Inchiquin Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 I'm probably the only person on the planet who would try to do this, but just in case there's some other poor soul struggling... I recently outgrew my hard drive and added a new one. When I tried to import photos from it to Lightroom the Import window refused to acknowledge its existence. I could see every other damn drive on the system including transient portable ones. After much head-scratching and fruitless manual-reading I had a sudden thought: I always give my drives a name and usually set a drive letter to match the name. I called this one Blackwood and set it to B:. What if Lightroom doesn't recognise letters before C:? So I reset the drive to D: and hey presto, it appeared. I see why Lightroom might do this but I don't agree with it. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 A and B are reserved for floppy drives-remember them?- for backwards compatibility. We still have a machine upstairs with both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Yes, but then Lightroom should treat them like any other drives for the purposes of input. They're valid drive letters and it shouldn't be up to individual applications to decide that they're not valid. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 LR enumerates drives regularly. Were it to recognise a and b, users who still have floppies would be a bit annoyed to have them spin up constantly. LR started in the age of the floppy, so there was a good reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanGibson Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 I haven't used Windows for some time (especially floppy drives!), but if I recall correctly, A refers to the first floppy drive. If there is only 1 floppy drive, then B can be used as a virtual drive so that you can swap discs and use the single drive as if there were two drives connected. Which might explain why software doesn't recognise a B drive. Or I could be wrong. It has happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 LR enumerates drives regularly. I'm struggling to imagine why it would do that, unless you have specified a folder on that drive to be checked for new images. Surely the only other time it would enumerate drives is when you go to the Import screen? Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeCee Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 A and B are reserved for floppy drives-remember them?- for backwards compatibility. We still have a machine upstairs with both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drives. Yikes - 5 1/4" drives! Do you have the electric start model, or does yours still have the starting handle that goes in the left hand side??? We still have a laptop that runs XP, and takes 3 1/2" floppies. For safety, it's not allowed on the net for fear it'll catch sommat nasty and infect the entire household. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Given that floppies were 720K or 1.44MB they wouldn't have been much use for storing images.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Given that images were much smaller in those days, I think they might. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Given that images were much smaller in those days, I think they might. Alan The point isn't that they were used for storage, but to prevent their being spun up pointlessly when enumerated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Given that images were much smaller in those days, I think they might. Alan Not much use in LR today though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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