Transferring from Lightroom to Hard drive

Question

I have always worked by opening Lightroom, selecting a catalogue and importing my photos straight from my memory card into that catalogue.  All of these photos are saved directly to Lightroom, by date, and processed from there and I don't currently have them saved anywhere else.  I am now booking real clients and my computer storage is filling up fast and I am currently unorganized.  I would like to transfer all of my catalogue to an external hard drive and delete them from my computer storage to have a fresh start and work from hard drive from now on.  Is there a step by step process I should take in order to not permanently discard of any images?  And how do I go about importing directly to hard drive and working on them in lightroom?? thanks!!

Theresa J · Accepted Answer

The photos aren't 'saved to Lightroom', they are copied to your computer's hard drive. Lightroom knows where they are. It doesn't actually hold the images. By default Lr copies images from a memory card to the pictures folder on your hard drive. You can copy that entire folder to an external hard drive. Relink Lr to the new location, then delete the images in the pictures folder. I wrote a simple step by step here. Can I move my Lightroom photos to a new hard drive. | Orchard View Color

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