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Moving your library

Your whole library lives in one folder. You can move that folder to another location — an external SSD, a cloud-synced drive — without exporting and re-importing.

Choosing a new location

  1. Open Settings → Library.
  2. Find the library location and choose a new folder.
  3. Morgue moves your files there and remembers the new location for next launch.

How the move works

Morgue moves your library safely:

  • On the same drive, the move is instant.
  • Across drives (e.g. to an external or cloud disk), Morgue copies everything first, then switches to the new location, and only then removes the originals — so an interrupted move can't lose data or leave your library half-moved.
Cloud drives sync in the background

If you move your library onto a cloud-synced folder, give it time to finish syncing, and be aware that syncing thousands of files takes a while. A local SSD is fastest; cloud is convenient for cross-machine access.

Reverting

To move back, just choose the original location again in Settings → Library.

Moving vs. backing up

Moving relocates your live library. It is not a backup — for that, keep a separate export .zip on another drive.