LR file moving help needed

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Alas I have run out of disk space on my D: drive and need to move my lightroom pictures to another drive. Every time I have tried this in the past I have run into a mess in that LR tells me it can't find the photos and I had to click on each and every photo to show it the new locations. I have way too many photos to do that anymore, thus I need some help to get this right the first time. I would like to move everything from my D: drive to my R: drive. How do I do this so as to not mess things up. Do I do this by moving the files with windows explorer or do I do it in lightroom. What has to be done so LR immediately sees everything in the new location with no problems????
 
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kirb, conventional wisdom is to move files within Lr. This works well for small moves, or when you're 'organizing', moving photos all around in various directions.

In this instance, moving a whole disk full of photos, it's likely easier to move the photos with Explorer, and then relink within Lr. The key to the whole issue is whether you have an identifiable 'top-level' folder to contain your images. Say, something like D:\images\.... which exists both in Lr and on your drive. In that case, you should just have to relink the single top level folder, and all the child folders should automatically relink as well.

Victoria's blog has a couple of topics concerning moving the files, and the top level folder hierarchy. Have a look here LRQ Blog. Note the blog has several pages, you'll have to use 'previous/next entries' to navigate to the pertinent pages.
 
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