Redirecting Lightroom to find pics that have been moved

After buying an external hard drive a friend has moved a few of his pictures from his computer hard drive to the external hard drive. Is there a way to get Lightroom to realize the pictures have been moved and get it redirected to the new location for the pictures?

Always use LR to move photos between folders or drives. Then LR knows the location. If LR does not know the location it gives you a "?". You can select the entry, browse to the new location, a select it

MCAsan wrote in post #16682169
Always use LR to move photos between folders or drives. Then LR knows the location. If LR does not know the location it gives you a "?". You can select the entry, browse to the new location, a select it

Thank you.

guntoter wrote in post #16682110
...Lightroom to realize the pictures have been moved and get it redirected to the new location for the pictures?

As above, tell him to always move within LR. As to the fix just select the top level folder and update the location for that folder and all the sub folders will be automatically found. No need to find each one separately.

BTW, I hope the friend knows to include the external drive in the Time Machine backups that should be going to a another drive. All too often updates to the Time Machine configuration are overlooked.