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<blockquote data-quote="flash" data-source="post: 113207" data-attributes="member: 885">Easy.This will take a fair bit of time although you don't need to be there for most of it.Once you have your images on your biggest external drive, hook up the new drive. You then open Lightroom and get to the import dialogue. On the left select the big external where your images are. Up the top select either &quot;copy&quot; or &quot;move&quot;. On the right in the file handling section select &quot; do not import suspected duplicates&quot;. In the section below select where you want your images to end up.Doing it this way will make Lightroom copy your images (or move if you selected that) to a nice clean folder structure on the new drive. If you tick the do not import duplicates box and sort by capture time (down the bottom of the import area) then you should be able to scroll through and see where Lightroom has found duplicates. You can also unselect any images you don't want to import into LR.If your images are on more than one drive hold down the command key and select multiple drives but don't try to import more than the fresh drive you have available.Then hit the import button. Go find something to do for a while.Note: LR stores RAW+JPEG as one file (but moves both). If you want hem seperately it's in the preferences.Gordon</blockquote>

[QUOTE="flash, post: 113207, member: 885"] Easy. This will take a fair bit of time although you don't need to be there for most of it. Once you have your images on your biggest external drive, hook up the new drive. You then open Lightroom and get to the import dialogue. On the left select the big external where your images are. Up the top select either "copy" or "move". On the right in the file handling section select " do not import suspected duplicates". In the section below select where you want your images to end up. Doing it this way will make Lightroom copy your images (or move if you selected that) to a nice clean folder structure on the new drive. If you tick the do not import duplicates box and sort by capture time (down the bottom of the import area) then you should be able to scroll through and see where Lightroom has found duplicates. You can also unselect any images you don't want to import into LR. If your images are on more than one drive hold down the command key and select multiple drives but don't try to import more than the fresh drive you have available. Then hit the import button. Go find something to do for a while. Note: LR stores RAW+JPEG as one file (but moves both). If you want hem seperately it's in the preferences. Gordon [/QUOTE]

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