Organizing files

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Hi forum folk. I'm new to this forum, but I'm sure I'll be back quite often.

I'm running Lightroom 2.2 on my old, tired Mac G5 1.8 Dual tower.

I've just added another external hard drive and I'm reorganizing where I keep all of my files for my various projects - photography, audio, video production, etc.

Can someone please tell me the safest way to consolidate all of my Lightroom files on to one hard drive? I'd like all things photography to go on a single drive. Of course, I'll put the backup files on a different drive.

Thanks!
 
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dnbstudios said:
Can someone please tell me the safest way to consolidate all of my Lightroom files on to one hard drive? I'd like all things photography to go on a single drive. Of course, I'll put the backup files on a different drive.

Thanks!
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Welcome! You might want to have a look at the latter half of this thread:http://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/showthread.php?t=4956 . It may provide some answer to your question. In short, the folder structure is up to you, but keeping all images in the same top-level folder will make things easier in the future if you need to move your images inside or outside of LR.

--Ken
 
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...keeping all images in the same top-level folder will make things easier in the future if you need to move your images inside or outside of LR.
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Did you mean to say "all images in subfolders under the same top-level folder"? That's what I do ... subfolders by capture date. Nothing more complicated than that.

Having all your photos in one big huge top-level folder (as opposed to subfolders under a top-level folder) is frowned on by people who know a lot about Windows. I can't give the explanation why this is frowned on, but I believe that a problem does exist.
 
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Did you mean to say "all images in subfolders under the same top-level folder"? That's what I do ... subfolders by capture date. Nothing more complicated than that.

Having all your photos in one big huge top-level folder (as opposed to subfolders under a top-level folder) is frowned on by people who know a lot about Windows. I can't give the explanation why this is frowned on, but I believe that a problem does exist.
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Yes, that is what I meant to say. I am sorry if I confused anybody. I too use subfolders by capture date, but I wanted to emphasize the need to also include a top folder. Thank you for the clarification.

--Ken
 
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