How do I get a newly exported catalog to point to files on an external drive?

I am running LR v3.4.1.  I have had a single catalog for a long time and it has really effected performance, so I am wanting to move some files out into a separate catalog.  Currently, my catalog is on my C: drive, but all of my pictures are on my K: drive, which is external.  When I do the export as catalog, it creates the new catalog on my C: drive, but also creates a copy of all of the photos there as well.  I want to point the catalog back to the original files on my K: drive so I can remove the ones created during the export process on my C: drive.  Can someone help?

I figured it out with the help of a post from a few days ago.  Although posted for a different problem, I followed these steps from Cornelia-I and it worked like a charm:
You can change the link of LR to the images from the network drive to your local drive, best done on parent folder level: right-click the highest folder in library left panel, and choose update storage location. In the opening dialog window point it to your internal folder.

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