How to move LR catalog from one external hard drive to another

I'm having issues with the external hard drive that my LR5 catalog resides on, and I would like to move it to a new external hard drive.  I'm a little nervous to do this for fear of disrupting my catalog.  Can anyone give me the steps to do this safely?

You can move your catalog file using your operating system. Double-click on the file to open it.

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  • Cannot copy itunes from one external hard drive to another.

    I have been using an external hard drive for storing my itunes and iphoto for a while now. I have never experienced any issue copying it to a larger drive for back up. My current drive is only 80 gigs (LaCie) and is almost out of space. I bought a new g-tech 500gig mini drive to replace it. Every time that I try to move the files from the old drive to the new one, I get the following error message 10 gigs into the transfer-
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    I'm wanting to move thousands of raw photos from a folder in one external hard drive to another folder in a different external hard drive so all my photos are in one photo folder instead of two.  I've gone through the importing routine inside of lightroom to move the folder over to the new hard drive.  However, the photos don't move because they still show up on the old hard drive and not the new one.  What's weird is when I try to import it again, the grid view shows all the photos I'm wanting to import and when I move my cursor over any of the photos they are faded out and it says the photos are already imported.  However, if this is true why aren't they showing up in the new folder on my new external hard drive?  I know the new external hard drive works fine because I've successfully been putting all my newer photos there since I started using LR about one year ago.  The one's I'm trying to move over are older photos I shot try to using LR.
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    You wrote
    "Are you saying while I'm in LR just grab the folder I want to move and drop it into the new hard drive"
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  • How to move mt itunes library from one external hard drive to another

    I would like to move my itun4es library from my external hard drive H to external hard drive M; how do I go about this? without losing items

    Short version: use the itunes consolidate command
    Long version: read this
    http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/

  • HT1589 iMac:  How do I move my iTunes folder from one external hard drive to another external drive?

    Due to file size reasons, I found myself several years ago with the need to move my iTunes Library from my desktop's internal drive to an external drive [which I also used via partition for a backup of my internal drive]  I now have to move to a different external hard drive -- again for more space.  I've copied the iTunes Library to the new drive, but can't seem to get iTunes to recognize and run it.
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  • How do I copy my  music from one external hard drive to another one?

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    Drag the entire iTunes folder to the new HD.
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