computer requirements implementation of lightroom

Hello

I am a new photographer and I use lightroom on my computer.  I've accumulated a ton of photos, and now they are distributed in different areas of my computer.  It works well for me and I think I need to rethink my set up.   Currently, I have all my pictures from 2015 residing on an internal hard drive 1 terabyte on my mac.  All of my old photos are on a disk external hard 2terabyte.  Then I have the backups generated from lightroom on another hard disk of 2 terabytes.

I'm running out of room all the time on my internal hard drive and I think I have a 4 terabyte external hard drive to store all my photos to.  So I have a lot of old photos on these discs now, it is out of control.  Does anyone have a recommendation of a way to configure your computer to manage all this?   This people me rid of old photos at some point, or is there a way to archive old files so that I can free up space on my hard drive?

I'm sure there's a way better than what I'm doing, and I'd appreciate some advice.

Thank you!

Nicole

I'm running out of room all the time on my internal hard drive and I think I have a 4 terabyte external hard drive to store all my photos to.  So I have a lot of old photos on these discs now, it is out of control.  Does anyone have a recommendation of a way to configure your computer to manage all this?   This people me rid of old photos at some point, or is there a way to archive old files so that I can free up space on my hard drive?

First of all, I doubt most of the people get rid of the pictures, just because they are low on disk space. I certainly didn't, and it sounds like a terrible idea to me. Disc purchase more space sounds like a much better idea.

When a particular drive is getting full (or aging) and/or you want to move the photos to another drive, you must move the photos using your operating system and then re - connect in Lightroom using these instructions: Adobe Lightroom - find folders and files moved or missing. If you choose to do so, move the whole 'tree' or the hierarchy of intact files, move the files and photos to the area around to within the hierarchy.

How to keep track of all this? Well, honestly, what Lightroom is for. It is designed to be your Digital Asset Manager or dam short. You can have the pictures stored anywhere you like, and organized in Lightroom using any means you want. In particular, I choose to not organize in folders or disks, I chose to organize by keywords and metadata, while I absolutely do not care and do not need to know which folder contains a picture in particular, find it me by keywords and other metadata. I store my photos in subfolders with folder names by default (which is the date of capture) and place all these subfolders within a parent folder named "Photos". That's all. If I ever run out of space on a disk, I would continue the process on the 2nd disk, put new pictures inside a subfolder named with the date of capture within a parent folder (perhaps "Photos2") on the 2nd disk. But I wouldn't hold the photo that is on the disc, is that Lightroom is, all I have to do is search by keyword or other metadata.

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