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Catalog on external disk

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December 3, 2024
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I would like to migrate my complete Catalog without Smart Preview to an external disk.

So when I am on the road without my external disk my photos are stiil visible.

How can I solve this issue?

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GoldingD

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One question that should be considered/reconsider. Why are you using SmartPreviews? Yes their are Pro and CON as to that.

dj_paige

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I would like to migrate my complete Catalog without Smart Preview to an external disk.
So when I am on the road without my external disk my photos are stiil visible.
How can I solve this issue?

By @Ton34858522hei2

I'm really not understanding what you want. When you say "migrate my complete catalog", do you mean the photos or the catalog file, or both, or something else?

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Ton34858522hei2Author

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I want my Catalog with Previews on an external. All my photo's are on the erternal (and in the cloud) but I only want the Smart previews on my harddrive to have them with me when I am on the road. Thats all.

KR Seals

Community Expert

I don;t think you can split up the folders that way. LrC will look in the same folder where the Previews folder is located for the Smart Previews. That's why it puts them all together during the installation or creation of smart previews.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

KR Seals

Community Expert

Laptop? Are the originals on some other external drive that will not be present when you are on the road?

Include the Previews AND Smart Previews folders on the external drive you will have with you. The whole purpose of Smart Previews is to allow you to see and work on the images when the originals are not connected.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

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Ton34858522hei2Author

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All originals are on an external. But the smart previews are ± 75gb. and 1:1 previews ±50gb.

I want to have more space left on my laptop.

KR Seals

Community Expert

Just get a larger external drive and copy all those preview and smart previews to that, keeping the folder structure of the Lightroom Classic folder.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

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