Catalog merge - 1 player on 2, old computer to the new?

Another catalog... number one I can't find discussion of. I've been using Lightroom since the beginning on an old PC running Windows XP (currently 3.5 worm). How I started using LR should only import the images I wanted to work with. Basically, they are all in the same parent directory (/ images) and fairly well organized. Having just set up a new Windows 7 PC with lots of memory and speed, I would like to import all my digital photos (100 +) to LR. I would also like to have my old catalog, which contains metadata about images of ~ 2 600 with whom I worked.

I would like to have the catalog on my boot drive; all images are on another, more great disc. So far, I have not been able to do this work. Most of the attempts result in the catalogue on the boot drive and unable to find the images. No parent folder appear in the folder C: (cataloged), so I can't point all of the batch of images catalogued the right reader. It seems that the only alternative that I made this folder by folder.

Suggestions are very welcome!

If I were in your situation, I'd start freash start.

But first: it is generally not recommended that you put the LR catalog on the boot drive - assuming that is where LR. To speed the LR it is better to have the catalog on a drive different, but very fast.

It might even be an external hard drive, provided that it is an eSata drive.

For all your images in LR I would say as follows:

You must keep your existing LR catalog or you loose the work you did in the past. And you will need to enter all the other images of this catalogue.

First of all I would separate the images already imported into LR and all other images. Open LR with your existing catalog and organize the images already imported into LR. In LR move them to a folder named descriptive. If you moved or renamed these images from LR nee, you need to point LR to the new location.

You will be able to see the folder parent by the descriptive name in your operating system (Finder / Win Explorer) to let you know that it is those already in LR and in its catalogue.

Then I organize all my other images (those not yet imported into LR) where I want them and in the folders as I would like. I do this in my OS and organize them in case one of the parents (with subfolders). Then after that, you'd have two parent folders on your hard drive, a 'Images already in LR' and a 'Images to import in LR.

Then I would open LR and all those images of the parent would incorporate "Pictures to import into LR" folder in one shot. This way LR would build a catalog representative the 'News' on your hard drive and you don't have to make any conclusion of 'missing' images and or folders.

Finally you can rearrange the images that were previously in LR. But do it in LR LR can track changes.

WW

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