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| p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Migrating files to larger HD on a Mac (Lightroom) | |
Folks,
I have an iMac and am using an external Akitio HD array with several drives in it for all my images and other files (the internal iMac HD is only for applications).
I want to migrate from a 2TB drive to a new larger drive, and am trying to figure out if there is an easy way to do this that won't break all the file location pointers in Lightroom and other software.
As I see it, there are at least 2 ways to do the file copying:
1. Install the new drive and copy the files over.
2. Clone the drive and then remove the old one.
I think that option #1 will cause LR to lose all the catalogue links and I'm not sure how much of a hassle it will be to make all the connections to my catalogue (which are in hundreds of directories and at well over 50,000 images at this point).
I think option #2 is possibly viable, but I don't know if it is possible to actually "clone" the drive, because I think that would lock it to the original size of the older drive, so it won't be useful for the migration to a larger HD. So what I need id a clone function that generates a new HD that looks just like the old one in terms of the drive naming and file structure so I can make the swap but not have it be an exact clone.
Is what I want to do possible through Disk Utility? CarbonCopyCloner? I could use either, but I can't seem to find info to address exactly what I want to do. The only things I find is for cloning a drive with the OS on it, and this is not specifically what I need, but maybe if I use a similar approach it will work. None appear to address whether the copied drive will function exactly like the original for the purposes of file linking, etc.
Anyone try to do this with success? I don't want to do this the hard way unless there is no decent cloning approach that will work.
Thanks,
---Michael
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