[Leica] External Hard Drives

[Tina Manley]

Thanks, Aram!

I am redoing my whole back-up system.  Frank is helping me.  It will be
expensive but I'll feel better getting rid of my Drobos and using Synology
instead.

I appreciate the LUG!

Tina

On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 12:31 PM Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just back from a week camping so maybe you have solved your problem.  I
> get the digest, so cannot see any newer replies.
>
> You can get a new battery for them and it is easy to replace. But it
> should have some sort of indicator light to tell you the battery is not
> up to snuff anymore.
>
> I find it a mystery why the drive letters change.  When you change your
> drive letter are you doing it in the disk management section of the
> control panel or just in the file explorer window. I would go to disk
> management and make the letter change there and see if that works.
>
> Aram
>
> On 5/3/2024 8:26:09, Tina Manley wrote:
> > The computer is plugged into the APC power backup but when the power goes
> > out, everything goes out.
> >
> > I guess it's not working and I need to investigate that.  It's pretty
> old.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 11:19 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Connected to what? If there is backup power, then the computer shouldn't
> >> be aware of the outage.
> >> The drive letters are determined by the computer and not by the drives,
> >> so the computer is what needs to be plugged into an APC.
> >>
> >> On 2024-05-03 07:57, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
> >>> I have an APC power backup connected but it doesn't help!
> >>>
> >>> Tina
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 10:55 AM Sonny Carter via LUG
> >>> <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have back ups power supplies on mine and never had that happen.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Sonny
> >>>> www.SonC.Com/Look
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 9:45 AM Tina Manley via LUG
> >>>> <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> LUG:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Every time the power goes out, as it did this morning, when it comes
> >> back
> >>>>> on all of my 7 external hard drives have changed their designation
> >> letter
> >>>>> arbitrarily.  It really messes up my LR catalog and takes hours to
> >> fix.
> >>>>> Current (G) becomes Current (J) and all photos in LR have to be
> >> "found"
> >>>>> again.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there any way to permanently assign these designations so they
> >> don't
> >>>>> change??
> >>>>>
> >>>>> TIA
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tina
> >>>>>
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> & Unemployed photographer
>
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> would ever have dared dream.”
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>
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