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[paul lange]

How do I redirect my collection images to a new source drive?
I've consolidated my folders onto one drive and I only want to work off of this drive now. I need to find out how to tell Lightroom to redirect all of the collections that were reading off of multiple drives, to now point to a single new drive for the same source folders.

 

[Kiwigeoff]

Paul, welcome aboard. To help us help you could you please take a moment to fill in your signature in the "userCP' that is found in the nav-bar at the top left of the page - thanks.
The short answer is that it is generally best to move files/folders within LR so as the links to the files aren't broken.
You should look in the tips and tricks for information on achieving what you want.

 

[Mark Sirota]

Welcome to Lightroom Forums!

Right-click on the top-level folder and choose "Find Missing Folder..."

 

[Brad Snyder]

Paul, Welcome.

As Geoff says, it's far better to move the files/folders within Lr, as Lr has no way of tracking the moves if you do it any other way.

I've skimmed the Tips to point you in the right direction, but I didn't see anything directly on topic.(Doesn't mean it's not there, but I didn't see it on a quick pass)

The more you have preserved your original folder structure as imported to Lr, the better.
You're going to have to right click on each folder showing a Question Mark icon in the Lr Folder Browser in the Left Hand Panel, and select Find Missing Folder.... This will open a file browser dialog, and you then navigate to the new location of the folder.

Obviously, you want to relink at as high a level folder as you can, as subfolders which have maintained the same relation will also be linked.

But, from your description, it sounds like you moved a lot of stuff around, it will be tedious.

Edit, Oops, simulposting with Mark.