LR somehow knew that I changed the location of my media?

[southwestform]

I was previously using an external drive for all of my photos and videos that I would connect and disconnect when done. I just recently copied it all to another larger drive and placed that drive in an enclosure that is always connected to my iMac. I was not planning to re-point my catalog yet to the new drive, though it seems LR automatically found it somehow. I named the new drive with the same name as the one I used previously. Is this how LR found it?

How do I manually change the location of my media back to the other drive if I want to? I just want to check for the number of missing photos on the old drive and compare it with the new one to ensure that everything is the same.

Thanks!

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

I named the new drive with the same name as the one I used previously. Is this how LR found it?

Yes, Lightroom doesn't know that it's a new drive because the name is the same.

How do I manually change the location of my media back to the other drive if I want to? I just want to check for the number of missing photos on the old drive and compare it with the new one to ensure that everything is the same.

I believe all you'd have to do is un-plug the new drive and plug the old drive in.