Tell LR where new file location is?

I moved all my photo files and know how to manually locate each file, but is there a way of telling LR the new location of all the files in one go? It keeps on automatically looking for the old location.

Do the relinking at the folder level, not on individual files. If you moved all your photo files, then ALL the folders in the Folders Panel should have the "?" mark....so right-click (ctrl-click on Mac) on the highest level folder in the Folders Panel, select "Find Missing Folder", point to the same folder in its new location. If you have a single parent folder, you're done. If you have more, rinse and repeat.

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Hi SouthMountainSound,
It sounds like the tracks may be missing from your iTunes library. When tracks in iTunes display a it means the file cannot be located; it may have been moved or deleted. If it cannot be located, this may cause the issue of not being copied to your iPod. For this issue, we will need to refer to the following article:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
Alternatively, if your media was downloaded from the iTunes Store, you may be able to download it again free of charge:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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Trying to move my iTunes Music and other media from the main drive on my pc to an external hard drive but iTunes is not recognizing the new file location? Ideas?

Trying to move my iTunes Music and other media from the main drive on my pc to an external hard drive but iTunes is not recognizing the new file location? Ideas?

Hello there, Underwriter.
The following Knowledge Base article provides in-depth instructions on how to migrate your content to an external drive:
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
Particularly of note for your situation:
External drive
This option requires more work than Home Sharing, but it creates a backup of your iTunes library on the external drive in addition to moving your content.
Notes before you start:
You can use most iPods as an external drive.
Windows operating systems don't recognize Mac OS-formatted disks (HFS or HFS Plus formats). Because of this, you can't use a Mac-formatted iPod or external drive to move your music to a Windows PC. See iPod: How to determine iPod's hard disk format if you're not sure how your iPod is formatted.
Mac OS X can read Windows-formatted iPods and drives. This means there are many ways to migrate your information from your old Windows-based PC to your new Mac.
Mac OS X: To be sure external drives appear on your desktop, choose Preferences from the Finder menu. Be sure the options for "External disks" and "Hard disks" are enabled.
Part 1: Locating and consolidating the iTunes Media folder
Part 2: Copy iTunes folder from the old computer:
Part 3: Get iTunes ready on your new computer
Part 4: Back up any music that's already on your new computer
Part 5: Copy music to your new computer
Part 6: Add preexisting music that was on the new computer back into the library
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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hiya!
this resource might be helpful:
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love, b

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this(25,"farting");
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super(acct,first);
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setFirstName(padName(file) );
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Chris,
i have posted a response on the JDeveloper forum which says:
The file will be created with a root of $ORACLE_HOME ifthe filename is not
an absolute path. The writer must have the proper permissions to write the
file. All subdirectories, if any in the path name, must exist or an
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Hello Professionals:
I have created an oracle trigger on a table on insert that passes the column contents to a java procedure that is intended to write this data to a RandomAccessFile. I am not sure where the file will be created on the Server. I created my java classes on an Oracle 8.1.6 database. My java class (and procedure) that writes the data to the file is indicated below. Your guidance is needed. Thanks. I am logged into the database as teh schema owner of the table and java classes.
Chris
package mypackage1;
import java.io.*;
public class AddData
public static void TriggerData(int v_id, String v_name)
Record blank;
String fileName = "TriggerData20.dat";
blank = new Record(v_id,v_name);
try {
RandomAccessFile file = new RandomAccessFile(fileName, "rw");
file.seek(file.length());
System.out.println("Just getting ready to write to file");
blank.write(file);
System.out.println("Just written data to file");
System.exit(0);
catch (IOException e){
System.out.println("This is not a valid file");
System.exit(1);
public static void main(String[] args)
AddRecord addRecord = new AddRecord();
// A class that represents one record of information.
package mypackage1;
import java.io.Serializable;
public class AccountRecord implements Serializable
private int account;
private String firstName;
public AccountRecord()
this(0,"");
public AccountRecord(int acct, String first)
setAccount(acct);
setFirstName(first);
public void setAccount(int acct)
account = acct;
public int getAccount(){return account;}
public void setFirstName(String first)
firstName = first;
public String getFirstName(){return firstName;}
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//This class will be wrapped as a procedure to call in the Oracle Trigger;
//Two or more values will be passed into the method call Record(xx,xx,etc) from the Oracle table;
package mypackage1;
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this(25,"farting");
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super(acct,first);
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setAccount(file.readInt() );
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name[i] = temp;
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else
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+posted by toniemae:+
+When I add a file to an existing or new folder, that file goes to the bottom of the folder out of view, and the folder has a very long scroll bar. That file can be dragged up next to other files near the top of the folder. Or the files in the folder can be rearranged by e.g. name, and all files in the folder are then in view. This problem is especially annoying when one file is added to a new folder, and the folder appears to be empty when opened, except that the huge scroll bar, if noticed, indicates presence of an out-of-sight file somewhere in the folder+.
my 2cents:
yes it true you can set view prefs. but, this is a behavior that did not always happen in 10.4. after installing 10.4.9 on a G5, added/copied or files/folders would appear normally next to any other existing icons. just recently my mac has started putting new files/folders at the bottom, beyond visible space in a window, adding a scroll bar. i think this is a poss. pref's corruption or something..this also happened on my G4 with 10.4.8
anyone find a solution?
(it def. drives me crazy)
thanks, brad

You are using 'icon view' for the folder. Use 'list view'.

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I wish Apple paid attention...
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For that exact reason, we have no ability to fix bugs in iTunes. You can however, report them directly to Apple:
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Why does Apple not want me to know where my files are?

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While most likely not of interest to you, Spotlight can also tell you where the files it finds are located
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<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420456/open-terminal-here-in-mac-os-finder>
<http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110729034827358>
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1047793/folderinterm.html>
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1161876/open_finder_folder_in_terminal.html>
<http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/os_x_lion_open_a_folders_location_in_term inal>

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I currently have music in 5 different locations on my internal hard drive (don't ask). I just purchased an external hard drive, and would like to consolidate all the music to that drive in one location. How do I do this without having to "repoint" itunes to the new file location for every single individual song? I can't do that 4,000 times- I will lose my marbles...
Thank you...

Moving iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449?viewlocale=en_US
Just did this myself. Change the location where you have told iTunes to import files to. Then use consolidate option. It will take a long time depending on total size of files to COPY. Once change is made and verified you can, at your option, delete the original files. After doing this you must always have external drive attached and ready before opening iTunes.

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There's been a lot written on how to move an iTunes Media library, I haven't seen anything for a situation that I'm trying to resolve.
I'd like to move some of my movie files from an internal drive folder to an external NAS box. The library of movies would be split between these two drive locations. Consolidating onto one drive is not an option.
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After I move the movies, I could import them back into iTunes to establish the new drive location, however this has the disadvantage of resetting stats on those movies and iTunes treats them as 'new' rather then previously viewed, and date stamps are reset as well (Recently added).
Are there any tricks or utils that I could use that would allow me to only update their new file locations on the external hard drive?
And to clarify, all my music, and movie files are not imported and managed by the itunes Media folder. The options "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" are not checked on. I'm also using the latest versions of OS X, iTunes etc.
Thanks for any help.

Doug's script Re-locate Selected would let you move all the movies into a single folder. Altenatively you could declare a new media folder on the NAS drive, decline when iTunes offers to consolidate, select just the files that you want to move, right/ctrl-click and select Consolidate from the context menu. Reset the media folder when the consolidate process completes, again cancel any prompt to copy files to the media folder.This will create copies in the new media folder but you will have to tidy up the originals by hand.
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