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Tom_brown3
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June 26, 2023
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Starting a new drive, and wanting to move certain catalogs onto it

  • June 26, 2023
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Hello all! Could you help me out? Ever since I got a Nikon Z9 it rapidly filled up the 2 TB SSD I work off of. I just ordered a new 2 TB SSD, and I want to move the photos and the catalogs I have shot with the Z9 (I have had it for about six months) and all my settings and presets to the new hard drive when it gets here. Can someone share the easiest way a semi-illiterate person can understand

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KR Seals
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KR SealsCommunity Expert
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June 28, 2023

The main point to understand here is that the Catalog(s) does not contain the photos. The photos are located in folders that are created during the import process. 

As DJ Paige says, keep your catalogs on the original drive. Once you have the new drive connected, start importing the image files to the new drive. You can also move the PHOTO files from the original drive to the new drive by dragging the folders from the original drive in the Lightroom Classic app to the new drive. That will move the photo files, creating room on the original drive. Do NOT move the files from outside of Lightroom Classic! Lightroom Classic would lose track of them if you did that.

1. Back up both the catalog file(s) with the LrC backup function that will happen when you exit LrC. Designate a folder on the new drive where the backup will be saved.

2. You will need yet another drive to backup the photos. It does not need to be an SSD, just an external hard drive.

 

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.
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Tom_brown3Author
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June 28, 2023

Ok.. So i just got my new drive. here we go! As mentioned the only reason I am doing this is to take the last few months of photos since I got my Z9, and move them to the new drive. Then at my leisure I can continue to edit the 29k images I have on my original Drive! Its funny how quick tech evolves. I remember being the talk of my neighborhood in 8th grade because my computer had twin 256mb hard drives. At my current camera settings that is about 10 photos lol.

dj_paige
dj_paige
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June 26, 2023

Really no need to move anything to the new drive. When you get the new drive, just start importing photos to that new drive.

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Tom_brown3Author
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June 26, 2023

So all my watermarks,presets etc will just get pulled in as well?

dj_paige
dj_paige
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June 26, 2023

If you simply leave your catalog and photos where they are and import new photos onto the new disk using your existing catalog, all of your work, all of your presets, etc., plus anything you do on photos on the new disk, remain available.

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