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Sorry for the noob question.
I did searches and was getting different answers.
Im working with a MSI workstation laptop and have limited onboard space (512GB).
I have a 5TB external drive that has all my photos and videos.
I want to use LR with this external drive.
I want to add all photos (about 75K) to LR so I can organize, search, edit, etc but it keeps wanting me to add the photos to the laptop drive and its quite obvious that I cant because of space.
Am I just overlooking something obvious or am I hitting a limitation?
I mainly need to organize my photos via name/date and/or Exif data then go to edit them.
Or should I look at another program to get organized with?
Thanks
{Moved from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom ecospace by moderator}
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First off, that program name, Lightroom. Can be confusing thanks to Adobe Marketing.
What exact program do you have
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Hi GoldingD,
I have the cloud version. 4.3
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You can't place the library anywhere else. It is hardwired to be in your Pictures folder on the internal drive. You can specify a different location for copies of the originals however. Lightroom also uses this location for temporary copies during import, so it is useful to change this location even if you do not ask Lightroom to save a local copy of the originals.
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/EDIT/THE FOLLOWIN DOES NOT APPLY TO Lr v4.3/
Second off, assuming Lightroom Classic (LrC)
Lightroom Classic, runs on your computer, it uses a database called a catalog kept on your computer. It uses photos normally stored on your computer, but they can be anywhere..
As to what hard drives or other storage media you can use:
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P.S.
Keep good backups of your catalog, preferably to multiple drives, defiantly not on the same drive as the catalog resides on.
Keep good backups of your photos. They are not in the catalog. Backing up the catalog does not back up the photos
No reason to backup Library Prwviews , LrC will recreate them if need be.
Keep copys of any presets, add-ins you acquire, they are not in the catalog..