Lightroom recognition of folder source

Recently I copied a large number of TIF and JPEG photos from 6 different EHDs into my HP Personal EHD that slips easily into the computer bay. In this way I had hoped to have all of these phtotos easily accessible and recognizable using LR 2.1 rather than having them reported as "photo missing or offline." I then started trying to import them into LR so that LR would know that those files were on this drive. But I continue to get the comment that "this file is already in a catalog" and yet when I try to have LR import it from this drive I get blanks and comments "image is missing or offline." If I right click on a missing image or folder I do not get an option to find the missing folder or photo. So what do I do to get LR to recognize that all of these folders and photos are now in one HD?

No, I never did get a response. I did learn that I had to import each
folder from the EHD into LR and ultimately they were all recognized.
jdm

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My experience with the trial version of lightroom is very positive in terms of the convenient and powerful capabilities for editing images and the associated metadata. But I can't find a way to save the "develop" edits to images into the source file for the photo I am working with. So far, I am able to save the metadata into the file but not the image editing. From what I read, I fear this is not possible without silly round about exporting to new files then copying / moving multiple copies around, etc. Without this ability, I am pretty sure I will not purchase lightroom and will miss out on all the powerful features. Without an OPTION that turns on the equivalent of a SAVE button, managing my photos collection would be a nightmare.
So my question is: How do I save the edited (i.e., developed) version of a photo back into the same file where the original photo was stored?
Please, please spare me all the reponses telling me how stupid I am for wanting to do this and that the cognisenti and professionals would NEVER do this. But please just tell me there is a secret place to turn on this option in lightroom.
Thanks in advance.

I had the same requirement to save in JPEGs files all non-metadata edits performed in Lightroom, in order to share modified pictures without duplicating files. By the way, I think it’s going to be more and more required by casual Lightroom users, as people get used to instant photo sharing in many situations where quantity matters more than quality
Here’s a nearly automatic (at least, scalable) solution that works, although it slightly lowers the quality by re-compressing the original pictures.
Once for all:
Download and install the wonderful Lightroom plugin “jf Run Any Command”, provided as donationware by Jeffrey Friedl here: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/run-any-command. This “export filter” plugin allows you to run a command of your choice with each exported file, as part of the export while it’s going on. (You may also browse Jeffrey’s blog to find many other useful and beautiful things.)
In Lightroom, pre-define an export settings as follows:
Export to the hard drive, to the original picture folder, without adding the exported file to the catalog
Name the exported file “EXPORTED-{Filename}” (or anything different from the original file name)
JPEG format, 76% quality (see An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings at http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/jpeg-quality)
Keep all metadata
Here’s the interesting part, the Run Any Command settings:
Command to execute for each exported picture: copy "{FILE}" "{Path}\{LIBRARYFILENAME}" (this replaces the original file with a copy of the exported file)
Command to execute upon export completion: del {FILES} (this deletes all exported files).
NB: One could wonder why not directly export with the original file name and silently replace the original files (I believe Lightroom would allow this). It’s just a matter of error handling: in case the export goes wrong, no original file is changed at all.
The easy part: each time you want to save edits:
In Lightroom, select the pictures to save, and export them with the pre-defined settings. You're almost done. The JPEG files are ok, but inside Lightroom you see the modification effects doubled, as their specifications remain in the catalog database and they apply on modified JPEG instead of the original files.
While the entire set of "saved" pictures is still selected, in the Develop module switch Autosync on and click Reinit to erase all modification specifications from the catalog for all pictures, then press CTRL-S to write down to disk any metadata updated by Lightroom -and accept if required to confirm that Lightroom values should replace externally set values.
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Help! Can I recover my Lightroom edits after renaming source folders and re-syncing?

My source files were a mess, so I went in and roughly organized them, creating folders and grouping them by type. I figured I could just re-link the offline files back in LR.
In Lightroom, I right-clicked on my root photo folder and chose "Syncronize Folder" - what I didn't realize is that it seems to have deleted what I had and reimported it again. So my problem is that all my Lightroom edits on these files are now gone. All I have are raw, untouched pics.
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Hello,
If you have your backups then you still have all your edits included in the xmp files. Now all you have to do is to match the actual files with their edits (xmp files).
I`m afraid you`ll have to do it manually because since you radically changed your structure by creating folders and subfolders using the Mac OS instead of doing it from within Ligthroom (you know you can do that from Lightroo, don`t you?).
For example, let`s say you have a file named "_MG_8111.CR2" which looks like it`s untouched now. If you can find its own xmp file named "_MG_8111.xmp" in your backup, just copy it to the same folder with "_MG_8111.CR2".
If you open Lightroom and syncronize the folder again your edits will be visible again. I would suggest to try it first with one or two images and when you`re positive everything is OK continue with all the other ones.
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Reg:Folder Source in Admin

Hi
I have a question, In a Business Area i want create two folders F1 and F2.
For F1 the source will be a database table on which i have logged on now.
My question is "Can i specify/select a table as source for folder F2 which is coming from different Database with some DB link in Discoverer ?" I am using 10.2.X.X version.
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1. Create a dummy folder in your business area that points to a known object in the local database. Make sure also that you have only one item in the folder.
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20. From the list of objects, select the object you want to import, and then click OK.
21. The final settings on the Folder Properties dialog box should now have the correct settings.
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26. The origina named item in your folder may or may not be available. If it exists in the new table you are fine. If it does not exist you will see it flagged as being unavailable. If Discoverer does flag it as being unavailable you need to check the box alongside.
27. To complete the refresh, click OK. Discoverer will refresh the folder and it will now be available for use within your business area.
I hope this helps
Best wishes
Michael Armstrong-Smith
URL: http://learndiscoverer.com
Blog: http://learndiscoverer.blogspot.com

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The Lightroom catalog cannot be used because the parent folder “/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2014-09-25-102018/Macintosh HD/Users/jules/Documents/Backups/2014-09-19 1324” does not allow files to be created within it.
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If files are added or moved into the folder tree, you have to tell Lightroom to look again for new files for each folder. Lightroom currently has only one "watched" folder.
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Thanks for your post and sorry you're also experience this two-folders-in-LR but only-one-at-the-Finder-level problem.
It looks like I've finally solved this problem, but I suspect I did so the hard way ... if I even understand where in the process things were fixed. As previously posted, when I tried to "move" one folder in LR into the other, LR got confused and deleted the entire contents of one of them! This was the existing one I had been using. Thousands of photos gone! I searched the hard drive and even used disk recovery software but, no, they had vanished. I luckily retrieved these photos from a backup drive, so that's good, but it makes one nervous to fiddle around with this particular problem.
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