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Moving folders with a catalog to a new hard drive

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
October 11, 2021
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Hi All,

I have done this a million times so I'm not sure what I'm getting wrong here. I have bunch of separate image folders and a folder with those images' corresponding LR catalog on a travel drive. I am trying to move all of this on to a larger hard drive into one folder. As I mentioned I've done this a million times by just dragging and dropping everything into a new folder on the larger hard drive.

But this time when I do that and open the catalog on the larger hard drive it is telling me that all of the images are still on the old hard drive. Then of course when I disconnect the travel drive in LR it shows as if the images are missing with the exclamation mark. I know how to reconnect them manually but I'd have to go folder by folder and there are many. I've also never had to do this before. What have I done wrong???

Mac OS. 11.6

LR Classic 10.4

macOS

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SRPcashieAuthor

Inspiring

Can someone please tell me what the right way to have done this would be? If I'm doing something wrong?

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SRPcashieAuthor

Inspiring

no one?

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SRPcashieAuthor

Inspiring

As an update, I even tried export as a catalog and it didn't work. Honestly, I've done this a million times. This does happen to be the first time I do it after I wiped my mac clean and reinstalled all my Adobe programs but this shouldn't be happening.

Earth Oliver

Legend

That's not how you move files around in Lightroom. The catalog doesn't care where it is and will always link back to the original location of the files. Did you do what was suggested above with show parent/find missing?

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SRPcashieAuthor

Inspiring

Yes, I did the above. Can you please tell me what the proper way to move them would be? I've always done it this way and it worked.

Randy Hufford

Community Expert

Sometimes holding your tongue on your left eye tooth solves the problem. No seriously do you have the catolog on both laptop and desk top. Did you use wrong lighroom catolog from wrong drive??

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SRPcashieAuthor

Inspiring

I have done this over and over again. Walked away for a day, and did it all over. When I open the catalog on the large hard drive it always shows as being on the old travel drive.

Theresa J

Community Expert

Maybe you need to show the parent folder in your catalog. This way you can reconnect the parent folder which will also connect all of the sub-folders.

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SRPcashieAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Theresa, how do you do that?

Theresa J

Community Expert

Right click or Control click on a folder. Then pick "show parent folder" from the contextual menu that pops up.

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