How to handle change of HDD from catalog perspecitve?

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Jessy
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How to handle change of HDD from catalog perspecitve?

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Hello,
I have all my photos (2To) on a HDD1 which is now full.
I have bought another HDD2 which has twice the storage space of the first one.
I have copied all the pictures from HDD1 to HDD2.
How to manage this change from a catalog point of view?
I would like to keep all my portofolios, folder classification, picture stars, labelling, etc.

How to proceed?
Feel free to give several options.

Thinking about it I see:
- either to move picture from HDD1 to HDD2 via PSU but given the number of files, I expect a freeze/bug to happen eventually.
- or to recreate a catalog for HDD2 but I'm almost sure portofolios and other things (not depending of metadata) will be lost such has folder colors.

Thanks for any answer.
Hert
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Re: How to handle change of HDD from catalog perspecitve?

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In Folders, right click on the root folder and select “Map to the correct physical folder”. Then point to the root of the new drive.
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Jessy
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Re: How to handle change of HDD from catalog perspecitve?

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Deep diving more into the forum, I found the topic Drive letter changes. Hert recommends to Map the the top level node to the new drive/location.
It happens it also work for my case, everything has been kept (portofolios, folder color, etc.)
I will keep on monitoring everything works correctly in the coming days.
Jessy
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Re: How to handle change of HDD from catalog perspecitve?

Post by Jessy »

Hert wrote: 08 May 23 20:41 In Folders, right click on the root folder and select “Map to the correct physical folder”. Then point to the root of the new drive.
Thanks Hert, I actually found the answer from you in another topic. You have been quicker :wink:
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