I had just spent quite some time copying images from external drives that weren't in my lightroom catalog through Lightroom CC Classic. The electric wire to my WD 14TB hard drive is not long enough and I managed to to trip over it, with the hard drive landing heavily on the hard floor of my kitchen/diner.
I have some new hard drives coming. Will I need to delete all the catalog files from lightroom before I start reimporting 15,000 images? Or is there a way of importing them bearing in mind that if I don't unblock don't import duplicates, it will not allow me to import the images to the new hard drives...
I had copied photos from several portable hard drives on to a powered 14TB desktop hard drive. I copied them through lightroom so they appeared in my catalog. I still have the files on their original destination as I copied rather than moved them. The 14TB drive is trying to spin, but I suspect it is damaged as it doesn't do a constant spin and doesn't appear in my list of devices on my MacBook. I want to copy the same files through LR on to the new hard drives I have. How do I do this since there are the previews already in LR? LR will see them as duplicates and fail to import them,