That will work just fine. It's better to move a LARGE number of files this way, rather than from inside Lightroom in the Folders panel.
Just be sure that you use the function to "Show Parent Folder" until the root of the photos' directory tree is visible in the Folders panel so that you can reassign all of the image file locations in one action. G On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Jan van Wijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A question for the Lightroom experts on the list ... > > I have been collecting all my RAW files from the last 5 or 6 years into > Lightroom, > and am getting to the point where the internal disk (750Gb) of the iMAC is > getting > to full for comfort. > > So because of that, and to gain some extra speed as well I hope, I got myself > a fast 2Tb external drive, connected through Firewire-800. > > I would like to move ALL the actual images to that new drive, and keep the > Lightroom catalog (and its previews) on the internal disk. > > What is the easiest way to accomplish that ? > > All images are under a single directory on my data volume, say: > > /MerlinData/foto > > There are 33000 images, totalling almost 400Gb in size. > > Since I want to keep them on the internal drive too for now (as a backup) > I want to copy the whole tree to the new drive OUTSIDE of Lightroom. > Then in Lightroom, in its folder pane in Library, use "Update Folder > Location..." > to have it point to the new location on the other disk. > > Is that a good way to do this ? > Any gothcha's, or better ways ? > > > FYI, this is Lightroom 3.6, to be upgraded to 4.0 sometime next week. > > > TIA for any hints and tips, JvW > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery > > > -- > 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.
