You should be able to have Lightroom move them to the new drive, so it would already know where the photos are located. I know you can do that with Adobe Bridge, so Lightroom should have the same capability.
On 4/15/2016 9:38 AM, Malcolm Smith 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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