Moving catalog to a new drive

[msfox1]

I want to move my catalog to an SSD drive on my PC.  I currently have it on a spinning hard drive.  Am I correct in my assumption that I only really need to move the LR6 Catalog - Main.lrcat file?  If I only move that file, my understanding is that the previews will regenerate as I navigate to folders, is that correct?

I have LR6.

Thanks.

[99jon · Accepted solution]

Yes that is correct. LR will generate previews on the fly. I did exactly that when I moved my catalog as the previews file/folder was quite large. I copied just the .lrcat file and double-clicked (control-click) to launch it. When selecting folders with a large number of images I found that I had to scroll with the sidebar but LR quickly filled the blank thumbnails.

[AxelMatt]

Yes your are right. You need only move the catalog file to the new hard drive. But...., you spare a lot of time if you move the preview folder too.

Take a look here and refer section 4.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-lightroom-to-new-computer/

Axel