Advice on connecting external drive with all of my media

My old computer stopped working and I took out the drive that contained all of my photos and videos that I use with LR and I am now using the drive as a bare bones drive connected to a docking station to another Mac.
The Lightroom folder was on another drive of the broken computer, so I copied that entire folder to the desktop of the new Mac. Everything seemed to open on its own when I opened Lightroom on the new Mac.
I want to add LOTS of new photos to LR, and I just want to check to make sure that this workflow will not cause any problems before I begin.
1. I plan to just copy new photos to the bare bones drive in the docking station and add keywords to them in LR, and when I'm done, eject the drive and place it into a protective case.
2. The Lightroom folder containing the catalog is currently on my desktop, it was previously stored on the other Mac inside the Pictures folder. I might keep it on the desktop for now, though I might move it somewhere else later. Are there any issues with moving it around like this?
Thanks.

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[1] I found this response to the question about Aperture and external hard drives from last May. I bought a WD My Book 4TB and need to back up photos I have in Aperture (many!) to free up space.
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