Thanks Godfrey I will do it ASAP and report back my experience, just in case. It might interest others.
2007/10/13, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- 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.
