Moving photos to a new hard drive - PSE 5 vs. PSE 8

I have PSE 5 and have filled my primary drive to capacity. I've installed a new larger drive and intend to move my files to it. Based on reviewing posts in this forum, I may leave the Catalog file on my primary drive. I am also considering upgrading to PSE 8. In reviewing the options of how to move files to the new drive, I had a thought - is there any advantage in upgrading to PSE 8 before I move the files to the new drive? I am not sure PSE 5 has the same features as PSE 8 to facilitate the move, and I fear a mistake would be costly (in time) with over 30,000 files in the Catalog. I also have slideshows and video creations that I want to be sure make a smooth, uneventful transition. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks. I am not familiar with Folder Location View. I just went there and am not certain how I would move source files from one drive to another using that feature. I see under Folder Location View how I would designate where files are saved (under Files, Folders for saved files). If I direct this to the new drive, is it going to move all the files from my C drive to the new drive? I'm not sure I would expect it to do that. Your advice is appreciated.

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How do I free up space on my C drive by moving photos to a separate hard drive on the same pc?

I need to free up space on my C Drive by moving photos to Seagate expansion (H) drive. Currently use Windows Vista and elements 11 where I have organiser containing folders and albums which I want to keep intact after the move. Photos are currently held in C:users, valued customer, pictures. I’m pretty ignorant on how to do this but have tried to read and follow the FAQs and previous advice and think I have some understanding(!) I have made a catalog back up onto a separate Seagate expansion drive (F) and although the files appear to have been renamed as ‘B0000001’ for example, I believe this is normal and I can also see a backup.tly and a catalog.buc file so I’m assuming the backup was successful. I think I need to take the following steps;
1. drag and drop the folders containing my photos from the C drive into the (H) drive. (Does this have to be completed one folder at a time or can they all be highlighted and dragged and dropped in the same action)?
2. As I’m not changing computer then I’m assuming I don’t need to restore the catalog?
3. At this point I won’t have deleted anything off the C drive so how do I ensure the catalog establishes links with the photos that are now on the (H) drive if they’re still on the C drive?
4. Once I know the photos are safely on the (H) drive and all links to the catalog have been established I’ll take a new backup of the catalog onto the separate Seagate expansion drive (F)
5. Do I need to take a separate backup of the photos which are now on the (H) drive?
6. I’ll then delete the photos on the C drive.
7. In future any new photos I take and import into Element 11 organiser, I’ll save on the (H) drive.
Have I got the steps right? Any help would be appreciated as I don’t want to lose anything.
Thanks.

It's much simpler:
Dekka1 a écrit:
I need to free up space on my C Drive by moving photos to Seagate expansion (H) drive. Currently use Windows Vista and elements 11 where I have organiser containing folders and albums which I want to keep intact after the move. Photos are currently held in C:users, valued customer, pictures. I’m pretty ignorant on how to do this but have tried to read and follow the FAQs and previous advice and think I have some understanding(!) I have made a catalog back up onto a separate Seagate expansion drive (F) and although the files appear to have been renamed as ‘B0000001’ for example, I believe this is normal and I can also see a backup.tly and a catalog.buc file so I’m assuming the backup was successful.
Yes, the renaming is normal and the fact you can see a backup.tly file is good. However, even if you are 99% sure that the backup is ok, the only way to be 100% sure would be to restore somewhere else... (being somewhat paranoid!)
I think I need to take the following steps;
1. drag and drop the folders containing my photos from the C drive into the (H) drive. (Does this have to be completed one folder at a time or can they all be highlighted and dragged and dropped in the same action)?
Dragging a master folder also drags its subfolders, no problem.
2. As I’m not changing computer then I’m assuming I don’t need to restore the catalog?
No, no need to do that. When you move (by drag and drop or the move menu) the organizer automatically updates the catalog.
3. At this point I won’t have deleted anything off the C drive so how do I ensure the catalog establishes links with the photos that are now on the (H) drive if they’re still on the C drive?
The drag and drop procedure really moves, that is to say : copies the files to the new location AND deletes the files in the old location. Note that if there is a problem in the file transfer, the original files won't be deleted. The transfer of big libraries can require several hours. That happened to me with a power outage at 95% of the process. The files already copied stayed on the new computer, the original files were not deleted and the database of the catalog rolled back to the initial situation as if I had done nothing. So dragging and dropping is safe, at least on recent PSE versions.
4. Once I know the photos are safely on the (H) drive and all links to the catalog have been established I’ll take a new backup of the catalog onto the separate Seagate expansion drive (F)
5. Do I need to take a separate backup of the photos which are now on the (H) drive?
6. I’ll then delete the photos on the C drive.
7. In future any new photos I take and import into Element 11 organiser, I’ll save on the (H) drive.
Have I got the steps right? Any help would be appreciated as I don’t want to lose anything.
Thanks.
If you take a new backup, it will include all the files recorded in the catalog. If you still have pictures on your C: drive, and possibly others on other external drives, everything will be backed up. You can't specify a backup for images in a given disk, only for all images in a catalog. For instance, you can move only a part of your images on your C: drive. You can add pictures in the drive you want, C: or H:

