Need to move a lot of photos! Help
I have about 550 gigs of RAW files (with sidecars) that are stored on a Windows Home Server. It is starting to get some age on it so I need to move them. I need to use LR5 to move them from the WHS to a different computer on the same LAN. What is the easiest way to do this? The whole catalog thing is a bit confusing to me so all my photos are saved by specific address of the job.
Like this. What would be the best way to do this?
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Move photos in your operating system, keeping structure/hierarchy the same (don't be re-arranging things at this time)
Then, follow these instructions: http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm
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