How to consolidate images on various hard drives?

Question

I have several sets of images in a single catalogue split across various locations - C; drive, 😧 drive and limited online storage. I would like to consolidate all my images onto my large D drive without causing problems in organiser? I running PSE 2023 on Win 10 and have 50K images in one catalogue. I was wondering if i cut and paste the images from their various locations into my photos folder in D; would this break the links within organiser? Is there another way which would work that doesn't confuse organiser?

Many thanks, Pete

Greg_S. · Answer

Hi Pete. DO NOT cut and paste the files from one drive to the other. This will, as you say, break the links and create a mess to fix.

Instead, use the Organizer's Folder panel to drag and drop the files/folders from one drive to the other. In order to do this, make sure you are in the Tree View rather than the List View. Click on the Hamburger icon next to the My Folders label and you will be able to make this change if you are in the wrong view:

Also, right-click on each of the drive root folder icons and select Show All Sub-Folders from the context menu.

You will now have all of the folders available and can click and drag entire folders (with sub-folders) from your unwanted storage locations to your D drive.

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