Use Lightroom to reorganize the Structure of the file

I've been using Lightroom for a few years now, and unfortunately, I don't have a blueprint for good record when I started.  My portfolio is currently distributed between several portable drives.  I recently bought a Drobo, and I want to spend all my photos on this drive.  I would prefer that all my photos were organized in folders by date on the Drobo.

Is there a way to have Lightroom move all the photos in a catalog on a different hard drive with a new structure of the Organization (while preserving all the changes I've done)?

Thank you!

Yes, there is a way, but you must do it manually.

First download LR to recognize your Drobo as a reader. Then - from in LR! -create the folders and subfolders on the Drobo.

Then in the library Module's grid view go to ' all my photographs "(upper-left in the catalog Panel)-you could gave it a different name.

Go > view > sort > Capture time. All your images should now be sorted according to the date and time.

You can then use filters to filter all the photographs taken on a certain day / month / year.

All these select and drag and drop them into your new folder on the Drobo.

Do it with all your images.

WW

PS: It would be wise to do everything from in LR. If you create folders outside the LR and then drag the images in these cases also outside LR, you will get the message "missing image" galore and you spend a lot of time to score LR to the new location of your images. If you do everything for in LR, the catalog will be updated automatically.

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