LR 5.7 to LR CC and OSX to Win10: Thoughts on How to Manage?

[mvtdphoto]

Hopefully the title summarizes my plan well enough.

Currently, I still have LR 5.7 on an old iMac which is about to be retired. I'm intending to make 2 moves:

     1. LR 5.7 to CC

     2. OSX to Win10

The photos and catalogue are currently on an external HD b/c I used it between a laptop and iMac.

One issue I can foresee is the external HD is formatted to Mac OS Extended (journaled); so can't just PnP to Win 10.

I'm looking for recommendations on how to proceed. Which should be done first? Transition LR to CC and then change OS's or other way around?

Thanks for your thoughts.

[dj_paige]

I'm looking for recommendations on how to proceed. Which should be done first? Transition LR to CC and then change OS's or other way around?

Doesn't really matter.

[mvtdphoto]

OK, fair enough.

Regarding the OS change and external drive incompatibility with Win10, should I format a new drive for Win10 and just copy the MacOS Extended drive contents to new Win-compatible drive? Other way of doing it?

[mvtdphoto]

So far, I've copied the photos from the Mac OS compatible drive to another drive formatted for Win10 access with the same file structure.

Can I move the old .lrcat file to new computer and rename the windows drive the same as the original Mac OS drive to complete the migration? Any problems to see with that?

Thanks.

[dj_paige]

Copy the catalog file to the new computer. As far as I know, you cannot rename a Windows drive to be the same as the Mac Drive, Windows uses letters rather than names.

[cmgap · Accepted solution]

The process for updating the location to your new Windows formatted drive is not difficult. In Lr under Folders, you'll see a question mark, click on it and update the folder/drive location to the new drive. If you've retained the same folder structure on the new Windows drive you shouldn't have a problem.

[mvtdphoto]

This has worked just great... Thank you. I thought it may be this simple but I guess just wanted some reassurance. There are a lot of images in the catalogue so I was worried I might mess it up!

(I was away for a bit so just got to try your suggestion now.)