LR5 not letting me import...

Trying to import files from my SD card from a job earlier today. The other day, I ran out of room on the drive I was using so I added another drive and imported files to that drive. Now, when I try to import to the drive, it's telling me I don't have enough room on the original drive I used--NOT the new one. It's telling me this even though I have the target pointing to the NEW drive.

Cannot figure out why this is happening. I've added drives many times in the past with no issues. I don't know of anywhere else I need to point it to, besides, it imported just fine when I first added the disk.

Help!

"when a job went wrong, you went back to the beginning. And this is where we got the job. So it’s the beginning, and I’m staying till Vizzini comes."

Can you pop up a screen grab

Two Hot Shoes wrote in post #17116962
Can you pop up a screen grab

Here's a shot:

Unplug the original drive and restart lightroom - is your catalogue on the original drive? Your 1:1 preview location is it the same as your catalogue?

Two Hot Shoes wrote in post #17117039
Unplug the original drive and restart lightroom - is your catalogue on the original drive? Your 1:1 preview location is it the same as your catalogue?

Yes, the catalog is on the original drive. Should I move it over? Like I said, the strange thing is is allowed me to import just fine once and now it won't.

I'd check the sizes of you lightroom folders first to see what's what. Probably be better to move folders to the new drive USING LIGHTROOM! OR just delete some old files on the old drive to see if that gives you the space to sore out the problem.

I recently moved my entire folders to a new external drive, just move them using lightroom, drag and drop to the new location. It's really easy.

Two Hot Shoes wrote in post #17117102
I'd check the sizes of you lightroom folders firs to see what's what. Probably be better to move folders to the new drive USING LIGHTROOM! OR just delete some old files on the old drive to see if that gives you the space to sore out the problem.

I recently moved my entire folders to a new external drive just move them using lightroom, drag and drop to the new location.

I don't want to move everything over because I don't want to already have a new drive filled. That would defeat the purpose of using the new drive.

If there are any old files you can delete do that, you could just move over your last few folders to make some space

Two Hot Shoes wrote in post #17117122
If there are any old files you can delete do that, you could just move over your last few folders to make some space

I don't have anything to delete. Also, I want to figure out what it's doing this--treat the problem, not the symptom sort of thing.

It worked the first time I imported, now, it thinks I'm pointed at the original drive which I'm not.

Your 1:1 previews are, if your drive is full they will not write to file. Indeed be good to find out the issue.

Two Hot Shoes wrote in post #17117142
Your 1:1 previews are, if your drive is full they will not write to file. Indeed be good to find out the issue.

Ok but, whatever is causing this will just happen again if I don't figure out why. And, again, my biggest issue is it already imported with no problems once. I really need to get this figured out as I've got a busy week and I've still not been able to import this job.

You said you old drive is full, if you make space on it by moving some files to your new drive you are allowing room for Lightroom to write the information into its catalogue and it's previews folders.

These are the folders that Lightroom 5 uses to store information about your photos and the changes you make to them including location;

Catalog: [catalog name].lrcat
Previews: [catalog name] Previews.lrdata
Smart Previews (Lightroom 5 only): [catalog name] Smart Previews.lrdata

Use your finder to check the size of them, they can get quite large. In essence the drive that has your catalogue on it will need space for Lightroom to run it's import, even if you send the image files to a different hard drive.

Two Hot Shoes wrote in post #17117253
You said you old drive is full, if you make space on it by moving some files to your new drive you are allowing room for Lightroom to write the information into its catalogue and it's previews folders.

These are the folders that Lightroom 5 uses to store information about your photos and the changes you make to them including location;

Catalog: [catalog name].lrcat
Previews: [catalog name] Previews.lrdata
Smart Previews (Lightroom 5 only): [catalog name] Smart Previews.lrdata

Use your finder to check the size of them, they can get quite large. In essence the drive that has your catalogue on it will need space for Lightroom to run it's import, even if you send the image files to a different hard drive.

I was messing around and now I understand what you're getting at. I've moved the catalogs I was using over to the new drive. Yes they're large but small enough to do this. I guess the last import put the catalogs over the edge. I hadn't realized it was storing the previews along with the catalog, I had thought they were stored with the photos.

Thanks for the help!

Awesome, glad you got it sorted. Happy editing.