Hi, how to I move or migrate hard drives to another hard drive in lightroom and keep my info?

Hi All. I have several hard drives. Say D, E and F. I want to migrate or move the folders that are listaed under each harddrive in my lightroom to say Hard Drive G. How do I do this so that all my keywords, and selects and color codes move with it? and that in lightroom G hard drive would be my only hard drive listed? I want to do this to get everything nice and orderly
Donald Bowers
646-246-2067
www.donaldbowers.com
djbphoto.blogspot.com
http://beautifulimagecompany.com/

You have to understand that LR does not store anything in the image folders (unless you use save to XMP) but stores everything in its catalog. All your edits, your titles, captions, keywords, color labels, collections, etc - in short EVERYTHING that LR does - is stored in the catalog. That`s why the catalog is as important as your image files, and you should know its location and backup it regularly.
LR stores in the catalog also the location of image files. That's why it is best if you do all your image management (like renaming photos, folders and/or moving them) in LR and not outside of LR (for instance via your OS).
In your case: In LR in the Grid Mode just drag-and-drop the folders to the drive you want it to be.
Alternatively: Create one parent folder for all the folders that you want to move. Do this in LR. Then in your OS (Mac Finder / Win Explorer) move this parent folder to another drive.
In LR this parent folder (and all its sub-folders) will now show question marks besides them. That is expected since you moved the folder outside of LR and now there is a discrepancy between the situation on your hard drive and the LR catalog. To solve this in LR  you have to right-click the parent folder and select <Update folder location>. Navigate to the new location of the parent folder and click on it. LR will then find all the sub-folders on its own, provided that you have not changed the folder structure or the folder names.
WW
PS: Since all the LR edits are stored in the catalog, the move of the image files does not affect the LR edits.

Similar Messages

  • I have a seagate 1tb hard drive and a 16gb memory stick, how do i transfer avi files from one to another as the click drag and drop wont work, please help?

    i have a seagate 1tb hard drive and a 16gb memory stick, how do i transfer avi files from one to another as the click drag and drop wont work, please help?

    Greetings,
    What happens when you drag it?
    Make sure the drive you are moving the files to has enough available space to receive the file:
    Click on the movie file and go to File >  Get Info and note the "size"
    Check the drive to which you are moving the file to make sure it has enough available space: https://idisk.me.com/madisonfile-Public/web/finder-drive-available-space-and-for mat.html
    Also note the format of the drive you are copying too.  If it is not Mac OS Extended or FAT (not recommended unless you are taking it to a windows computer) then that may be the issue.
    Hope that helps.

  • How do I move files from one album to another?

    How can I move files from one album to another? And why does itunes split up imported folders?

    Press the Command key while dragging them.
    (58054)

  • TS3274 How do I move icons from one screen to another?

    How do I move icons from one screen to another. 

    Hold down on one icon until they start shaking, then drag the icon to the edge of the screen, and the screen should slide to the next one, you can then drop it on that screen or drag it again to the edge to move to the next screen.
    Page 21 of the user guide explains this under Arranging Apps:
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/ipad_user_guide.pdf

  • How do I move clips from one Event to another?

    How do I move clips from one Event to another?
    As soon as I got the new iMovie, I started importing clips and making video's. Unfortunately, I hadn't fully understood the Events feature, so all of my clips are in a single "New Event" Event. I have now created several other Events and named them properly and would like to sort all of my clips into their proper "Event" folders. How do you do that?

    Ahh, Ok. I actually had to go to Lynda.com to watch a training video of this highly bassackwards maneuver, but now I have it. In other words, while the intuitive thing is to make a new event to hold the clip you want and then open the old event and drag the clip into it's new event, the only way to accomplish this maneuver is to NOT create a new event, but rather, go to the clip AFTER the one you want to move, select it and then Right-Click on it and select SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP (or go to FILE>SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP). Then you wait a few seconds while the program thinks a bit (no feedback it is doing this - just a pause) and then it automatically creates a new event with the clip you wanted. Now just double-click the new event and name it something meaningful.
    Thanks for your help!

  • How do I move pictures from one library to another?

    How do I move pictures from one library to another?

    For just a few export them out of Library A via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option with Kind = Original and import them into Library B.
    However, this will not include any edits or metadata (keywords, titles, etc.) that you've added.
    To get the original image, any edits and all metadata, keywords, titles, descriptions, places, etc., you'll need the paid version of  iPhoto Library Manager.  It can copy albums or events from one library to another and keep those items I mentioned earlier with the photos.
    OT

  • How do i move pictures from one iphone to another?

    How do I move pictures from one iphone to another?

    Photos in the Camera Roll are included with the iPhone's backup. You can transfer the backup from one iPhone to another which will include all data included with the backup.
    Photos and videos in the Camera Roll can be imported by your computer. After importing from one iPhone, the photos can be transferred to another iPhone via the iTunes sync process.
    Photos in the PhotoStream on one iPhone running iOS 6 can be made available on another iPhone running iOS 6 by creating a shared PhotoStream album, or if the same iCloud account is accessed on both iPhones, the PhotoStream album will be identical on each iPhone.

  • How do I move apps from one page to another?

    How do I move apps from one page to another?

    From a previous thread:
    Touch and hold any icon for a couple of seconds. They'll all start to wobble. Touch and drag the one you want to move to the side of the screen and the next screen will appear; drop the icon on whatever screen you want it on.
    You can also do it quicker in iTunes - connect the phone and click the Apps tab in the main window. You'll see a picture of your phone with the apps laid out. Just click and drag

  • How do you move icons from one page to another?

