I've gone through this many times.
1. Make a back-up of your images before you do anything.
2. If you use Lightroom to move the photos to the new location, then there is
no need to reassociate your LR database/catalog with the images because LR
knows where it put them.
3. I presume you are just moving the images to your new drive, not the LR
application or catalog? Those two should stay on your main drive for the sake
of processing speed.
4. If you want to get really wild and crazy…
a. you can split the location of your images. I don’t think LR cares.
b. On my internal hard drive, I currently have my 2016 and 2015
folders. The 2014 and earlier have been moved to a secondary drive.
c. My logic is that I am much less likely to be accessing the older
files, and so the extra search/retrieval of secondary storage doesn’t become an
issue all that often. And so far I have been able to accommodate the two
most-recent years’ images within my primary drive. As files get bigger I may
need to start doing six-month rather than one-year chunks.
stan
> On 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
>
>
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