When reorganize all photos onto a new computer, what is best folder location for catalog?

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January 22, 2023
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When choosing to reorganize all photos onto a new computer, what is the best folder location for the catalog in relation to the photos? The new location of all photos will be in many sub-folders of one hard drive. I want to make the next move simpler than the last move. The photos were on three different hard drives and I would rather never make that mistake again.

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dj_paige

Legend

Perhaps you could, instead of asking for "best folder" which doesn't exist, explain what problems you have had that you would like to avoid in the future.

I agree with the others, that (except in special cases) catalog goes on the fastest drive.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

There is no 'best folder location'. The best drive is as @Ian Lyons said, the fastest drive (so usually your internal drive), but the folder is irrelevant. Choose a folder that is logical to you. The default folder that Lightroom Classic uses is your Pictures folder and that does make sense (to me).

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

You should put the catalog on your fastest drive with SSD or NVME being better options than a traditional hard drive. Typically, this will be the computers internal drive.

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