On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Wrote a complete article on exactly this subject some time ago: > > http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ click on "08 - Lightroom, moving a > large number of files"
Thanks. I wish I had asked first before starting. Changing halfway through would, I think, cause more problems than it would solve. Maybe this will save some other people some grief. At least it will help the next time I need to do something like this. > > G > > On Thursday, July 14, 2011, Larry Colen <[email protected]> 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. >> > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > 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.
