Changing the location of Lightroom and Photoshop on the hard disk
Oct 26, 2021 21:15:07 #
Hoping for some advice from the experts.
Have a 2 terabyte hard drive which I partitioned into .2 TB "C drive" and 1.8 TB "D drive". Thought I would keep programs on the C drive and data on the D drive. Sadly, I find that the free space on the C drive is often reduced to less than 10-12 GB and things begin to slow down and I get warnings when processing. I respond by using "disk cleanup" and search for things to delete and general clean up to recover some free space.
I have Lightroom, Photoshop, and several Topaz products all currently installed on the C drive.
What I'd like to do is uninstall the Adobe and Topaz products and re-install them on the D drive (which has 1.3 TB to spare) and free up a bunch of space on the C drive.
Looking for warnings about how I not lose connection to all the files the Adobe and Topaz products need to preserve several years work.
Of course I'll back up both drives before doing anything else.
Have a 2 terabyte hard drive which I partitioned into .2 TB "C drive" and 1.8 TB "D drive". Thought I would keep programs on the C drive and data on the D drive. Sadly, I find that the free space on the C drive is often reduced to less than 10-12 GB and things begin to slow down and I get warnings when processing. I respond by using "disk cleanup" and search for things to delete and general clean up to recover some free space.
I have Lightroom, Photoshop, and several Topaz products all currently installed on the C drive.
What I'd like to do is uninstall the Adobe and Topaz products and re-install them on the D drive (which has 1.3 TB to spare) and free up a bunch of space on the C drive.
Looking for warnings about how I not lose connection to all the files the Adobe and Topaz products need to preserve several years work.
Of course I'll back up both drives before doing anything else.
Oct 26, 2021 23:19:59 #
I strongly recommend you resize your C partition to 500 Gb instead of the 200 you currently have. You can do this by using MS Computer Management>Disk Management (right click on My Computer/This PC and choose Manage) Then click on Disk Management, when the list populates go to the bottom middle portion where the drives are graphically show and click on D:\, right click and choose Shrink Volume. Shrink it to 1.5 Tb. When done click on the C:\ right click and choose Extend Volume. Extend it to the max permitted (0.5 Tb)
All that said, I can see no useful reason to partition 1 drive into 2. Any serious problem with 1 drive will effect the other and I speak from experience... painful experience. :(
Why not go buy a 500 Gb drive, SSD or regular and clone your C drive onto it and then you can delete your current C drive and extend your D drive to the full 2 Tb.
All that said, I can see no useful reason to partition 1 drive into 2. Any serious problem with 1 drive will effect the other and I speak from experience... painful experience. :(
Why not go buy a 500 Gb drive, SSD or regular and clone your C drive onto it and then you can delete your current C drive and extend your D drive to the full 2 Tb.
Oct 27, 2021 06:28:27 #
Thanks, for the quick response. I'll mull it over and see what others have to say as well, before plunging in. As you might guess, I am a professional procrastinator!
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