Moving from several external drives to one new external

Question

All Lightroom CC image files (Windows 11) are located in four external drives all USB connected to desktop in one catalog. I intend to move all from the four to one large external drive also to be USB connected. How can I acomplish this globally and not face the dreaded "..could not be found.." message necessitating locating over 5000 files in the new location. The hieracy of the current catalog is Library-Folders-drive letter of each of the four externals-multiple folders by year within that drive-multiple named folders withiin each year-the image files.

By moving globally, I mean not moving each of th 5000 files separately. Moving within LR by the drive letter of the external drives would suffice if it can be done.

NormSc · Accepted Answer

Thank you all for the comments. The process has begun and should be successfully concluded in a day or two (so I hope) as the moving from first old disk to new external disk consumed 11 hours using Windows Explorer, Each old disk contained 4 TB,

NormSc · Answer

To clarify my initial post, I can easily move from the old to the new using Windows Explorer but then the could not locate message will appear. It there a way to globally locate the old ?

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