On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Thibouille wrote: > I want to move my files from my external HDD to my laptop HDD. > That would allow my HDD to act as a backup only and allow me to always > have full Lightroom capabilities with my laptop only. > > Can I just move the files and Lightroom will update itself nicely or > is there anything else I should be aware of ?
- As a safety measure, be sure you select all image files in the catalog and use the command to Save Metadata to Files so that all the information specific to the files in the catalog database is stored with or in the files themselves. - Then COPY the files and the catalog to the laptop. If your catalog is already on the laptop, you're fine. - Dismount and disconnect the external hard drive. (now you have a backup in case anything goes wrong...) - Start Lightroom, open the catalog. It will mark files it cannot find. Click on the little marker it puts on those files and it will ask you to find them. Once you locate a file in its new location, it will update the directory paths in the catalog for all similarly located files. That's about it. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
