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

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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?

JohanElzenga · Accepted Answer

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.

Ken Nielsen · Answer

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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