Lightroom catalog and activity on different hard drive

New to Lr. I have downloaded the 30-day trial and the process is so automated that I doesn't provide an opportunity to install on a drive other than the boot drive (C:\) . I have a very small solid state drive that I use only for my OS and other key programs. I have a 2TB drive for data.
How can I force the program and catalogs onto the larger data drive? If my only option is to work from the C:\ drive this will be a deal breaker for me.

It's pretty easy to have the catalog file and photos on the 2TB drive, that's what takes up most of the space.
I don't know if you can install LR CC to a different drive, I never tried.

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I am using my 1tb hard drive with mac and windows and while checking the space remaining, my mac says roughly 600gb left and my windows comp. says about 500gb left. I am just wondering which one of the storage remaining statements is correct and why they both show different numbers (by 100gb)? If it helps, this also happens to my 16gb flash drive. mac says 10 gb left, and windows says less space left (dont remember actual number, but was roughly 6-8).
Just asking becuase I want to know why such a big difference in size remaining. Could it have to do with the way each OS sees what defines the harddrive as full?
if it matters, my hdd format is MS-DOS (FAT32).
Thanks a lot,
krm1897

haha its been 2 years. And no, i didn't figure it out, but i speculate it may have to do how Mac OSX and Windows reads the FAT file system (my tb hdd was FAT formatted so i could use it on both OS) and calculates remaining space.
That may be right, or it may be completely wrong lol
krm1897

Updating LR5 Catalog to use different hard drive

Just bought a new PC. All files (same folder structure) moved from D: to E:. How do I update LR5 catalog to "point" to different hard drive? Thanks for any and all help.

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

Synching Lightroom with 2 different hard drives....

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Almost every post I see here is about people needing to sync Lightroom with 2 different computers, but I'd like to know if anyone can tell me how to get the same exact images on two different hard drives to show up in Lightroom with all of my Lightroom develop settings. I need this as I have so many images and only a 500GB SSD on my MacBook Pro that I just store all of my finished work on an external drive, the problem is that when I leave my home I tend to not take that drive with me for safety reasons, but if I do need access to the actual images on my catalog I'm screwed! So I recently purchased a portable external drive to copy all of my images onto it "with" all of my Lightroom develop setting but for the life of me I can't get the images to show up in the new drive with my Develop settings applied to them. When I open the images in that new drive in Lightroom using the same computer only the original untouched RAW and Jpeg files show up just as they came out of the camera which is useless to me as I need to see them as I Developed them in Lightroom. Can anyone please help......
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The way I would probably do this is to keep the files I am currently working on on the internal drive of the computer. Older source images are kept in the external drive. The LR catalog is on the internal HD. When I am done with the current images, they are exported to JPG with the edits applied. The source images are then transferred to the external drive. This file move can be done inside of LR or done outside then relinked.
Source image files can only exist in one place as far as the catalog goes. Images stored on the external drive will be available when the drive is attached and not available when detached.
The exported JPG files can be stored on the internal drive for quick presentations. Delete them as space is needed. Recreate them as desired from the external drive.
Using external drives for older images that are not needed frequently is a common scenario for LR.

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How can I move one years worth of raw photo files to a different hard drive (to manage space) and preserve the develope module edits and still see them in the Library module?

The easiest situation, is where this year's worth of images is grouped physically inside one parent folder (something many people build in from the start, in any case).
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I have lost Lightroom 5.6 due to a hard drive crash. The old hard drive has been replaced. How can I get LR5 back? I don't have a disc. I still have my LR4 disc and key. I have another adobe key, but don't know if it relates to LR5.

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John Carden <[email protected]>

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you can find by internet search for "download Lightroom", or click here:
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Regards BJB

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How can I get all of my music off of my laptop and onto an external hard drive? I bought a new hard drive for it but it got turned into a Time Machine drive...

how can I get all of my music off of my laptop and onto an external hard drive? I bought a new hard drive for it but it got turned into a Time Machine drive... I want to have all of my music on the external hard drive, and NOT on my macbook pro. Thanks everyone

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449
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