I do not understand the structure of files in lightroom

I use ligtroom for a little while now, and I never really took the time to try to understand the structure of files in lightroom. Looking at it now, I'm totally confused.

I'm on vacation and take tons of pictures and their import to my laptop (and an external hard drive).

Since my trip is coming to an end, I'm wondering how to transfer all these catalogs to my office when I get home. Without messing up all the files that are already there.

So I start looking at my Lightroom folders in my documents, and I like lightroom 6 6 develop records, 2 6 lightroom develop files previews.irdata, which I am unable to open and have no idea what is in them.

And I have a folder on my desktop called new lightroom 6, which has a file called lightroom 6 in which has all my latest pix.

How to consolidate this mess when I know not what is half of the files because I can't open most of them?

Small question is - how to get catalogs and collections of my computer laptop lightroom app to my desktop lightroom app?

Thank you

Lightroom does not really use a file structure, it's a database.

The photos must be in a folder somewhere in your operating system, and when you import a photo into Lightroom, the location of the actual folder and file name is entered in the Lightroom database, so now Lightroom knows where your photo.

Now, I don't know it that all of these folders on your computer that you describe. You'll have to sort this possibility, somehow, perhaps by opening each folder Lightroom (not in your operating system) to see the benefits. Now, when you look in your operating system, you must find all the folders that contain pictures of Lightroom (you just find these files in the previous sentence), as well as the folder that contains your catalog and presets and preferences file. The default locations for these things and instructions to move your installation of Lightroom to another computer, are here: How can I move a computer to a new Lightroom?

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