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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom Catalog on External Drive
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:36:32 -0800
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I'm doing my year end backups and cleanups this weekend. One of the steps
is to move my 2010 image files from an internal disk to an external disk. I
already run my 2009 and prior from my external disk.
The trick is to :
1. Open LR and select/all the files you want to move
2. Export as catalogue to the external disk checking both boxes (move
negative files and whatever the other box says)
3. Then I run SyncPro (free for a mac) to compare the files in the
directory(ies) I'm copying from have all moved to the new directory(ies).
4. Delete the selected photos from your lightroom catalogue - delete from
disk
5. Import the new catalogue from the new location.
You should have no issues.
Best,
Bob

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:34 AM, J. Newell <john.o.newell at comcast.net> 
wrote:

> I am looking into moving my Lightroom catalog to an external drive that I
> can edit from multiple computers (both Win7 PCs). I'd be interested in any
> real-world feedback from anyone else who's doing this. The drive is USB
> 3.0, and both PCs have USB 3.0 ports, which in my informal testing is a big
> step forward from USB 2.0, which is the reason I'm once again thinking
> about this.
>
>
> Thanks for any experiences.
>
>
> John Newell
>
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-- 
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com


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