Moving All Photos and Data to a New Computer

Some links that mat be useful:

• Here's a link to the Lightroom Queen Blog and ebook on moving to a new computer https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-lightroom-to-new-computer/
• Here's another useful free resource. Talks from install up https://www.lightroomqueen.com/members/free-membership/classic-free-ebook/

dj is exactly right. This is very simple. Just copy over the catalog and the images and you're done. It is also possible to use the export as catalog feature (which is a one click thing) and export the entire catalog including all the images and edits to an external disk indeed. Just copy that over from your external disk to your new computer and double click on the catalog and you're done. That will work too but is not as simple as just copying the images and the catalog.

No exporting, no importing. How's that for simple?

Copy the catalog file to the new computer. Copy the photos to the new computer, without rearranging them, without changing the folder hierarchy. How's that for simple?

Double click on the catalog file, then re-link the parent folder where the photos are located on the new computer. See figure 4 here.

Do not add extra steps. Do not think you can do it differently. Do not make it more complicated than I described above.