Hi,
I bought a new 5TB external hard drive to use as a back up for my existing 5TB drive. There are approx 1.2TB (80K) photos in various folders to be backed up and I used Intego Back Up Manager to copy the files across. I formatted the new drive correctly before starting the back up and after many hours it was complete. Today I started up my iMac and the folders below first level on the ORIGINAL drive are not showing although the Finder is telling me that the disk space is still being used (1.2TB). Now Lightroom can't find the photos on the drive.
Just to check that it wasn't a faulty drive, I've gone through the same process with a couple of smaller drives with the same outcome. I've even tried just copy between two Finder windows and the files copy across OK but are missing from original disk when you reopen Finder. i.e. folders missing on the original drive but space still used.
I've used many external drives and done mass back up/copy with no problems until now.
I've had a look here and others online and I can't see any solutions.
Using El Capitan 10.11.02 on iMac (mid 2010).
Sorry this is long winded but I am tearing my hair out here.
Thanks
Bill
I bought a new 5TB external hard drive to use as a back up for my existing 5TB drive. There are approx 1.2TB (80K) photos in various folders to be backed up and I used Intego Back Up Manager to copy the files across. I formatted the new drive correctly before starting the back up and after many hours it was complete. Today I started up my iMac and the folders below first level on the ORIGINAL drive are not showing although the Finder is telling me that the disk space is still being used (1.2TB). Now Lightroom can't find the photos on the drive.
Just to check that it wasn't a faulty drive, I've gone through the same process with a couple of smaller drives with the same outcome. I've even tried just copy between two Finder windows and the files copy across OK but are missing from original disk when you reopen Finder. i.e. folders missing on the original drive but space still used.
I've used many external drives and done mass back up/copy with no problems until now.
I've had a look here and others online and I can't see any solutions.
Using El Capitan 10.11.02 on iMac (mid 2010).
Sorry this is long winded but I am tearing my hair out here.
Thanks
Bill