Do I have to deactivate my lightroom 5 installation before moving it to a new hard drive as with Photoshop elements 10?

I cannot find any way to deactivate my Lightroom 5 install prior to moving it to another hard drive like I did on my Photoshop Elements 10 .

There is no activation/deactivation process with Lightroom. Just install it on the new hard drive. You might need your serial number.

840 photos imported onto new hard drive have no originals

I've been anxious to get my fresh start with iPhoto 6 on a new hard drive. I'm determined to have better photo organization from the start. I've been using this method (which I learned here on the discussion boards) on my laptop recently and it's worked flawlessly. This is how I imported them:
I had my preferences set to let me use Image Capture upon connection to my computer, then I sent all the photos to a folder on my desktop. From that folder I opened all the photos in Preview. There I went through each photo and deleted the bad ones from the folder before importing to iPhoto. I also sorted them into sub folders and gave them names I wanted to appear on their roll titles. At that point I drug each folder over to the library in the left hand column of iPhoto and let them import. After they imported, I hit delete on the folders on my desktop with the belief that they now resided in iPhoto.
I tried dragging a couple of photo onto my desktop so that I could resize them and post them on a forum and it said I couldn't access them because the original was in the trash. I looked at the information panel in iPhoto and it listed all the data, including file size. Here's where I made my terrible mistake. I thought that the computer did not like there being two copies of the originals, one being in the trash, so inspite of the "This action cannot be reversed" warning, I deleted the trash.
Now it appears all I have in my library is the alias of each photo. It will allow me to enlarge the photo momentarily before it tells me there is no original and goes to the dreaded gray blank with the dashed line.. WHY? I imported it. I don't understand.
Am I simply out of luck with this one? Is my only option to size the images of my lost photos to the largest I can before they turn to ghostly blanks and use grab to salvage the small image that's left? Oh how tedious, but I need some of those images! I know the pixels will be gone and the size is less than I want but some I could still use on the forum I want to post them on. I am so disheartened about this.
What's even more aggravating is that this is an empty hard drive and I could have easily drug them out of the trash and put them all in a folder with no strain on my memory. I'm just so used to being up against the wall with no memory left that I hit delete. I'm kicking myself pretty hard right now!

MacLoyal:
Did you have iPhoto's Advanced preferences set to NOT copy the files into the library when importing? It sounds like it, particularly the Originals folder contains nothing but alias files. If that's the case then you were required to keep those files you so carefully organized in folders. Those are the source files. If you haven't used your Mac a lot you may be able to recover most of them with SubrosaSoft FileSalvage. You can download and run it in demo mode to see who many of the image files it can see and recover before committing to purchase.
Also if you haven't reused the memory cards MediaRECOVER can recover them. It too has a demo mode to see what it can recover.
Bottomline: using the alias mode you must retain those files you imported into iPhoto and should have them in their permanent location before importing.
Do you Twango?

