![]() However, you can’t export or send photos to an external editor since Lightroom Classic needs to access the actual source photo for those operations. You can add metadata, create slideshows and even web galleries from those previews. In fact if standard-sized previews have already been rendered for all the photos on that offline drive, you can still work with the offline photos in all modules except Develop (unless you made smart previews). Lightroom Classic was designed to operate with disconnected drives, so this isn’t a problem at all. The question marks on all the folders and exclamation points on thumbnails on that drive will go away. As soon as you reconnect that drive to your computer, you will see the volume browser come to life and the indicator change color to reflect the amount of free space on that drive. If you use one or more external drives, then you may see this quite often if/when you operate Lightroom Classic without those drives being connected (as in the capture above). In some cases an entire drive can be offline, in which case the volume browser for that drive will appear dimmed. Lightroom Classic lets you know when it can no longer connect/refer to the source photos by displaying a question mark icon on the affected folders and an exclamation point icon on all affected photos (you may also notice a “Photo is missing” message displayed under the Histogram). ![]() ![]() What happens outside of the catalog stays outside of the catalog. The place where people run into trouble is when they move, rename, or delete photos (or containing folders) outside of Lightroom Classic, which results in the location stored in the catalog no longer being valid. As long as you use Lightroom to do all file maintenance tasks (such as move, rename, or delete imported photos and folders) then that information is updated inside the catalog as part of the maintenance process. The path to that location is stored inside the catalog along with all the metadata embedded in each imported photo, and that is what Lightroom uses to find the source photos as you do your work. An often overlooked aspect of the import process into Lightroom Classic is that the exact location of where to find those photos on your system is written into the catalog file at that time. ![]()
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