Move the files to an external hard drive - LR3.2, Mac Snow Leopard

I apologize for this right now, but after reading other threads in this forum, buy a book, and I watch a video, I am more confused than ever! I want to spend 6 months of folders, subfolders, metadata, and keywords, off my portable hard drive to an external hard drive to free up room on my laptop (not). Then, I want to be able to access with the LR catalog on the external hard drive. The catalog that I use currently (showing all my photos 2010) also contains more recent files that I don't want to export because they are still topical. My studies, there are all kinds of suggestions on the creation of new files by drag-and - drop, using the sign, export catalogues etc, but nothing that tells me step by step how to achieve what I want to do! Pourrait - a nice person please guide me through this?

Thnaks,

Richard

To make LR 'see' your external hard drive, you must make a top folder of in LR.

In the library Module, click the icon "+" in the folders Panel, and then click "add a folder".

Navigate to your external hard drive and create the folder, call it what you want it to be.

Right-click on the new folder and click on "add a folder"; the player must then become visible.

Then, just drag and drop your images into this folder.

WW

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