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I want to move my catalog to an SSD drive on my PC. I currently have it on a spinning hard drive. Am I correct in my assumption that I only really need to move the LR6 Catalog - Main.lrcat file? If I only move that file, my understanding is that the previews will regenerate as I navigate to folders, is that correct?
I have LR6.
Thanks.
Yes that is correct. LR will generate previews on the fly. I did exactly that when I moved my catalog as the previews file/folder was quite large. I copied just the .lrcat file and double-clicked (control-click) to launch it. When selecting folders with a large number of images I found that I had to scroll with the sidebar but LR quickly filled the blank thumbnails.
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Yes that is correct. LR will generate previews on the fly. I did exactly that when I moved my catalog as the previews file/folder was quite large. I copied just the .lrcat file and double-clicked (control-click) to launch it. When selecting folders with a large number of images I found that I had to scroll with the sidebar but LR quickly filled the blank thumbnails.
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Yes your are right. You need only move the catalog file to the new hard drive. But...., you spare a lot of time if you move the preview folder too.
Take a look here and refer section 4.
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-lightroom-to-new-computer/
Axel