Don't use LR to move it across the network, it's painfully slow. You might find it simpler to copy the whole structure to the new disk, then use give the new disk the name that the old one had, so LR doesn't notice the difference.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Larry Colen > Sent: 14 July 2011 10:35 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: lightroom question: moving/copy > > A related question: > When moving a big directory tree, am I better moving the whole tree in > lightroom? Or am I better off moving it with the file system, then just > telling lightroom where the root of that tree is? > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Last weekend, when photographing at a dojo event, I ran out of space > on the harddrive that I've been using for my raw files. So, I put the > raw files from the weekend onto an external drive. > > > > When I was at Costco today, they had a good price on a 3TB USB3 > external drive, so I picked it up to be for just my raw files. I've > been using lightroom to copy directory trees over from the old (Mixed > use) drive to the new (just photo) drive. I've been running into some > problems when part of a directory tree is already there and I can't > just copy the top of the remaining tree over because the top level > directory already exists. But, I'm solving those hiccups. > > > > I've got a bunch of files on the external drive, but rather than > moving them to the new drive, I want to copy them, and just tell > lightroom to use the copy, that way I've got all of the files in a > convenient place for me to share with other people. How do I go about > this? > > > > I think I've seen something about it, but don't remember where, or > how to find it. > > > > -- > > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
