Originally posted by bob350:
Pretty good discussion of the drive space issue over in the Lightroom Queen forum (here ). The use of symbolic links looks interesting, but I have never ventured into such territory myself. |
Any use of a link as a redirect would incur the same penalty as moving the catalog off the fast drive. Moving the catalog to a rotating drive will incur a substantial penalty in response time, however the real impact on the responsiveness of the interface would be up for debate. There's no reason not to try it. To do so:
- Quit Lr
- Copy the catalog.lrcat, Previews.lrdata, and (if present) Smart Previews.lrdata files to a folder on the rotating drive
- Double click the catalog.lrcat file in the new location; it should launch Lr with that catalog open.
- Test the performance of Lr. If it is acceptable, you can then delete the files in the old location. |
