Exporting Folders into new External Hard Drive (without photos)

[Maryarena]

Hi,

I currently have two external hard drives where I have all my bird photos classified into folders by the name of the bird. There are more or less a hundred. I have one external hard drive where I import all the photos to and the other external where I backup the first external hard drive every night. They are getting full and I will soon have to purchase two more, but I was wondering how I could export all the folder hierarchy into the new external hard drive. It surely will be a chore to have to create each one again.

Thank you!

Gloria

[Victoria Bampton]

Hi Gloria, good to see you posting again!

Are you Mac or Windows? My first thought would be to copy the contents of the drives over to the new drives using Explorer/Finder (or better still, file sync software with verification), and then rename/reletter the new drives to match the old drives. LR wouldn't even know the difference that way! You certainly shouldn't need to recreate the hierarchy whichever way we do things.