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welcome everybody I'm Laura Shoe in this short video i'm going to show you how to move photographs from
one hard drive to another the classic scenario that i get a question on
probably once a week is when you're storing photographs on your internal
hard drive
but you've run out of space so you wanna move photos from the internal drive
to an external hard rock there different ways to accomplish this task i'm gonna
show you the way that i'd prefer
which is entirely in labor
now the first step
is to get your external hard drive to show up in the folders panel here
like normally shows you hard drives that you've actually imported photographs
from
now if you are already have photographs on that external hard drive
that you want to have been light brown
and the easiest way toget your hard drive to show up here in the folders
panel
is to import those photos first then once you can see the external harddrive
you'll be able to meet these folders down
so in that case you would simply click on the import button
and in the source panel here on the left side
you would select the folder of photos that you want a import on your external
hard drive
in the top center here if you would choose ad
that happened to the library catalogue
without copying them or moving them from that external hard drive
the select the folder photos over here on the external hard drive
added to the catalogue
and then go ahead please import
but in my case i don't have any photos on my external hard drive my external
hard drive is blank
so i just want to show up here in light brown so they can move these folders
down
so here's the trick
for getting it to show up
what i wanted to is click on the plus over to the right of the folders panel
here
and choose
and folder
and then out in this windows explorer window or mac finder window
i'm gonna sell act
my external hard drive
next
i'm gonna click on new folder it's gonna be in a different place in the finder
window but i'll click on new folder and i'll call this pictures
next on the go ahead and safe select folders so i have this pictures folder
select it
now i can see that passport external harddrive here in labor
if i click on the sideways triangle on the right here to expand that all sia
pictures folder over here
at this point only need to do
if i wanna move all of the photographs because they lived for me in this master
photos go here folder
i can simply click and drag
this entire folder down
and drop it right on top of pictures or if instead you prefer to just put a
subset of your photographs on the on the external hard drive
you can brag whatever subset of folders you want down
let me go ahead and collapse the years here
and let's say that i just wanna play it
two thousand five three two thousand ten on the external harddrive in my trunk
three and before
i would have to click on each one of these folders and drag them down and
dropped them on pictures in light run for
i can select the first shaft
click on the last two select all four folders
and then i can just click and drag from inside one of them and all four will
come down so when pictures becomes highlighted here
then i can let go
now you may get a warning dialog mines turned off
but it will warn you that that you're moving photos on desk that you can't
undo that step that sounds more scary then it really is what it means is that
once you move
folders as we're doing you can't go up to added undo
to undo a move however you can always dragged the folders back so don't be
afraid to say new or okay
if you get that warning dialog
now in this sample
catalog and we have five hundred thirty one photograph
so it's not taking truong to actually movies over and i'm not positive video
as it completes
but if you have tens of thousands of photographs expect this process to take
hours you're moving dozens or hundreds of gigabytes of information
now that the movie is done i realize that i'd didn't quite mimic my folder
structure on the external harddrive correctly here
i could have deleted the video that i just recorded for you and done it again
perfectly
but i thought i would be useful for you to see that you can always it bad
subfolders here in my gram as well
so really within pictures
i want photos co here
so i'm gonna right click on pictures here and i'm going to choose create
folder inside pictures
and i call this photos go here
and i'll say create i don't want include selected photos that would just meanness
highlighted photo gets moved into that folder
annoy him say create
now i've got a first come here folder and guess what now i'm going to click
select these folders
and i'm gonna drop them down
into photos go here
so im mimicking the same folder structure it but i have on my internal
hard drive
wait a minute years of photos i'd just like to have everything consistent
now if in fact you've moved all of your photos down here to the external hard
drive
so that for example you have a pictures folder up here
that has a rope photos in it
and you can simply right click on that folder and she's remove so that i won't
show in leitrim anymore
now finally let me point out that i've just shown you how to move here
photographs from one hard drive to another your lightroom catalog
by default is still in your pictures folder
on your internal hard drive think of the public library analogy where we have
stacks of books
and we have the card catalog we've just moved the stacks of books it takes a
different process
to move the card catalog over
if that's something you'd like to do
i have a separate blog-post on this process
that I'lll provide a link for in the blog post where a post this video
i hope this has been useful thanks for watching