Lightroom moving difficulties from external to other external drives.

Okay, well here goes. I guess i don't fully understand how Lightroom 5 uses the pictures and a separate cat properly. I set up lightroom 5 on a Laptop (Macbook pro)and used it for about 3 years so i have 2012 2103 and 2014 folders inside. After watching a couple of videos, dragged the parent folder, within lightroom to an external drive. I took the drive to my new iMac i would like to work from mainly, where i installed lightroom 5, connected the drive, basically had a faff around, not sure exactly what i did and somehow managed to see all my photos and all the edits on my iMac just fine, perfect. Although the external drive is a 1TB and i now have a 3 TB i would like to move this too and use the 1TB for backups only. I made a new folder in the 3TB called Lightroom, so the drive now shows up inside lightroom..but when i drag the parent folder with 20000 images in over to the new folder in the 3TB(inside lightroom) it says i cannot move the folder with all my photos as it contains the lightroom catalogue......I opened the 1TB drive and in the lightroom filer with all my images is a backups folder, not sure why thats there. There is about 8 backup folders in there...Can somebody please help explain what i might have done?/ what i need to do to do this without ruining everything! Thanks

where is my actual catalogue now? my current one i am using. It has to be on that 1TB right?
Your actual catalog can be located via Lightroom->Catalog Settings->General tab
No, it does not have to be on the 1TB drive
I clicked on catalogue settings and clicked 'show' and it pointed to one of the folders inside that backup folder on the 1TB...i thought they were backups?? Where should my catalogue be?
Your catalog can go anywhere on any attached hard drive (not a networked hard drive) but usually you would put it on the fastest drive available, which would be your internal drive.
I tried taking the Folder out of the 1TB that is named Backups but then when i open lightroom it says the current catalogue is missing and asks for me to open a new one. So i put it back in the 1TB folder in the same place and opened lightroom went to recent catalogues and chose it, its back and all is intact.
You are going to have to move the working catalog file out of that folder. Even though you have found what appears to be the working catalog in the Backups folder, that is the working catalog. Move it to somewhere else, outside of the LIghtroom folder, using your operating system, and then double-click on it to open Lightroom.

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