External photo drive cloned how do I tell lightroom to use the clone?

[mgason]

I am not sure if I have gone about this the right way.

I replaced my external drives with new SSD ones. Using Carbon Copy I cloned the old external drive with all of my lightroom images, and some other things, to my new SSD (not the catalog, that is on my laptop).

How do I tell Lightroom the images can now be found on the new SSD. The folder structure and names are exactly the same except for the drive name. Old drive named Lightroom, new one named LightroomExtreme.

[AxelMatt]

Please see here:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

There you'l find the appropriate infos how to fix.

[Joe Foe Toe]

Open Lightroom as usual. Go to Folders. If all folders are contained in a parent folder, right-click the parent folder and then "Update folder location" - point it to the new proper folder and this should set everything right. If there are multiple folders, you'll have to repeat the process for each, but the subfolders should all switch automatically.

[JohanElzenga]

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@mgason wrote:

I am not sure if I have gone about this the right way.

I replaced my external drives with new SSD ones. Using Carbon Copy I cloned the old external drive with all of my lightroom images, and some other things, to my new SSD (not the catalog, that is on my laptop).

How do I tell Lightroom the images can now be found on the new SSD. The folder structure and names are exactly the same except for the drive name. Old drive named Lightroom, new one named LightroomExtreme.

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The links given to you give an answer, but the easiest solution of all is to name the new drive "Lightroom". That is all you will need to do. If you want to still use the old drive (for backups or something else), then rename that one to something like "LightroomOld".

[mgason]

Thanks for the reply Johan,

that would be an easy solution and definitely work, but for various reasons I wanted to stay with the new drive name if possible.