Lightroom - Migrating Photos

[d2creative]

This is a two part question... two different scenarios.

1. At home I'm using LR and I'm replacing my 300gb internal hard drive with a 1.5tb internal hard drive, so I'm just moving all my photos to the new drive. Do I need to do anything within LR or anything to make sure that LR will find the photos? I was planning on naming the new drive the same as the old drive and it will be in the same drive bay. The drive I'm replacing (the one that contains all my photos) is not the same hard drive that my system and apps are installed on. It's a separate drive.


2. At the office I'm currently using Aperture but would like to switch over to Lightroom. Can the Aperture library be imported into LR? Will I lose all my adjustments? Can anything be done to conserve as much of the aperture library as possible?

Thanks!

[Sonny]

I can only help you with your first question.

First thing you want to do is BACKUP your catalog. Then you want to export your photos to a catalog. Move that exported catalog to your new drive (copy & paste). From the new location import that catalog into Lightroom.


http://digital-photography-school.co...htroom-catalog
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2...rt-catalog.htm
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroo...D0178967D.html


For even more help check out the Lightroom Forums. Those guys over there are great. Everyone is just as friendly and helpful as our TPF members.

Sonny added 13 Minutes and 47 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Dennis,

The LR forum is under going a huge system upgrade. Not sure how long they'll be down. I can't wait to see their new site!

[d2creative]

Thanks, Sonny!

Before I did all that I decided to swap the drives and see what happens. I have 4 drive bays in my Mac Pro. #1 is my system disk, #2 is my photos disk, and #3 is my backup of #2. I stuck one new drive in the empty slot #4, formatted it and then copied everything from drive #2. Then i took out all drives and put the newly formatted drive into bay #2 and the other new drive (not yet formatted) into bay #3 and the old drive #2 into bay #4. I restarted, made sure to change the name of the old drive #2 and now changed the name of the new drive to the old name of drive #2. Still with me? Then I started lightroom and everything looked normal. I went to the catalog settings menu and lo and behold... LR was pointing to the catalog on the new drive, ignoring the old one. So to recap, i just made sure the new drive had the same name and was in the same drive bay as the original drive. Not sure if the bay matters, it's probably just following the directory with the correct name.

So I think I'm all set.... I hope!

[wondershots]

If it's the same drive volume you should be good.

[d2creative]

Originally Posted by wondershots

If it's the same drive volume you should be good.

It's a completely new drive, 5x the size, but it's in the same bay the original used to be in and named the exact same thing.


So no advice on moving my other computer from aperture to lightroom?
I figured that was a long shot...