Stanley Halpin wrote: > I've gone through this many times. > > 1. Make a back-up of your images before you do anything. > 2. If you use Lightroom to move the photos to the new location, then > there is no need to reassociate your LR database/catalog with the > images because LR knows where it put them. > 3. I presume you are just moving the images to your new drive, not the > LR application or catalog? Those two should stay on your main drive for > the sake of processing speed. > > 4. If you want to get really wild and crazy… > a. you can split the location of your images. I don’t think LR > cares. > b. On my internal hard drive, I currently have my 2016 and 2015 > folders. The 2014 and earlier have been moved to a secondary drive. > c. My logic is that I am much less likely to be accessing the > older files, and so the extra search/retrieval of secondary storage > doesn’t become an issue all that often. And so far I have been able to > accommodate the two most-recent years’ images within my primary drive. > As files get bigger I may need to start doing six-month rather than > one-year chunks.
Thanks Stan. I'm doing very regular backups to hard drive(s). The main computer is on the way out; it's long past the time that I generally replace a computer, it won't run all the software I have and a number of things, such as the DVD drive no longer work. I'm therefore moving as much off it as I can until I get a replacement - with a much larger hard drive, in case of sudden failure. Malcolm -- 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.
