Rerouting main folder LR...

.. .so I initially made the mistake of letting LR choose the main folder location.  Now, I want to redirect the program to an external drive which is no problem of storage.  So far, that I exported (as a catalogue) all relevant data on the new drive... There lies in "My Lightroom" and as such is not detected by LR in its current state.  I have not deleted the original files on my C drive, frankly I'm chicken... can't seem to find the magic bullet to redirect.  I hope that this forum will provide the info that I need!

There is no "waste" If you do file-> open catalog and it point to the newly created catalog file. Lightroom doesn't care that the old one exists.

The danger is that you (the human operator of Lightroom) go back (probably by accident) of a catalog to another and suddenly realize that changes made in a catalog are not available in the other. So as a protective measure, once you are sure that the catalog you choose to use works properly, I would either remove (or zip) another.

But... which still leaves copies of your photos (one on the C: drive and an external hard disk). And that is a major, you probably know, but I forget anyway because it is so important. You must have backups of your photos and your catalog files.  Do you have? If you delete the copies of the C: drive, you will have only one copy of everything? You need two copies, on different physical drives.  If you do not have two copies on different physical disks, and your drive breaks down (which it certainly will at some point in the future), you now have zero copies of everything, and it's not good. A Word to the wise and stuff...

Hell, why not uninstall and reinstall after cleaning the drive C?

If you want to do extra work that gives no advantage, go!

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