Moving Lightroom from PC to Mac

[Bruce E Schoppe]

I'm preparing to move Lightroom to a new Mac from a PC. I found your post on creating a hierarchy using the Show Parent Folder option. When I right click on the top folder which is My Pictures which is inside My documents, no such option is available.
What am I missing?
I want to make sure I do this right. My photos, indeed all my documents, are on an external hard drive which I imagine is NTFS.
Thanks

 

[Johan Elzenga]

I found your post on creating a hierarchy using the Show Parent Folder option.

Whose post?

 

[Bruce E Schoppe]

The Lightroom Queen!

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Might still be a good idea to include a link, so we understand what you're trying to do...

 

[Bruce E Schoppe]

Sorry
I have a long list of folders—can I change it to show the folder hierarchy? - The Lightroom Queen

 

[Johan Elzenga]

OK, so what doesn't work in your situation? You say you clicked on the top folder, so doesn't that mean you already have that hierarchy? A 'top folder' suggests a hierarchy...

 

[Bruce E Schoppe]

"top folder" is not terminology I am familiar with. What I said was that when I right click the top folder which is "My Pictures", there is not an option to "show parent folder". So that may well mean that I already have a hierarchical format or, because the screen shot is of a Mac, that is is not available on my PC. If I already have an hierarchical format, then I can move on. That's all I'm asking.
Thanks

 

[Johan Elzenga]

What you're talking about is just a view in Lightroom. Using 'Show Parent Folder' doesn't change anything in your folder structure. It just changes what Lightroom shows and what it doesn't show. So yes, you can move on.

Please note: you mentioned having an external disk with the images, possibly in NTFS format. A Macintosh can read that format, but it can't write to it.