How do I bring part of a catalog that was stored on separate drive into my main Lightroom catalog ?

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December 21, 2023
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This problem has me at a stand still with a fragmented catalog for the year. I always save my photos in parent folders by year, with sub folders by date of shoot. But because of running out of hard disk space, I had to make the entries of shoots by date into a separate folder for files on a separate hard drive that had the space that was needed. So now I have a new larger hard drive and I want to know how to bring that separate set of entries with folders by dates with contents into the full year's catalog. I have made a copy of those entries at the finder level, all in place now by date on the new hard drive. But the catalog still has no entries for the time things were stored in a folder on the separate hard drive. How should I proceed in order to bring those folders by date into the full year's catalog?

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解決に役立った回答 JohanElzenga

So if I understand you correctly, the images are in the catalog already, but the catalog still points to the copies on the other drive? If so, then do the following. In the Lightroom folder panel, right-click on the top folder of that other drive and choose 'Update Folder Location'. In the dialog that comes up, navigate to the same folder on the new drive and select it. Done. Lightroom will now show the images at the new location.

JohanElzenga

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So if I understand you correctly, the images are in the catalog already, but the catalog still points to the copies on the other drive? If so, then do the following. In the Lightroom folder panel, right-click on the top folder of that other drive and choose 'Update Folder Location'. In the dialog that comes up, navigate to the same folder on the new drive and select it. Done. Lightroom will now show the images at the new location.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Ken Nielsen作成者

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This makes excellent sense and I think it will work. I want to think it through for a while before I act as it is so easy to do the wrong thing and make a unrecoverable mess so I've learned to move slowly. This sounds so perfect though that I'm going to mark it as the correct answer and thank you Johan. Please help with this though. I have no folders yet for the errant folders in the existing catalog on the new drive. Can I still re-locate from the temporary location? Or, do I need to create empty folders with the same names as the target?

JohanElzenga

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This makes excellent sense and I think it will work. I want to think it through for a while before I act as it is so easy to do the wrong thing and make a unrecoverable mess so I've learned to move slowly. This sounds so perfect though that I'm going to mark it as the correct answer and thank you Johan.

By @Ken Nielsen

I think you may misunderstand what this menu does. You can't make an unrecoverable mess with it. 'Update Folder Location' does not move any folders, it just updates the link in the catalog to the new copy of the folder you already made yourself. Make a backup of your catalog before you do it and you are 100% safe.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Ken Nielsen作成者

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In thinking this over, the only way I can think of getting this done is to make new catalog entries into the extisting main catalog and then import from the external drive, kind of like 're-doing' what I had already done, but this seems like the only solution. I wll loose all of my image markings for 'ratings' but good I have the original images. So this is one solution.

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