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1. Re: Moving Lr and the library to a new hard drive - help?
J McWilliams Apr 8, 2007 7:14 AM (in response to KateMann)A full back up of everything seems in order! On a Mac, you'd do a clone in such a situation. <br /> <br />But maybe you don't have enough space for everything on your USB drive. Anyway, for LR, copy over the main folder [directory] that contains .lrdb, .lrdata, and the image folders. If they're not in that main folder already, it might be wise to move them there before copying them out. <br /> <br />Good luck! <br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">John "McPhotoman"</span> <font br="" /></font> color="#800000" size="2">~~ John McWilliams <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MacBookPro 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo, G-5 Dual 1.8; Canon DSLRs -
2. Re: Moving Lr and the library to a new hard drive - help?
KateMann Apr 8, 2007 7:20 AM (in response to KateMann)Thanks John, the usb drive is 160G, contains all my data and has 40g to spare. I don't copy my photos to Lr so the Lightroom database shouldn't be all that huge?
I'm wondering where the preferences might be ... -
3. Re: Moving Lr and the library to a new hard drive - help?
J McWilliams Apr 8, 2007 8:33 AM (in response to KateMann)There's the library file, which contain all the edits, ratings, etc, and the "data" file which contains the previews.
b As far as I know,
only the library file is essential; the preview file, which tends to get large, will be recreated as needed, or force-created by selecting all images and making it render previews. As I say, this is AFAIK, and it'd be nice if others can confirm this.
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4. Re: Moving Lr and the library to a new hard drive - help?
KateMann Apr 8, 2007 10:50 AM (in response to KateMann)I keep my images in the same directories that I have always kept them - on the main hard drive, with a complete backup on the usb drive. So, one is external. Up to the end of 2005 I have DVDs of the original RAW. I haven't a lot of output compared to many, and I do edit my shoots considerably. I can't see minding tons of giggage, when in fact, I will probably only choose a few dozen prints a year for portfolio work.
I import into Lr but I do not copy the file into the Lr directory.


