How do you move a Lightroom catalog from one HD to another?

Question

I recently got a new Hard Drive, much larger than my previous one. I'm wanting to move my entire library to the new HD, but I'm not seeing an easy way to do it. Can anyone out there offer me some help in achieving this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Oh it's soooooo easy!! It's just dragging files over.

You just need to find the catalog on your HD. It will have .lrcat on the end of it. Look also for the one or two .lrdata files and the backups folder. Make sure LR is closed. Move all of those files/folder into the new HD.

Make sure LR is not running : )

If you don't know where your catalog is then use the catalog preferences window and choose Catalog location.