Painless way to replace external drive with LrC Photos

Question

I use LrC on an iMac running Sonoma. I keep all of my photos on an external drive which is updated to the cloud hourly and backed up on a second drive at night.

The drive is getting long in the tooth and I am replacing it with a SSD. I am using ChronoSync software to mirror the contents of the old drive to the new drive--the content should look the same on both drives, only the name of the drives will differ.

So how do I change out the old drive and replace it with the new and have it work seemlessly with my Lightroom catalog from the getgo?

I am pretty ignorant of the technology, so please be clear on the steps.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rob

dj_paige · Accepted Answer

After you unplug the old drive and won't be using it anymore, change the name of the new drive to be EXACTLY the same as the old drive.

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