[Leica] Moving Lightroom folders

[John McMaster]

What sort of drop in speed when working is there over a local copy? Usually recommended to have it on your fastest disks rather than in 'the cloud'.....

john

-----Original Message-----

Absolutely. I wrote "move," but in fact I'll copy them into place and verify that everything works before deleting the original files ... and there's no rush to do that, either. Google Drive is very affordable and it works, but the interface leaves a lot to be desired.


-Lew Schwartz


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Leowesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lew,
>
> Be sure to test it first.
>
> Leo Wesson
> leowesson.com
>
> > On Aug 3, 2014, at 12:56, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's what I was hoping for!
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > -Lew Schwartz
> >
> >
> >> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Nathan Wajsman 
> >> <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Lightroom will report that it cannot find the files. You will then 
> >> have
> to
> >> select one of the images and point it to its new location. If you 
> >> choose “find other missing images” or something like that, it will
> automatically
> >> locate the other missing ones from the same folder.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> Nathan Wajsman
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 03 Aug 2014, at 19:46, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I need to move my Lightroom folders to a subdirectory of my Google
> Drive
> >>> for online backup. Will the catalog still work after the move? All 
> >>> the files will be in new locations on the drive (but their 
> >>> locations
> relative
> >>> to each other will be the same).
> >>>
> >>> TIA.
> >>>
> >>> -Lew Schwartz
> >>>