How hard is it to set up Elements/CS5 to access photo's off of portable hard drive so I can free up

I have down loaded approximately 4000 files to an external 1 terabite portable drive ( Western Digital, My Passport ) from my laptop to free up space. I would like to access the photo's for editing in both elements 11 and CS5, and Lightyear 3. I have not deleted the originals off of my laptop yet until I know it will work, or more correctly, how to make it work. When I connected the portable drive to the laptop afterwards, the downloader wanted to download the 4000+ photo's back on to my laptop. Specs- ASUS N53S, 8 mb Ram, Core i7, Windows 7, about 116 GB harddrive. Can anyone help me with the steps needed to make this work so that I can take the photo's of my laptops hard drive but still have easy access to them with the portable drive ? Thanks, Mike

Normally you can plug in the external drive and then simply drag and drop folders after clicking on the yellow pins in the Organizer left hand panel. You don’t say if you are using Organizer.
The complication is that if you are also using Lightroom 3 with the same image files, that will corrupt the file paths in the Lightroom Library. It would be easier if you are not using Organizer and restrict your file management to LR with CS5 and the PSE11 Editor set up as your external editing applications.
The safest method is probably to first select the 4000 images in LR3 and save XMP/Metadata to the files. Then move the images to My Passport and re-import into LR3. If that works satisfactorily you can delete the original folders from LR and click the button - Delete also from Disk.

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