Drag and drop them within Lightroom. That way you won't have to "fix" anything in Lightroom.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > My taking photos every day project has started to fill up hard drive space > so quickly, to the extent that I need to move it somewhere bigger. This > doesn't even cover the scanning of photos & slides. I have backup drives > which are large, but I've just got a 5Tb drive to move Lightroom onto. > > Now, I'm not the best at computer related activities, but it seems I can set > up said new drive as a new folder within Lightroom, and drag and drop the > contents of the old drive onto the new. This will take some hours to move > the images. Having relocated the pictures, I then have to tell Lightroom to > recognise that all the pictures are there, and that's where it should look > for them. I have no doubt the procedure is hidden in a large book on > Lightroom I have. > > All I really want to know is if someone here has already had to do this, and > aside from the long copying time, did all go OK? > > Malcolm > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