Moving from old to new hard drive, some songs lost track number in file nam

Anyone have thoughts on this? I changed to a larger hard drive a month ago. Copied everything over and things seemed OK. Synced daughter's ipod and things started acting weird. I compared old to new hard drive now and a bunch of songs are missing from the new drive but weirder is that some songs lost the track numebr in the name on the new drive - 04 loving.mp3 is now loving.mp3.
we can't find a pattern to why those specific songs are like that. any thoughts?

Sorry, never heard of that before.

Need assistance moving images to a new hard drive. can you help?

1. My images are stored on an Apple Airport drive, connected wirelessly.
2. I have moved them to a new USB connected External HD.
3 should I also copy the IRDATA and IRCAT Lightroom directory to the new drive before I synch the new directory within lightroom?

Lightroom catalog FAQ
how do I move a catalog?
You can move your catalog to a different location on your computer's hard drive, to an external disk, or to another computer altogether. Simply use the Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS) to drag or copy the following files to the new location:
Catalog: [catalog name].lrcat
Previews: [catalog name] Previews.lrdata
Smart Previews (Lightroom 5 only): [catalog name] Smart Previews.lrdata
Notice that you're not moving any photos, nor are you moving the Lightroom application itself. If Lightroom can't find the catalog or your photos after you move a catalog, see Lightroom can't find my catalog. How do I find it? Or, My catalog can't find my photos. How do I find them?
To transfer a catalog between a Windows computer and a Mac, copy your catalog, preview, and image files from the original computer onto a flash or other external drive. Then, attach that drive to the second computer and copy the files to the desired location on the second computer.
For a video on how to move a catalog between two computers, watch Julieanne Kost's How to migrate Lightroom to another computer on Adobe TV.

Is there a way through aperture to move all of my referenced photos onto a new hard drive while maintaining the current file structure and still keep them as referenced files.

I just want to migrate all of my work (all photos are referenced) from one drive to another and have my aperture library start working off of my new larger hard drive.

Depending on how your folder hierarchy is organized you might be able to do this with file->relocate masters and one of the options of folder organization that is provided but... if you have complicated hierarchy that Aperture will not reproduce then you can just copy all the entire folder hierarchy to the new drive using finder and then use file->locate masters to reconnect them to Aperture like this...
Aperture 3 – Locate Referenced Files « RB|Design
It's actually a bit easier if the old folder hierarchy/drive is disconnected when you do this for a few reasons.
RB

Moving photos from an external hard drive to iPhoto

I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and transferred all of my photos from a Passport external hard drive into iPhoto.
I thought it worked very well but when I pull up the photos in the new computer's iPhoto they are smaller and the resolution is worse than on my old Macbook. I have some of the same photos saved on Dropbox and when I downloaded them and opened them in iPhoto they were larger and the resolution better.
Any suggestions? Is the external hard drive at fault or did I make a mistake when transferring the files to my new Macbook - I just dragged and dropped them.
Thanks for the help!

No idea - how about some information
What version of iPhtoo? Of the OS? What exactly did you do and how did you do it?
Importing photos to iPhoto has no effect on the source photo so your post does not make sense
The most basic answer it to launch iPhoto and drag the photos form the External drive to the iPhoto window which imports them into iPhoto ahas no effect on the photos on the EHD
LN

Moving ITunes Music to New Hard Drive

Hi! I would like to free up space on my internal hard drive by purchasing an external one this weekend and moving the music files to this drive. I read this article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748 and I still have just one more question. I am not sure if others ended up having a library that looks like this, but in addition to the organized folders (by artist) in the ITunes folder, in C:\Documents and Settings\Dana Christine\My Documents\My Music there are about 100 MP3 files (not organized, just sitting there) which are a part of my library. How can I go about getting these files moved over as well? Will the process described in the link I attached take care of moving these files also? No tutorials on moving files that I have seen has covered such an issue. I really appreciate your help.

If these MP3 files are in the iTunes library (you can play them in iTunes), they will get copied when you Consolidate library.

