Wrote a complete article on exactly this subject some time ago: http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ click on "08 - Lightroom, moving a large number of files"
G On Thursday, July 14, 2011, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Last weekend, when photographing at a dojo event, I ran out of space on the > harddrive that I've been using for my raw files. So, I put the raw files > from the weekend onto an external drive. > > When I was at Costco today, they had a good price on a 3TB USB3 external > drive, so I picked it up to be for just my raw files. I've been using > lightroom to copy directory trees over from the old (Mixed use) drive to the > new (just photo) drive. I've been running into some problems when part of a > directory tree is already there and I can't just copy the top of the > remaining tree over because the top level directory already exists. But, I'm > solving those hiccups. > > I've got a bunch of files on the external drive, but rather than moving them > to the new drive, I want to copy them, and just tell lightroom to use the > copy, that way I've got all of the files in a convenient place for me to > share with other people. How do I go about this? > > I think I've seen something about it, but don't remember where, or how to > find it. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
