[Leica] Moving Lightroom folders

[Adam Bridge]

There are two ways to do this:

1) let Lightroom do the move.

2) use a system utility to do the move and then point Lightroom at the right folder hierarchy.

I STRONGLY recommend (2). Using system utilities to move files is the most conservative way. Many can do a write/verify operation to make sure the files are identical. And it’s probably faster.

I keep files in a hierarchy so after the move, when Lightroom is complaining about not being able to find the original file, you can point to the top folder, say “here it is” and then everything beneath it will be found. This also allows you to test out the process by simply renaming the current top-level file folder to the original name with OLD appended. At that point Lightroom won’t find the top level file but nothing is actually gone from  your drive. You can then safely test out the process of pointing to the files on the new drive. Once that is demonstrated to work you can delete (gulp) the original files.

Of course have a full backup before you do this because who knows what might happen. Your files could be eaten by a Grue.

Adam

> On Aug 3, 2014, at 10:46 AM, 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
> 
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