Moving iTunes to a new hard drive

I followed Apple's instructions to move iTunes when I changed the hard drive on my first generation MacBook Pro (i.e., consolidate, change the media folder location), but when I opened a brand new version of iTunes on the new drive (holding down the option key) and pointed to the file on the external drive, it said that it couldn't find the library file. I assume that I had done everything right up to that point, because it took more than 5 hours to move my media onto the external drive. I have most of my media on my iPod, but I want to preserve my playlists, ratings, and (if possible) date added information, which I understand will not transfer to iTunes from my iPod. I have Googled and Googled the problem but have been completely stymied at every turn. I have been iTune-less for more than 2 weeks now--please help!

Lucy Jordan wrote:
(i.e., consolidate, change the media folder location), but when I opened a brand new version of iTunes on the new drive (holding down the option key) and pointed to the file on the external drive, it said that it couldn't find the library file.
consolidating your library to an external HD only moves the media files but keeps the library files local.
hold the option key and launch iTunes. click on +choose library+ and select the iTunes folder in <MacintoshHD>/users/<yourname>/music on our internal drive.
JGG

Moving photos from a windows hard drive to my mac.

Hi,
I am trying to get all the photos off an old Dell computer that is painfully slow. The photos are located in numerous folders under several different users. I have removed the hard drive and am able to get it to mount on my mac. When I try to do a search of .jpg files on the windows drive, it comes back with no items found. However when I copy various folders onto my mac drive I am able to quickly locate the photos. I thought I could copy the entire content of the windows drive onto an external hard drive, but I get an error message (error code -50) after a few minutes of copying. I figure that this might be because some of the files are locked.
Is there anyway to search the windows drive and locate only .jpg files (all the photos are fortunately .jpgs) and copy them to my mac?
Is there a way to unlock all the data on the windows drive and copy the entire content to an external drive?
Is there perhaps an easier way to do this from the PC? It only locates some of the photos when I do a search in Windows.
Thanks for any advice

I get an error message (error code -50) after a few minutes of copying.
I believe that is related to Permissions on the drive,
Is there anyway to search the windows drive and locate only .jpg files (all the photos are fortunately .jpgs) and copy them to my mac?
If they are all .jpg files then it should show up. However why don't you try to explore the folders in the Finder window and copy it.
Is there a way to unlock all the data on the windows drive and copy the entire content to an external drive?
You may refer the thread http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=366864

Problems Moving Time Machine to New Hard Drive, Error -8062

I'm in 10.8.5, trying to copy my Backups.backupsb folder from my current 2TB ext drive to a new 4TB drive, following Apples instructions for changing the Time Machine drive. Both are Seagates, single partitioned (GUIDE) formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
The 2TB is nearly full, hence the move. This morning after 12 hours of the projected 14 to copy the backups file over, I got an alert that action could not be completed because of Error 8062    I've found pages with suggested fixes from simple restart to more elaborate measures. The one thing I've done so far is restart and check Disk Permissions for both drives, which read as okay.
But before trying again, since error occured 12 hours into the process (of course it did,) I would like to see if the portion of the file that shows in the folder, size 1.46TB out of the 1.93 total, could be "replaced" by the original folder and thus not have to copy everything again.
One apparent problem is that, after a similar attempt to do similar replacement after a problem 3 hours into copying, instead of asking if I wanted to replace it, it just started copying it with "(original)" added to the end of the folder name. That file tagged (original) is the 1.46TB partial copy. So I deleted the much smaller initial partial copy, but of course the *true* original folder from the active Time Machine will not replace the existing partial copy. I don't know if removing (original) from its name so it matches will help because I can't; the folder is greyed out and I can't alter the name. I've tried changing Permissions on it, and tried Terminal commands that will supposedly change the name of a hidden file - nothing works.   Of course, I don't even know if it would ask to "replace" the next time I try, since it didn't do so when the folder names matched on the first attempt.   And since *when* does Finder not ask to "replace" an identically named folder, anyway? This begs the question if it is simply not going behave like a normal folder with files no matter what I do to it.
Is there anything else I can try? Barring a solution, any other precautions I might take to try to avoid the joy of anohter "cannot complete" 12 hours in?   I've got multiple backups to make of loads of data, including a full extra backup to keep offsite, and would love to avoid such time wasters.
Thanks for you kind assistance!
Brian

