Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Peter,
Making a copy of the images/catalogue won't hurt, but may not be necessary.
Are you doing an image copy of the original hard drive?
If it's a Windows machine and the drive letter is going to be the same
for the new hard disk, then Lightroom should see the files with no
intervention.
When I upgraded the 'C' drive (the one with the OS and gubbins on it) on
my old Windows XP machine, I did an image copy of the old drive to the
new drive, using an external disk caddy. Then, when I physically
replaced the old 'C' drive with the new drive and it all came up with no
problems.
I've also done a similar thing with a Macbook. I had to upgrade my
wife's hard drive. In this case, I did a time machine backup of the old
disk, installed the new HDD in the Macbook, loaded the OS from the
original media then restored everything from Timemachine.
It was time consuming, but again, no issues with Lightroom.
Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK
Homepage http://www.monomagic.co.uk
Blog http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
Picture a week (2010) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
Picture a week (2009) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
(2008)
http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
On 26/01/2012 14:15, Peter Cheyne wrote:
> I'm copying the contents (wholesale) of an older hard drive into a 1 TB
> HD. My question is, what do I need to do to let Lightroom find all my
> photo files?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Peter
>
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