How can I protect he'S catalogs when installing software for SSD drive & 2nd data disc

I know that this has been answered a thousand times... but when I search, I find that a 1 000 answers and none relate exactly to my question...

I have a laptop

I have a technician install a 1 TB Solid State Drive adjacent to the existing "spin drive" provided with the laptop (1 TB)

I'm having the existing drive spin "wiped clean" and reformatted

I him have to put all THE SOFTWARE, including 10 Windows on the SSD drive

CC - Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop will operate the SSD

My 'current' workflow about 6 weeks of photography is retained on the SSD for faster treatment

These last about 6 to 8 months of photography will be kept on the existing "spin drive" came with the computer.

Previous work will be kept on a 3 TB external storage drive

I'm dragging 633 GB of photos of my 'drive spin' on my drive external hard to ensure the guard with the upgrade is performed.

...........................

And here is my fight...  I don't know enough about Adobe CC to make sure that I have all my files protect.       I know that I have several catalogs, but the drop-down list on the menu (at the signing in LR) shows about 8-10 choice and I'm only using 4 or 5!

How Lightroom find my Photos after I drag them back to the newly - reformatted "spin drive?   I know how to find a lost file manually... So should I do hundreds of records, I have?

Where my LR catalog folder will be stored?   Right now it is in my pictures folder.   It will be there if the Adobe program resides in the SSD?

I have more questions... but that's enough for now...

Thank you

John

First of all, your CPU is old and slow by today's standards, and clearly a faster CPU would do a faster job of making these backups.

In the second place, it is a very large catalog file, 9.2 GB. (Are you sure that you watched the .lrcat file and not the amount of space occupied by the photos?) Yes, you are supposed to use Windows Explorer to find the size of the. LRCAT file. For comparison, my catalog with almost 30 000 images is only 1.75 GB. All the brushing, you did apparently exploded the size of your catalog.

You can reduce the size of the catalog file by clearing the history on each photo (this leaves the changes in place but you will be able to go back in history and see the sequence of steps that you used). I'm not aware of a way to do bulk on each photo, but in the back of my mind, I think that this has been discussed in this forum and you might want to search for.

The last thing you might consider of doing backups until you go to sleep. Just leave Lightroom open until you go to bed, then close and let the process of backup with happiness.

So, that's all that I can think of to make this faster process right now (other that to split the catalog file, which has many disadvantages). Faster processor, remove the story and let Lightroom its backups when you sleep.

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