New Laptop and External HD - Best Way to Set Up
I've purchased a new laptop and larger external hard drive. Wondering the best way to move my photos.
I believe I understand that exporting my current LR cataloge and then copying that onto my new lappie and importing to the new installation of 1.4.1 is the best way to move the LRCat. However, I'm a bit fuzzier about moving the actual image files (RAW and edits) from one HD to the other and having LRCat recognize them. We're talking about over 100GB of images, so not a small amount. I'm a wildlife/underwater photog, and have the folders organized by general location folder first, then individual shoots in that location in separate folders under that.
Should I:
a) Keep the images on the current, smaller HD until I've imported the LRCat and then move the images to the new, larger HD from within LR?, or;
b) Move the image files from one external HD to another, import the LRCat and then have LR locate the files?, or;
c) Some other method which will best optimize the files?
Thank you!
I do like the folder structure as-is. It makes sense to me, as my shoots are all based on discreet events (I usually have to travel to them), so sorting by location makes it easy for me to place what's where and when. However, since I have this opportunity, I'm open to a change if it would help LR work better.
But I'm not sure what you mean by "Just see to it that you can see the top folder (or the few top folders) in your present LR. After moving the catalog to your laptop just point LR to the top folder in its new location and LR will find the rest." Are you saying I should move the files, then locate them with my current LR, then do the cataloge export/import to the new laptop? Any reason I shouldn't just move them, do the export/import on the new laptop? Not understanding the reason for the middle step of having them recognized on the old computer first.
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Correct.
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
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