Exporting catalogue and pics from one ext drive to new ssd issues

Question

Exported catalogue and pics from external drive to new ssd but when I opened new catalogue no picture to see. Finder says almosts a Tb of data transferred (20+ yrs of photos).

Tried straight copy of drives using finder and on opening LR it showed most of the pics but whereas before they were in year folders now they are all in one folder.

What am I doing wrong?

Mac mini M2 running ventura.

dj_paige · Answer

There is no export needed when moving catalog and photos to a new drive. You need to start over from the old external drive.

You move the photos and catalog file using your operating system, then launch the catalog from its new location and then re-connect the photos inside the catalog following these instructions (see Figure 4, in particular) https://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

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