Moving files lrcat and lrdata to another drive

I am under Lightroom 4 and keep all my photos on an external drive (LaCie), save up to an external one (LaCie Big), but the lrdata and the lrcat files are required on my boot drive, (Mac SSD), for some reason any and it is now so full that it is slowing upward / shutdown the computer.

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(File backups in the image above has simply data backups and cat files).

Obviously, I think, it would be better to move the data files and chat on the LC external drive but I'm worried to do this and then find that these files will not be judged by LR.

Please can someone tell me how to solve this problem, while my computer is still working? See you soon.

The catalog file can be moved, but if you move it to an external drive, I would add a word of warning.

It will almost certainly slow the operation of LR down unless you have a fast link external drive.  It is noted for stop copying you on the external drive as an experiment.  I would rename it while the copy that you don't get confused as to which is which.  Simply copy the lrcat file.  LR will rebuild the file preview.

Personally, I would watch other files that can be moved (starting with the LR backup files, because they should not be on the same drive as your main catalog anyway in case the disk dies and you lose both the direct catalogue and all your backups... in case you don't want to not save backups elsewhere too).   After that I move files that are data media / of the SSD... Movies, music, Documents etc.

As to why the catalog is on your SSD, well that's where he runs fastest of the (although the differences vary from one system to).  I have a separate SSD just for my LR catalog.

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