I am new here, and am frustraing myself reading threads and watchng videos on how to best deal with moving my catalogue to a new drive, then upgrading it to lightroom 3..
the catalogue is 92 gigs, with 115,000 images. i have discarded all 1:1 previews and optimized the catalogue and it is backed up.
my understanding is that exporting the catalogue is the only way it will preserve the collections and presets.
when i try to export the catalogue it quotes the number of images, and virtual copies, but tells me the drive i chose is not available.. i am looking at the folder i made for it to be exported to, on that drive, so i dont understand why it wont let it proceed,
I have unclicked the negatives and the previews so when lightroom 3 imports the catalogue it will generate its own previews.
method 2: I assume that asking LR3 to make an new catalogue at the beginning , then asking it to import, it will be attempting to import and upgrade all the thumbnails at the same time.. is this method preferable??
is there another way of doing this?
I am running vista 64 bit and t rying to move the catalogue out of drive c to an internal raid, then upgrade to LR3.
a solution will be much appreciated.
thanks
the catalogue is 92 gigs, with 115,000 images. i have discarded all 1:1 previews and optimized the catalogue and it is backed up.
my understanding is that exporting the catalogue is the only way it will preserve the collections and presets.
when i try to export the catalogue it quotes the number of images, and virtual copies, but tells me the drive i chose is not available.. i am looking at the folder i made for it to be exported to, on that drive, so i dont understand why it wont let it proceed,
I have unclicked the negatives and the previews so when lightroom 3 imports the catalogue it will generate its own previews.
method 2: I assume that asking LR3 to make an new catalogue at the beginning , then asking it to import, it will be attempting to import and upgrade all the thumbnails at the same time.. is this method preferable??
is there another way of doing this?
I am running vista 64 bit and t rying to move the catalogue out of drive c to an internal raid, then upgrade to LR3.
a solution will be much appreciated.
thanks
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