How to move all graphic files to another hard drive?

Sorry that I do not even understand the program well enough to use the specific terms but my wife is using Photoshop Elements 4 and has thousands of graphic files. She wants to move them all to another hard drive to free up space on C drive.
1 - How do we move all the files without confusing the organizer? My wife found a move function but still has two problems: 1- Can't figure out how to tell the program where to put the files (seems like it may have just created another copy on C drive). 2- the organizer has to reconnect to every single file that is moved - a process that takes hours.
2 - How do we change the settings so that Elements will store files on the new G drive instead of continuing to put everything on C drive? Most of her new files are camera uploads and scans.
3 - After we get the files set up on G drive, is there an easy way to identify and remove the old files on the C drive? (Judging from the amount of space that is filling up on the C drive, it seems that the program must have duplicated the files on C drive in our previous attempts to move files.)

I can help with some of this...
The simple way to move the files is using Folder View. You can then simply drag and drop images - or whole folders - to the new drive. It will take a little while to sort out the catalog, but nothing painful. No reconnecting is necessary.
Go to Edit/Preferences. There is a setting there that determines where image files are stored.

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