RE: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

John wrote: > You should be able to have Lightroom move them to the new drive, so it > would already know where the photos are located. I know you can do that > with Adobe Bridge, so Lightroom should have the same capability. Going to do this mid-week. Fingers crossed. Malcolm -- PDML

Re: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

If you use Lightroom to move them, it should update the catalog as it goes along. On 4/15/2016 9:59 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: Matthew Hunt wrote: Drag and drop them within Lightroom. That way you won't have to "fix" anything in Lightroom. For once, I am planning to do as much as possible

Re: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

You should be able to have Lightroom move them to the new drive, so it would already know where the photos are located. I know you can do that with Adobe Bridge, so Lightroom should have the same capability. On 4/15/2016 9:38 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: My taking photos every day project has

RE: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

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

RE: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

Matthew Hunt wrote: > If you do the move within Lightroom, the catalog is updated as part of > the move. That's the advantage of doing the move in Lightroom--it knows > that you're moving the photos and keeps everything straight. Thanks, that's excellent news. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

If you do the move within Lightroom, the catalog is updated as part of the move. That's the advantage of doing the move in Lightroom--it knows that you're moving the photos and keeps everything straight. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: > Matthew

RE: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

Matthew Hunt wrote: > Drag and drop them within Lightroom. That way you won't have to "fix" > anything in Lightroom. For once, I am planning to do as much as possible within Lightroom. Moving the photos within Lightroom I don't think will be the issue, it's checking the catalogue still knows

Re: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

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

Re: Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

Drag and drop them within Lightroom. That way you won't have to "fix" anything in Lightroom. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: > My taking photos every day project has started to fill up hard drive space > so quickly, to the extent that I need to move

Lightroom - change of storage drive question.

My taking photos every day project has started to fill up hard drive space so quickly, to the extent that I need to move it somewhere bigger. This doesn't even cover the scanning of photos & slides. I have backup drives which are large, but I've just got a 5Tb drive to move Lightroom onto. Now,