I know, silly question but????

[madf1man]

Imported a gazillion or so photos into LR2 on C drive. Had a scare last week and thought I had lost it all due to my negligence? Any how have bought a new super size internal aux drive for storage. Transfering everything to it in raw original form using LR export. Once done I will still have the same original files in LR on C drive and when I remove from LR and delete from C drive it will ask me am I sure I want to delete original file. Scary thought. Have I infact made an new original file on new drive and its OK to delete these old ones on Cdrive. Thanks

[madf1man]

Looking for help please

[Noel]

I give it a go.

[ldelacruz]

Trey,
Right click both folders and make sure they are the same size and have the same amount of files.

[madf1man]

OK swallow this Lonnie. Its done and I checked file size. On Cdrive its 1.75 GB with 1300 files. Tranfered file or copied onto new drive is 21.5GB with 2500 or so files. What the H?

[ldelacruz]

Did you copy the whole C: drive or just the lightroom folder?

[madf1man]

As usual I think I am over complicting things. Felt as though I had to use LR for this since pics were in LR. Am now just going into windows and copin folder from C to E drive. LR apparently adds its tag of info to to each file I'm guessing increasing its size massively. I am sure folks who read this will get a chuckle but I,ve been sweatin this for some time now. Kinda like makin copies of a negative fom film days kinda thing with quality drop!

[MicWayWal]

Trey,

I am like you. I am always very careful when deleting files. That is why I don't delete unless I have two more exact copies in two different places. If I wanted to delete them off my C drive, I would make sure they are on my E drive AND one other place; either another hard drive, DVD or CD.

[madf1man]

Good advice Michael. Thanks

[ldelacruz]

Do you know what folder your lightroom files are in? If so I would do what Michael said and just do a straight copy to a new drive as a 2nd backup. Fry's has 320 gig portable drives for $54 in yesterdays paper. Once you have your backup then copy from your C: again to the new drive, then point Lightroom to the new drive and location. Double check before deleting.