Moving Lightroom files and catalog

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February 24, 2019
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Hi Folks

I'd like to move ALL my Adobe LR CC (6.8) files from the internal drive to an external drive.

If I do that, ALL pictures lost the original path. How can I fix that without to define every picture new??

Daniel

Zurich

move lightroom images to new drive

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D.A.R

Legend

After you move the files in the Lightroom folder launch Lightroom, target the topmost folder and right click. Then choose "Find Missing folder". Once this folder is "found" all images and folders below that folder will also be found.

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dj_paige

Legend

Another good source (see the section entitled "Part 2 — Updating Folder Location")

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

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

The lightroom queen has an article about that too:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/move-photos-another-hard-drive-leaving-catalog/

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

And if eventually you want to move the catalog too, just add a step where you copy the catalog and previews to the external drive and double click it to open it from there.

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swiss-manAuthor

Participant

I'm using a Mac (MBP), not windows-

And I just moving ALL LR Fotos an catalogs from an internal drive to an external USB drive.....