This looks right on point and very thorough. I've started a new backup directly to the new drive. Since I don't necessarily need the old drive for storage of anything else for the time being, I will probably do as he recommends and keep the old backups ther, at least until I'm reasonably sure I'm never going to need anything dating back that far, and long enough to confirm the new configuration is stable, and everything is there and backed up off site.
I"m all for simple solutions right now! :^)

Itunes exclamations moved mp3 files to new hard drive

hi
i recently bought a new computer (quad) and the new hardive is big enough to put all my mp3s onto one hardrive. so i put all 80gigs worth into one folder called "mp3s" and then i have sub folders to categorize them as latin etc...obviously itunes will display ! on every song now that they arent in their original location...so i went to advanced tab and made the "mp3s" folder the default music folder and assumed itunes would be smart enough to reestablish links to every song in my playlists...but no!!!...i tried one posts suggestions which worked the best (creating xml file etc)..but most all of the songs in my playlists still didnt show up...and every song in playlist is located in the "mp3s" folder so i assume it couldnt handle 80gigs worth of songs?
my complaint with itunes is i use to use some mp3 player on OS 9 that was smart enough to reestablish links to multiple playlists by simply selecting one song in the playlist and selecting the new location of the file, then it would automatically see any other mp3 contained in any subfolders and reestablish links to it....simple...why cant itunes on OS X do this.
any help appreciated
thanks

after reading many posts on apple, talking to apple tech support and googling nothing solved my problem completely...however i figured out a way to get it to work for me
MY SCENARIO:
before i had two different drives with 20gigs of mp3s on each drive and itunes on another drive...my files are organized by genre not artist so having itunes oraganize my mp3s is a no go and i have alot of playlists that i spent alot of time organizing so i didnt want to loose them.....when i got my G5 i finally had enough room to put all mp3s in one MP3 folder and thats what i wanted to do.
STEPS I TOOK:
1. I exported every playlist in the itunes on my old computer by going to file/export song list. then saved as .xml file. heres a link to apples directions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93763
2. I trashed all itunes prefs in user/home/library/preferences and all files in the user/home/music/itunes folder on my new computer...then i opened itunes and it goes thru standard steps and opens to an empty library.
3. I copied all my mp3s to my new computer and placed them into one folder called MP3's ( you can copy or move to any drive(s) or folder (s)you want)
4. then i went to itunes/file/add to library and selected the MP3s folder and itunes added every mp3 to the itunes library. (if you have mp3s on multiple drives simply continue to select the folders containing the mp3s and add them to the library)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301509
5. import the .xml song lists in step 1...as it imports some will import instantly, others you might see a progress bar as it searches...if some mp3 files in the playlist are missing it wont display them in the playlist.
6. all mp3s should now be in the library and all playlists connected to the songs no more exclamation points.
3. also afterwards or even in step 4 go to the advanced tab in the preferences and select the folder you want itunes to point to if you put all mp3s in one folder on one drive...make sure the "keep itunes folder organized" and "copy files to itunes music folder" are unchecked.
FINAL THOUGHTS
eventhough this wasnt that tough, this process could be made simplier by apple making itunes smart enough to locate broken linked files. i forget the name of an mp3 player i used on OS 9 but if i decided to move my mp3s to any other folder or hardrive, and reopen the mp3 app, it would show the files couldnt be found in the playlist, then when i clicked on one missing song the app was smart enough to scan that folder for any other mp3s in the apps playlists and automaticallly reconnect to them.
quad g5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Moving Music Files to new hard drive

I followed the instruction in iTunes Help, but it says to choose "Consolidate Library" from the Advanced tab in preferences. I have no such option on the screen. Can anyone help?

Consolidate Library is under Advanced on your Menu bar, up where File and Edit etc are, not in Preferences.

Photo files moved to new hard drive, need to re-connect photo tagging

Moved back catalog of photos from an almost full internal hard drive to a new larger external hard drive.
Elements Organizer is now unable to locate tagged photos on the new hard drive
Is it possible to re-connect the photo tagging ?

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