All Photos Showing in Catalog. None in Local Drive. Trying to transfer to External HD

I have LR 5 and my hard drive is getting full. I have an external drive and I want to transfer photos to it. I know you have to use LR to do the transfer because if I use Explorer then LR would not know where to look for photos. My problem is I have no photos listed in the Folders section of LR Local Drive C:. How do I get my photos in there so I can transfer ? Or can I transfer them using Catalog ?

My problem is I have no photos listed in the Folders section of LR Local Drive C:.
Photos should not be listed in the Folders section, only folders should be listed there. Are there no folders? If the folders are there, you can drag them to another drive. Generally, it is advisable to drag the top level folder to another drive and this will cause all subfolders under that top level folder to also be moved to the other drive.
A better solution, in my opinion, is to move the photos to the external drive using your operating system and then re-connect in Lightroom as explained here: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

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