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Inspiring
April 30, 2026
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Dragging folders to a different drive

  • April 30, 2026
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I have more than a hundred folders on a drive and need to move some of them to a different drive. I’m working on a 27” iMac. I can’t drag the folder to the other drive because the screen doesn’t scroll down to where the other drive is (visually). If I could right click on the folder I want to move it would be more convenient. But this doesn’t seem possible. Any solution to the dragging approach? 

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Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 30, 2026

There are multiple ways to solve this.

 

If you’re dragging many items, hold the drag just above the bottom edge of the Folders panel and that should cause it to scroll down; when it scrolls to where you want you can complete the drop. By the way, this is already a Mac standard technique; you can already do the same mid-drag auto-scrolling in a folder window on the Mac desktop.

 

JohanElzenga’s suggestion is another Mac standard technique that I also use. He talked about it with a scroll wheel mouse, and I’m adding that it also works on an Apple trackpad in case that’s what you’re using with your iMac: If you hold the drag over the Folders panel (or macOS Finder window) with one finger, you can use two other fingers to scroll that list until you see where you want to drop the items. The lesson here is that macOS supports two different simultaneous inputs for the same input device (and this is also true for iOS multi-touch on iPhone and iPad).

 

Yet another Folders panel technique is to apply a color label to the two folders that are far apart in the list. Then enable the Folders panel filter set to that specific color label. This will hide all folders except the ones with that color label, so now they’re next to each other, making the drag short and easy. So if the techniques above seem too tricky and complicated, this one is super simple and requires no special gestures or timing.

 

These tips also work with other Lightroom Classic list panels, such as Collections and Publish Services.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 30, 2026

I think it scrolls if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel. Keep pressing the mouse button to keep selecting the folder, then with another finger rotate the scroll wheel.

 

Another method, a probably much easier, is to give the folder(s) a color label and then search on labeled folders. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/create-folders.html

-- Johan W. Elzenga
dj_paige
Legend
April 30, 2026

I can’t drag the folder to the other drive because the screen doesn’t scroll down to where the other drive is (visually).

 

I’m not sure what this means. Can you show us a screen capture?

 

A possible solution is to move folders using your operating system (which many people think is the safer way to do this anyway) and then reconnect LrC to the new location of the folders

Inspiring
April 30, 2026

When I drag the highlighted folder down to try and get to the other drive the dragging function stops at the bottom of the screen. The screen doesn’t scroll so you can’t drag anything there.

 

dj_paige
Legend
May 1, 2026

When I drag the highlighted folder down to try and get to the other drive the dragging function stops at the bottom of the screen. The screen doesn’t scroll so you can’t drag anything there.

 

I requested a screen capture to illustrate the problem, so additional words that you provide is not as helpful as a screen capture.