Moving LR catalog to external hard drive

[F5Duke]

I am new and in the process of learning LR.  Currently all my photos are stored and developed in my laptop, however it is getting too much for its hard drive.  I am thinkinng of moving the entire LR catalog to an external harddrive.  Would someone please give me some advice how to do this safely and also how to point the LR to its new location when I open it from the icon.

Thanks much.

[seeotter71]

Hello

I got a similar problem.

I have LR CC installed on 2 PC (Desktop & Laptop) and would like to work from the same catalog - currently located on the laptop. How can I do it? I have a WD My Cloud driver in the network. Would it work if I relocate the catalog there ?

Best Regards

Patrik

PS: I am also beginning in the adobe world 🙂

[jayhawksean]

It's 2016 and the solution proposed here is silly and convoluted. Why is this step necessary:

Imported some new photos, directing them to be stored in a subfolder created in the new external hard drive G:. This folder, namely "My LR Photos", is intended to store all my photos in LR from now on. I figured this will force the G: drive to appear on the folder panel of my LR. It did.

LR should just be able to see the newly formatted and blank HD and list it as an option. I can see it on my desktop so it is visible to the system.