Eric Weir wrote:
The solid state drive on My MacBook Air is nearly full. A huge amount of the
data on it is in my photos database. I understand it is possible to keep the
photos database “off-site” on an external hard drive, with the disadvantage
that photos can then be edited only when the drive is connected to the computer.
I also understand there are two ways to move the photos database to an external
drive so that Lightroom is aware of their existence: (1) access the external
drive from within Lightroom and then copy of the files within Lightroom, (2)
move the files to the external drive outside Lightroom then having Lightroom
“find the missing files.”
Have I got the options right? If so my inclination is to use the second method.
I don’t relish the though of dragging the folders for my entire database around
in Lightroom. Any opinions or precautions about this?
Keep the catalog on your primary drive, move your raw files to an
external drive.
I have found USB3 to be so close to speed as SATA that I don't notice
any speed differences keeping raw files external.
Copy your raw files to the external drive. While you're at it, copy
them to two external drives.
Rename the top folder of just the photo files, not the catalog, on your mac.
Open lightroom. Click on the image of the folder with the question
mark, select find missing directory, point it to your new files.
Now you can piff the huge folder of raw files on your laptop.
You could, by way of workflow, copy files from your camera, onto your
local drive. When you're done with that batch of shooting, or every so
often, just move your older files to the external drive.
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