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<p>I have put together a hierarchical Lightroom keyword list of plants, animals, and other living beings, based on the <a href="http://www.itis.gov/" target="_blank">Integrated Taxonomic Information System</a> (ITIS) database.<br> This is a very, very large list, and may be an overkill for many people. It has over 460,000 items, will take a long time to import into Lightroom, and may slow down your keyword searches due to its size. It does contain every known living species (as far as I know), so if you photograph a lot of animals or plants (or even bacteria) you might find it useful.<br> If you're interested, the list can be downloaded directly from <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4i4tkWr407CT1MwazA2eWZlVkU&authuser=0" target="_blank">here</a>. More information on my blog, at <a href="http://www.itallclicks.com/2015/05/like-many-others-i-use-adobe-lightroom.html" target="_blank">http://www.itallclicks.com/2015/05/like-many-others-i-use-adobe-lightroom.html</a>.</p>

You can also try mounting a network drive locally to put your catalog. See this article for more info http://www.louish.com/index.php?bt=Using_the_same_Adobe_Lightroom_catalog_files_over_your_network/&year=2009&month=06 Note: I haven't tried this yet myself but I'm fairly familiar with mounting points and this should work as long as you only open the catalog on one computer at the time.

<p>Alan, you are best off leaving the Lightroom catalog and previews on the C drive as this will give you the best performance.<br> As long as the folders on C are truly empty, you can safely delete them from Lightroom (check in WIndows Explorer first just in case there is something).<br> It's up to you whether you want to transfer Documents, Videos and other folders to D. This will give you slightly less performance, but a lot more space, and less risk of filling up your system drive. If you are using Windows 8 you can create new folders on D, move the folders, and then in WIndows Explorer right-click on the new folder, and choose Include in Library -> Documents (or whichever it is). Be sure to select it as the default location for new files.</p>

<p>Lightroom won't let you move the files directly into the drive's root. You must first create a folder under D, and you can then drag your image folders into that one.</p> <p>You will get a slight slowdown by moving the images to the D drive, but for the most part it will be negligible. Lightroom caches the thumbnails, and also builds a cache of full-size images. You may see a slight delay the first time you zoom in or edit an image, but after that it will be quick.<br> Since C is your system drive, you want to make sure that you leave as much free space there as possible, or the whole system will slow down.</p>

Alan, from the size of your drives I'm willing to bet that C: is an SSD (solid state drive), while D: is a large empty disk. You may want to move all your images from C to D, as this will leave more space for programs on C. To do this, you should move them within Lightroom. Make sure that Lightroom is showing you the C and D drives. Simply take the folder (or folders) that Lightroom shows you under C and drag them over the D drive. Next time you import images, tell Lightroom to place them under the Images folder you created on the D drive. Lightroom will remember this setting for future imports.