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The absolution of Adobe Lightroom 2 is arranged with bags of advantageous fresh appearance and capabilities. One note-worthy accession is the continued abutment for alien adamantine drives.

If you’re like me, you apparently accept at atomic one alien adamantine drive acclimated as a back accessory or for added photo storage. In Lightroom 1, all alien photos were visually airtight calm in a often-confusing binder list. Version 2 of Lightroom gives us a abundant added allusive and advisory appearance of our photo folders and absorbed devices.

In the Folders acreage of the Library module, Lightroom 2 now offers added advice for the adamantine drive (or “Volume”) that the photos are stored on, including the name of the adamantine drive and the bulk of deejay amplitude actuality used. 

If you right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac), you’ll accompany up a card of options that let you accept what advice you appetite to view, such as Photo Count, Status (if the Aggregate is online or offline), or None if you don’t appetite any added advice displayed. 

As if that wasn’t air-conditioned enough, analysis out the little blooming bar to the larboard of the aggregate title. Blooming indicates that the aggregate has affluence of accumulator amplitude available. If the bar turns yellow/orange, that agency the aggregate is about abounding of data. If the bar is red, run for your life! …or, aloof booty that as a admonishing that your adamantine drive is full.

To acceptation photos from an alien drive, go to File > Acceptation Photos from Disk… In the acceptation chat box, accomplish abiding the File Handling pull-down alternative is set to “Add photos to archive after moving.” 

When you bang the Acceptation button the drive that the files are stored on will now arise in the Folder list.

Another advantageous affection of this fresh arrangement is the adeptness to drag-and-drop the files from one adamantine drive to another. There are some limitations to this ability, as you are presented with a alert advice you that affective these files cannot be undone.

This doesn’t beggarly that you can’t move the files aback to your antecedent adamantine drive by artlessly dragging-and-dropping again; you aloof won’t be able to disengage this move via the Edit menu.

If the alien adamantine drive is not connected, it will arise grayed out in the Binder account if you still accept alien photos referenced on that drive. If you no best accept any charge for these photos or this accurate alien drive, artlessly Remove the folder(s) and the adamantine drive will be removed from the Binder account automatically. 

While this continued abutment for alien adamantine drives is not one of the best agitative fresh appearance central Lightroom 2, it’s still a acceptable accession for anyone who brand accepting the adaptability to administer photos on a abstracted adamantine drive.