Moving and splitting photos - catalog questions

Until recently, all my photos were On one disc with one Lightroom catalog. Now there are too many photos for a single disc, so I split them into two discs and created a new catalog to deal with the two different locations. Of course, I immediately lost all of my light room edits. I have plenty of backups, so nothing was truly lost now the question:
How do I keep one Lightroom catalog while splitting the photos into two drives, AND keep all my edits, virtual copies, etc?
Right now, the restored catalog contains all the edits, but half the photos aren't where the catalog expects them to be. What is the easiest and safest way to do this?
Running Lightroom CC, windows 7/64, all software up-to-date.
Thanks,
EdB

A single Lightroom catalog can support photos stored on multiple disks, even offline photos. If you want to move photos from one disk to another you can do the moves within Lightroom. If you choose to do the move in the OS then you can relink the photos. In short, it can all be done with a single catalog.
See this:Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

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This is what Windows does and I find that format very convenient for organizing and viewing photo files, especially those that I have not yet tagged.
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You can add titles to photos, yes. But as the date and time of the photo are already in the Exif, using those in the name of the photo is a bit redundant.
Will I be able to edit photo properties, such as date taken, within iPhoto if I discover that a photo is incorrectly organized?
Yes.
It's a bit to take in I know, and I always suggest to people that the best thing is to create a library on their Mac, import a couple of hndred pics and explore what it does (and doesn't), and see if it works for you.
iPhoto uses a lot of virtualisation. Photos are stored in the Library. (Events are just one of two possible views of the Library). Albums reference photos in the Library. So a shot can be in any number of albums and use no extra disk space. Keywording is also very powerful. Here’s a stock answer I use for folks when wondering what iPhoto can do:
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