom can never find it when I open the program.
Anyone have any clue how to fix this?
You have to kind of "Log In" to the hard drive, so maybe that's it?
Thanks in advance
- J

This is a Mac OS X Networking problem. It really has nothing to do with Lightroom. OS X is loosing the connection to the external drive or the drive is going to sleep.
Before opening LR open a Finder window and make sure that networked external is seen, and can be accessed, in Finder. Once you do that when LR opens it should have a problem seeing the drive and displaying your images properly, No ? mark or grayed out status.

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