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Over the years, my pictures have been stored on my laptop in various folders, as well as on 4 different external hard drives. I have pictures in Organizer 11 and another catalog with totally different pictures from Organizer 12. I have a new PC now and want to archive off a large portion of the pictures from old hard drive...but I don't want to lose the catalog data as I have many keytags etc for family and sports teams that my kids play on. I will need to access the sports catalog in particular this year as my son will graduate and I do special projects for all the senior players with pictures from all their prior playing years (school as well as local travel teams). I can't redo all this tagging and can't risk not being able to find images quickly.
Is there a way to export pictures from a catalog to an external drive and have Organizer update the catalog information to point to this new location and remove the reference to the old?
Also, is there a way to export certain data, like perhaps just all the school sports related pictures and have this accessible as a new catalog?
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Thanks everyone - I have a wealth of advise, options and warnings to shift thru here!
Really appreciate everyone taking the time to help me out
99jon seems to have the best solution for my unique situation - but so many of you added good tips or additional info - I really appreciate it - gained so much more knowledge just from these responses!
dj_paige - I appreciate your concerns for lost data or extra work - but reality is the files I am looking to move aren't very likely to ever be needed again. It's 1,000s and 1,000's of pictures of "other peoples kids" from 9 years of High school soccer, 4 years of College hockey and 11 years of club soccer. Obviously I am keeping the images featuring my own children or their close friends. I really just didn't want to clog up my new PC or waste space on my external drives (i have 4 totaling about 9 terabytes of storage)
My plan is to extract these unneeded pics to one of my older external drives - which will be dedicated as "archive" so I will always know where they are...save the metadata as suggested, and then delete then from the existing catalog so I can cut it down to size. It took 8 hours to do a full catalog back up of my PSE 11 catalog......only a little over 3 for my PSE12 - where I was much more disciplined in my "star" maintenance and deleted sub standards shots much more religiously!

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