Moving photos from DVD disks to NAS
Viewing photo information in Adobe Lightroom
- Open the Photo Archive catalog in Adobe Lightroom.
- Work on Windows since the iMac doesn't have a DVD drive.
- Photos that are only on DVD will be marked as "missing" in the catalog.
- Mount a photo archive DVD.
- Find the corresponding collection for that DVD in the Lightroom catalog.
- The photos for this DVD may or may not be located. Some of the DVDs were mapped to the
G:\ drive when added to the catalog and some were mapped to the E:\ drive.
Copying photos to NAS
- Open Powershell
- For each directory on the DVD:
c:\> cd e:\
e:\> robocopy .\places N:\photos\archive\places /S /xf /XO *.xmp
- Add the
\L option to the robocopy command to do a test run.
- Eject the DVD. Now the photos in the Lightroom collection corresponding to the DVD will be missing.
- Click the exclamation mark at the top right of the photo thumbnail in the Lightroom gallery to locate the missing photo.
- Find the photo file on the NAS drive.