Organizer Export to external harddrive

Thanks a lot.

I did the backup already to secure the data but haven’t been able to move the organizer in order to use it from an external hard drive. As always, I didn’t even consider an option as easy as drag and drop

I’ll try first thing tomorrow morning

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bettinad34354973 wrote

Export Organizer to external Harddrive - Is there any way to do this without loosing my tags? My Mac is about to explode So, I'd really like to use an external harddrive for my Organizer. Any Tips are highly appreciated. Elements 15

'Export' means creating a copy for external use on your computer. The 'Export' command can resize, change format, rename. But the resulting files are not includedin the catalog by default.

What you want is to move the files from a drive to another. Two ways for that purpose:

- In the left folders panel (in tree view) drag and drop folders from a drive to another. The subfolders are moved as well. You can test on a small folder or move all your images folder trees.

- A safer way implies making a full backup from the organizer menu to an external drive (an obvious safety measure anyway); then restoring from that external drive backup folder to the final external drive you want to move your pictures.

Move Elements Organizer catalog

As a result you still have your original files and catalog on your Mac, a useful backup, and a copy of your catalog and image files on the external drive (with updated links). When you are sure all is well, use your Finder to delete the pictures files on your Mac to free space.

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