How do I consolidate two volumes?

Friends:
My Catalog "somehow" has become distributed over two volumes A and B.  A has 60,000 and B has 5,000 files.  How do I consolidate the volumes?  [I want A to have all 65,000 images]
(Later I want the other of the volumes to simply be a bakup)
I would like to add that volumes A and B are my Master Library, each of which is subdivided into folders for years and within each year there are folders for each event.  The two volumes have the same hierarchy of folders.
Please share your strategy and enlighten me.
Thanks a million!
Migs

I see. The situation that LR does not display the same folders and/or images as are on the hard drive occurs because changes have been made outside of LR.
LR is depebdent on its data base (the "Catalog") and does not just "see" what is on the hard drive. When you change the image folders outside of LR will not "see" the new situation - so you get one thing on your hard drive and another thing in LR.
Because LR works that way, it is best if you do all of your image management - moving and renaming folders and images - in LR only. Then Lr will always display the correct situation.
Now to your situation:
You say that your drives A und B have exactly the same content. So - on the hard drive level - one drive is a backup of the other. That is OK because you want a backup for your images.
So don't change anything on your drives.
For LR you have to decide: Do you want only one set of images - those on drive A or on drive B - in LR?
Or do you want to have both identical sets of images in LR?
LR is not designed to manage true duplicates - files that have the same file name. It is OK as long as duplicates are in different folders or on different drives.
Therefore I suggest that it is easiest if you have only one drive in LR.
If you opt for having only one of the drives in LR then right-click your drive B (the one with only 5000) photos and select <Remove>.
If you want both of your drives in LR, then right-click your drive B (the one with only 5000 photos) and select <Synchronize folder>. Synchronize folder will import photos (and folders) that are on the drive but not in LR and will remove photos (and folders) that are not on the drive.
WW

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