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Moving my Lightroom catalog to a new 2nd internal HDD

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theMusicMan

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Hi All

Now... I appreciate that as a keen and long term Lightroom user I should really know how to do this, but nonetheless I wanted to get expert opinion and advice just in case I get something wrong.

I simply want to move my current 20GB Lightroom 4 catalog, which resides on my MacbookPro internal 350GB HDD, to the second internal 750GB HDD I have installed in place of the DVD Optical drive.

I have all my images backed up, and have backed up the LR catalog too... so how do I go about moving the entire catalog please?

Many thanks
 
Just move the .lrcat file and the previews database alongside. (Always safer to copy, test, then delete the original.)

Double-click the new copy to open it. If you have Lightroom configured to always open the most recent catalog, that'll do it.
 
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