How to Move Lightroom Classic to External SSD

Question

I've been using the Adobe Photography plan (Lightroom Classic and Photoshop) for years but I have exhausted the mac's internal drive space. Previously I moved all of my photos, catalogs and backups to an external SSD but I am still getting warnings about insufficient disk space so I would like to move these apps to the external SSD also. My question is how should that be done? Should I just uninstall the apps from the internal drive then download and install them on the external SSD and then open LR from the lrcat file or is something else required?

Thanks!

macOS 15.3.2, LR Classic 14.2

dj_paige · Answer

You move the photos and catalog file, and then once you are sure everything has been moved properly and everything is working, then go ahead and make sure your previews and other similar files that LrC creates are deleted from the internal HD. You would not normally want to move/reinstall LrC itself.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/move-photos-another-hard-drive-leaving-catalog/

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/find-move-rename-catalog/

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