Relocating imported Lightroom images?

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Is there any way to relocate photos en masse that have been imported into Lightroom?

Basically I've got a load of photos in E:\My Pictures\Photos (with no unified directory structure) and I'd like to relocate them all to E:\Pictures\Photos, without losing the processing metadata, etc. that I've applied to them in Lightroom.

I'm probably missing something pretty basic, knowing me :p

Thanks :)
 
That's almost what I wanted but not quite; that method allows you to move photos around within your current library directory structure, whereas I wanted to move the entire thing to a completely different location.

Turns out you can actually do it by setting Lightoom to save metadata to XMP (under catalog settings), moving the folders to their new location, then right clicking on them in the Lightroom Library view and selecting 'Locate missing folder'.

Thanks anyway! :)
 
Open Lightroom, have your folder structure visible and drag the folder "Photos" into "Pictures", and it moves them on disk too.
 
That's what I would've done, but Lightroom only shows the folders that have imported photos in, so it wasn't showing E:\Pictures or any of its subfolders, meaning I couldn't drag stuff into it.
 
Create the folder in Lightroom?
That way when you do, it adds it to the database.

Or, create it in windows...move one file over to it, do the "missing photo----locate" thing in lightroom, hey presto, its there on your list, and move the rest over :)
 
Duh, didn't occur to me you could add already-existing folders in Lightroom – thought you had to import to do that.

Didn't put my brain to that one, sorry :p
 
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