    How do you move icons from one page to another?

    hold down on an app till everything start shaking then move it to one side of the ipad and it'll change "pages" after a second or two.

  • HT1373 how do I move songs form one account to another account?

    how do I move songs form one account to another account?

    Only sequentially. Each time you switch accounts, it will overwite the existing content with the new content.  As AnaMusic says, you cannot sync one device with two AppleID accounts at the same time, or even with the same AppleID on different computers for the same type of content (you could, for example, sync music to one computer, and calendars to a different computer, but not music to two different computers, even if they're the same AppleID). 
    Also, if you want to *re-download* content directly form the iTunes store (assuming it's an iPod Touch), you can only change IDs every 90 days.

  • How do you move pictures from one album to another

    how do you move pictures from one album to another?

    Pictures can appear in any number of albums.
    To move from one album to another, add the picture to the new album and then right click on the picture, select Remove from album and then select the album you want to remove it from.
    If you need further help, please let us know which version of Photoshop Elements you are using and which operating system you are running on.
    Brian

  • How do you move pictures from one catalog to another?

    How do you move pictures from one catalog to another?  I have just got the program and have moved pictures into the default catalog. I have now created several new catalogs and want to move pics from the default into the new catalogs. I don't see this answer in the general help or my "dummies" book.

    pspack1 wrote:
    How do you move pictures from one catalog to another?  I have just got the program and have moved pictures into the default catalog. I have now created several new catalogs and want to move pics from the default into the new catalogs. I don't see this answer in the general help or my "dummies" book.
    It's not a good idea to create multiple catalogs. For one thing, this defeats the purpose of the Organizer as a way to search for and find your photos; the search can only operate within a single catalog. Also, there are no functions in PSE that work across multiple catalogs. And even though you can "manually" combine the catalogs if you so desire, you lose information such as collection/album membership, stacks, version sets, creations and a few other things.

  • I have bought and been using the 'Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard'. How do i move this from one laptop, to another laptop?

    I have bought and been using the 'Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard'.
    How do i move this from one laptop, to another laptop?
    I require this for uni, and am struggling to move it across!
    If you can help that would be great

    Hi 7717arrow,
    Please use the below link to download CS6 Design standard on the new machine.
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cs6-product-downloads.html
    Use the same serial no. to activate the product.
    Thanks

  • How Do I Move Local OneDrive Storage Folder to Another Location?

    Howdy,
    I've just installed the new 9926 build and wanted to sync my OneDrive data. I am using native VHD boot and so OneDrive setup wizard automatically chose the local
    %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive folder as a local storage for the data obtained from OneDrive.
    However, I don't want the data to be stored on my VHD drive. The OneDrive wizard didn't provide any Back button to change settings for the local storage location, so I had to use the location I've chosen.
    Now how do I move the OneDrive folder to another location? Previously you could right-click OneDrive folder, chose Properties and change the location on the Location tab. Now there isn't such a tab.
    Is it a step back in usability for OneDrive feature?
    How do I move local OneDrive cache folder to another location?
    Thank you.
    Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given...

    I've found out that you have to unlink OneDrive from your PC and repeat configuration steps to change the location of OneDrive folder on your PC, just like you did so in pre-Windows 8.1 builds.
    Is it a new behavior and MSFT wants to get rid of Location feature in newer Windows 10 builds, or it is just a temporary issue because some parts of Windows 10 TP code are based on pre-Windows 8.1 codebase?
    Thank you.
    See also
    Move the OneDrive Folder
    Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given...

  • C drive is full how do I move iTunes to d drive?

    How do I move iTunes from one drive to another? My c drive is full I changed my preferences to d, yet I still can not back up my iPhone or iPad. I think I need to move iTunes I am just not sure if I should uninstall from c and reinstall to d?  Any suggestions or help.
    Thank you
    Sue

    Copy the entire iTunes folder from your music folder to D:\iTunes.
    Click the icon to start iTunes and immediately press and hold down the shift key. Keep holding until asked to choose or create a library.
    Click Choose and navigate to the file D:\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl
    Check the library is working properly.
    Use the option File > Library > Organize Library > Consolidate Files to import any stay files to the new library folder.
    Delete the old iTunes folder on the C: drive.
    Ideally you will also backup this library to another drive.
    tt2

Maybe you are looking for

  • What is virtual limit of Java?

    I hadn't actually tested the memory limitations of the jvm before and I was taking the word of others (and I didn't have access to Sun boxes always either.) So I decided to test the limits today. Windows: -NT -1.0 gig memory limit (512 physical, 512

  • How to create placeholder garphics with unique filenames shown as text?

    I need to create quite a few placeholder graphics, which are all the same size and background colour, and which show the filename of the graphic as text in the graphic. Later each will be replaced. I have the filename list but am not sure how I would

  • Unable to retrive the email id of the internet sales user who curren logged

    Hi friends, I need to send a email to the customer support email id  while changing the ship to address, from the currently logged "Internet User" email id in the order screen Is there any class/method there in ISA API so that it retrives the current

  • Mp3 player for my site

    hi i am v e r y novice to flash. i need the simplest mp3 player for my site. single track as background. just "play" and "stop" buttons. a level button will be nice. is there a something simple i can put on my site? thanks very much lenny

  • My N8 not updating Emailbox????

    Hello All, My facing problem to update my mailbox in my N8. I create ovi,yahoo,gmail account throguh default mailbox(Email). Even it create the account succesfully. But not sychronizing the mail. I am using WLAN for connection.Plz give me suggestion.