How To Setup Lightroom Catalogs To Save Your Computers Hard Drive

If you aren't setting up your Lightroom Catalogs then your computers hard drive will be filling up without you even knowing!
I made this mistake for a few years in the early 2000's before realising my mistake. Once you get this setup right your editing experience will improve. Let me know if you have any questions.
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[@niidogo9315]

This is tier 1 advice; THANK YOU. Stumbled onto this video while researching how to migrate a LR Catalog to MAC. Please consider making a video like if possible.

[@dreamlifephotography]

Awesome !! Glad to hear, I will get on to a video on the migrating, thanks for the idea🙏🏽

[@jasonlacey5979]

Brilliant... First time I have ever seen such a great explanation. Thank you Tom

[@dreamlifephotography]

epic Jason, glad it helped and thanks so much for the feedback

[@wildpatagoniafilms16]

Yup! totally agree! I do the the same thing! Placed my catalog long ago on my external hard drive! Great post! This channel is so underrated!!!! By the way, I am the guy from NYC that you sent the DM a couple of weeks ago! ;) cheers!

[@dreamlifephotography]

Yew!! thanks ledge stoked to have you on here... really appreciate your kind words and encouragement

[@acardena13]

Great video! This is going to be super helpful for those large folders with tons of edited photos

[@dreamlifephotography]

Yew! cheers for the comment, yeah you really need to be saving these Lightroom Catalogs somewhere different to the default, worked so much better for me when I switched

[@Jak3yyyy]

Great video! Do you have a video or tutorial for moving Lightroom catalogs that were already on your computers hard drive over to an external hard drive?

[@dreamlifephotography]

Great Question... I haven't had to do this before... I would say you could just save the folders from the computers Harddrive to your external, but they may not line up when you open in lightroom ... I would have to test this before making a video, but its good point, cheers for your input

[@hypnoraythompson5824]

Thanks for sharing this. Really well explained. and very usefull.

[@dreamlifephotography]

Thanks for your comment, great to know it helped, its so important to get this catalog system right as soon as you can

[@Pridventures]

Super handy video this right here

[@dreamlifephotography]

Thanks so much Luke... appreciate this feedback mate

[@brettwood737]

Brilliant. This is going to save me so much grief. Thanks Tom

[@dreamlifephotography]

Awesome Brett, yeah its just a little shift that can make a huge difference... especially if you DON'T do it hey? cheers mate

[@ErikaVargas-dx5qp]

This was great! So easy to follow, thank you. I do have a question, I'm new at this so I just want to double check... I shouldn't unplug the external hard drive until I'm done working on all my photos on LR so everything saves there, correct? Like even if it takes me days? Or can I unplug it and just plug it back in when I'm ready to save? I'm working on my laptop. Can anyone tell me?

[@dreamlifephotography]

Thanks for your feedback on the video. Yes so obviously when you are working on your photos you need to have your external HD plugged in. But you can unplug it and plugged it back in later and then continue to edit them or save as jpgs... does this answer your question?

[@fazorba]

Hi Tom! Legend Do you sell any surf presets?

[@dreamlifephotography]

Hey mate, thanks for your message... No I have never done that....I just feel each edit is unique to that particular session, so I can't see how presets can help that much, but if they can truely help someone progress as a photographer then I would be open to making them for people... have you found other photographers presets helpful in the past? it would good to know?

[@jenaehuckins8544]

will you need to import your presets in each new Cat or will they be in lightroom still with the new Cat?

[@dreamlifephotography]

Your presets will remain, they are tied to the lightroom software and NOT the catalogue ... great question thou, and something I should have mentioned in the video, so thanks for bringing it up in the comments

[@thesandrathe]

Whenever external hard drive fills up, I should make new catalog for new external drive?

[@dreamlifephotography]

Yes!! that is correct. Every new hard drive you will need to create a new catalog... and if you forget how to do it, just reference this video