A related question: When moving a big directory tree, am I better moving the whole tree in lightroom? Or am I better off moving it with the file system, then just telling lightroom where the root of that tree is?
On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > Last weekend, when photographing at a dojo event, I ran out of space on the > harddrive that I've been using for my raw files. So, I put the raw files > from the weekend onto an external drive. > > When I was at Costco today, they had a good price on a 3TB USB3 external > drive, so I picked it up to be for just my raw files. I've been using > lightroom to copy directory trees over from the old (Mixed use) drive to the > new (just photo) drive. I've been running into some problems when part of a > directory tree is already there and I can't just copy the top of the > remaining tree over because the top level directory already exists. But, I'm > solving those hiccups. > > I've got a bunch of files on the external drive, but rather than moving them > to the new drive, I want to copy them, and just tell lightroom to use the > copy, that way I've got all of the files in a convenient place for me to > share with other people. How do I go about this? > > I think I've seen something about it, but don't remember where, or how to > find it. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
