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14. Moving Folders within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
5 months ago
I tutor a lot of photographers who have caused themselves trouble in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I see a lot of smart people who have caused themselvess a needless hassle by moving photos around their computer without thinking about the effects of their actions on their Lightroom database.

In this video tutorial, I am going to show you how to move your photos from one hard drive to another without upsetting Lightroom. In fact, I’m going to make Lightroom do all of the “heavy lifting.” As a bonus, I’m also going to show you a little trick on how to create new folders from within Lightroom, and how to rename your folders.

For more tips and tricks please visit thelightroomlab.com

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  • chiafrica 3 months ago
    this is great, thanks david. when you move files as you described in your tutorial, it move it from one place to the other and DOES NOT leave a copy in the old location? in other words, the files you moved were actually 'moved', not just copied to a new location. thanks.
  • David Marx plus 3 months ago
    You are most welcome and thanks again for your patience!
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  • Khürt Williams 13 days ago
    Thanks for making this. This is exactly what I was looking for today. I just started using Lightroom. My existing photo library is on an external drive and I am switching from iPhoto.
  • David Marx plus 13 days ago
    Dear Khurt Williams,

    Glad it helped. I wrote a short article to accompany this video tutorial too. You can read it at thelightroomlab.com/2009/09/moving-folders-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom/
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  • Khürt Williams 11 days ago
    The article is what led me here. :)
    I have my images/video on a 500GB external drive and my music on another 500GB external drive.
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