Can I keep my current pics on one exhd and future ones on another exhd and flip back and forth?

Question

I have Lr. cloud and use MacOS. My 10 TB external HD is just about filled up. I am buying a 20 TB drive.

Is there a way that I can continue to use the 10 TB drive for all of the 48,800 pictures on it and put new, future pictures onto the 20 TB drive, keeping both drives available to view/ active?

Rob_Cullen · Accepted Answer

@BRUCE28461361nn3h  You will not be able to import 10TB of photos to a 1TB Lightroom Plan. But when Lr is used in Local mode, then yes, you can have acccess to any attached drive by browsing.

Aleke · Answer

Hi @BRUCE28461361nn3h! You can absolutely use an external hard drive with Lightroom, but just a heads-up, the app stores your photos in the cloud by default. You can choose to keep a local copy of your originals on your computer or an external drive, but the cloud remains the main storage location.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Alek

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