Change made to External Drive Letter
I am a relative newcomer to CaptureOne. I have imported many photographs into a catalogue and have them organised in various User Collections. The original photographs are located on an external hard drive which Windows designates as the "E" Drive. Everything has been working fine until today. I opened up CaptureOne with my external drive attached and noticed that the photos in the browser were still flagged as "offline" I now see that Captureone in the Library Folder tab has the external drive and the folder structure and sub folders showing but with the letter "D" rather than "E". The individual folders have exclamation marks inside a triagle which I assume indicates that the CaptureOne cannot locate the photographs. I am at a loss to understand how this could have happened. I have not knowingly made any changes to any of the drive names or location. I would appreciate any help that might enable me to understand what has gone wrong and how I might resolve
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Frank
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Frank
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I think I have solved the problem. Right clicking on the "D" drive in Captureone and asking Windows to locate it in file explorer enable me to identify the "E" Drive as the location of the photos. Still have no idea how this problem arose however
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Frank0 -
Did you plug another drive in before firing up the catalogue drive? 0 -
I plugged in a memory card designated by Windows as "D" and the External hard drive "E" around the same time. Opening Captureone then led to the issue described above.
Frank0 -
[quote="NNN636943949786021199" wrote:
I plugged in a memory card designated by Windows as "D" and the External hard drive "E" around the same time. Opening Captureone then led to the issue described above.
Frank
I’m a Mac user these days, but I gather that one way of avoiding this kind of problem on Windows is to assign a fixed drive letter to the drive (perhaps from the end of the alphabet).
Ian0 -
[quote="NNN636943949786021199" wrote:
I plugged in a memory card designated by Windows as "D" and the External hard drive "E" around the same time. Opening Captureone then led to the issue described above.
Frank
If you have a built in SD card slot (and probably no DVD read write?) It might well be permanently allocated a D: drive association. But if you plug in an external device windows is likely to simply issue the next available drive letter.
Ian3's suggestion - or some other renaming of the drive permanently - would be the safest solution. Or simply undo the device connections and reapply them in a different order?
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Dear both
Thanks for the helpful suggestions.
I have found a step by step gude online to assigning a permanet letter to the external drive and I have given it a new letter. All seems to be well. I am by no means a computer expert and it therefore appears strange to me that windows can re assign letters to drives. I assume this must be a common problem where applications need to access a drive and cant because it has been given a new letter as per my experience.
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Frank0 -
Yes, the drive letter change does happen from time to time on Windows. Yes, it can be annoying. The permanent letter assignment is also not a permanent at you might want. I do not have issues with external drives that are usually attached but I have a USB stick and a back up drive that are only attached sometimes that I assigned a letters to and they are sometimes forgoten. I just reassign them again so my backup sw and scripts will work. Happens a few times a year.
On the other hand if your external drive should fail one day plugging in a mirrored back drive and assigning it the same letter and the failed drive will magically just work - which is nice.0 -
Anything you plug in that requires windows to allocate a drive letter can change if another device interferes with the assigned letter. In your case using a card reader.
Only drive letters that will stay constant are internal drives (until you allocate a new letter for them).0 -
[quote="Bobtographer" wrote:
Anything you plug in that requires windows to allocate a drive letter can change if another device interferes with the assigned letter. In your case using a card reader.
Only drive letters that will stay constant are internal drives (until you allocate a new letter for them).
That is the reason for suggesting assigning a letter from the end of the alphabet, as Windows will pick the next available one at the beginning.
Ian0
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