Well, the new hard drive arrived and it’s pretty amazing. It’s less than a 1/2″ thick and only 3″ x 4.25″, compared to the War & Peace-sized brick it’s replacing. Also, no AC power plug – it runs right off the USB 3 cable.
However, after running into endless problems, fits and starts, I had to reformat it from a new NTFS standard that works on both Mac and Windows (partially) to a Mac only format. Now, I’ve had to restart the slow and painful restore of over a terabyte of photo files. I hope to connect to Lightroom by tonight with all my 2015 photos and start working on new images, though I suspect it will take me a week to fully restore all the historic files to the new drive.
Hang in there – try picking a category (in the panel on the right) to see some of your old favorites in the meantime. Back soon.
You too… hang in there! 🙂
Thanks. I’ve restored all of 2015 back to 2008. Only a few decades to go.
Well, that is the reason I keep all my data (and photos of course…) on an external disk with still a backup on another one. All you have to do is plug it in and start working… The few fractions of a second that it reacts slower that way really don’t make much difference 😉
Good luck!
Thanks. So far I’ve recovered 2013 – 15 (I think)