Moving Lightroom files and catalog

[swiss-man]

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

[johnrellis]

See this article: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-lightroom-to-new-computer/ . It talks about moving to a new computer, but the steps are mostly the same.

[swiss-man]

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.....

[Jao vdL]

The lightroom queen has an article about that too:

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

[Jao vdL]

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.

[dj_paige]

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

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

[D.A.R]

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.