Lightroom in not showing my Macs hard drive
I am opening lightroom and wanting to catalog the images on my mac hard drive and move them onto an external drive, but the mac drive is not showing in Lightroom
Have the images on the Mac hard drive been imported into Lightroom?
To expand on that question, Lightroom is not a typical file browser that shows everything on your hard drive. Files must be imported into Lightroom. That import process doesn't really move the images anywhere. It simply shows Lightroom where they are located, and then keeps track of all the adjustments made to those images. If the images haven't been imported into Lightroom yet then you would be wise to move them to the external hard drive first and organize them. Then you can import and everything will be organized in Lightroom.
I apologize if I have misunderstood your question.
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