How to Move Lightroom Catalog to Another Drive

To move a lightroom catalog to another drive, create a new root-level folder on the new hard drive.

Close down Lightroom, then copy all the folders from the old drive into the new root-level folder on the new hard drive.
copy all the folders from the old drive into the new root-level folder

Start Lightroom

Then in turn right-click on each of the folders on the old and select “Update Folder Location”…

right-click on each of the folders on the old drive and select “Update Folder Location”

This will pop up a file browser, use this to browse to and select the corresponding folder on the new hard drive and click OK.

This will relink the catalog to the new hard drive.

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