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kirbinster
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p.1 #1 · Lightroom file moving help needed


Alas I have run out of disk space on my D: drive and need to move my lightroom pictures to another drive. Every time I have tried this in the past I have run into a mess in that LR tells me it can't find the photos and I had to click on each and every photo to show it the new locations. I have way too many photos to do that anymore, thus I need some help to get this right the first time. I would like to move everything from my D: drive to my R: drive. How do I do this so as to not mess things up. Do I do this by moving the files with windows explorer or do I do it in lightroom. What has to be done so LR immediately sees everything in the new location with no problems?

Jul 05, 2009 at 02:03 PM
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p.1 #2 · Lightroom file moving help needed


you MUST move the files/folders from WITHIN Lightroom via the LIbrary module, left side

where 'must' means 'if you dont want to endlessly 'fix' things'

Edited on Jul 05, 2009 at 04:59 PM · View previous versions


Jul 05, 2009 at 02:47 PM
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p.1 #3 · Lightroom file moving help needed


Or you move them outside of Lightroom and relink them. If you're going to do that, make sure the folders are in a nice tidy hierarchy so that you only need to relink the top level folder.

Jul 05, 2009 at 04:45 PM
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p.1 #4 · Lightroom file moving help needed


I've done it before in a nice tidy hierarchy but it still made me rerecognize each directory and even each picture in the directory

Jul 05, 2009 at 04:56 PM
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p.1 #5 · Lightroom file moving help needed


How did you do it before then? You have to right-click on the parent folder and relocate that. If you do a subfolder or single image first, it'll make you do them all individually.

Jul 05, 2009 at 07:58 PM
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p.1 #6 · Lightroom file moving help needed


Oh, I see the right-click option now - Don't think it was there when I last tried it in old version 1.4. So if my pictures are in a directory called d:\LR pictures\2008\ do I create a directory R:\LR Pictures\ and then relocate "d:\LR Pictures\2008\" there or do I just relocate "d:\LR Pictures\2008\" to R:\ ??

Jul 05, 2009 at 08:42 PM
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p.1 #7 · Lightroom file moving help needed


If you can see the LR Pictures folder in the hierarchy, then you just right click on that and point it to R:\LR Pictures and you should be all set.

One tip - duplicate or back up your catalog before you transfer, and then if you mess it up, you just put your backup back!

Jul 06, 2009 at 08:16 AM

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