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How can one move folders / images wihtout losing the develop settings and without needing to import the moved images again?

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How can one move folders / images wihtout losing the develop settings and without needing to import the moved images again?
 
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As long as you did not rename the images or move them around into different folders, then relinking folders is indeed the method to use.
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Alright, thank you.

The Previews Cache must be located with the Catalog (of the same name).
So you can move BOTH the Catalog and its Previews to another drive, but not the Previews alone.
If there is not a Previews folder next to the Catalog (moved or deleted) Lightroom will re-build it.
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So it wouldn't matter if the previews were missing. Besides of rebuilding that might slow down Lightroom a little while rebuilding, I could imagine.
 
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Biff said:
So it wouldn't matter if the previews were missing. Besides of rebuilding that might slow down Lightroom a little while rebuilding, I could imagine.
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It takes 1 - 2 seconds to rebuild a preview, so in the beginning you have to wait half a minute before a grid of 30 images shows. Try scrolling through a few hundred images to find one particular image... Over time this becomes less and less of a problem because many previews have already been rebuilt.
 
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Biff said:
Many thanks!

So finally transferring, renaming folders / files in Lightroom works the same as doing it in the Explorer, if I see it right, very easy.

After dragging and dropping a folder over another folder this appears:
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What does this "nor any change you’ve made prior to this can be undone." mean? What change made prior? Changes / edits to the images?
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{Cntl}{Z} the undo operation can allow you to reverse one or more LR processing steps. Moving file is one operation that can not be UnDone therefore any processing steps in the UnDo queue that took place prior to the Move operation are gone.
 
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It takes 1 - 2 seconds to rebuild a preview, so in the beginning you have to wait half a minute before a grid of 30 images shows. Try scrolling through a few hundred images to find one particular image... Over time this becomes less and less of a problem because many previews have already been rebuilt.
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OK, thank you!

the undo operation can allow you to reverse one or more LR processing steps. Moving file is one operation that can not be UnDone therefore any processing steps in the UnDo queue that took place prior to the Move operation are gone.
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Alright, I understand, thank you!
 
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