Lightroom 4 - creates a new copy of the catalog

I use to have all my pictures in a single catalog - "MyPics". It contains around 50.000 photos.
Last week, LR4 has silently created a new copy of my catalog: "MyPics-2". No warning, no message. I did not notice immediately.
The 2 catalog files have roughly the same size, but the preview folders are very different:
old: 350MB, 100 files, 115 folders
new: 280GB, 47000 files, 34000 folders
I assume it moved the preview files from old to new.
I am wondering what happened. Has anybody seen something similar?
Is my assumption of moved preview files correct?
Is this related to the upgrade from LR3.6 to LR4?
Thanks for any hint!
Jean-Paul
LR4, Win7x64, 8GB Ram

[email protected] wrote:
Last week, LR4 has silently created a new copy of my catalog: "MyPics-2". No warning, no message. I did not notice immediately.
Is this related to the upgrade from LR3.6 to LR4?
When you upgraded to LR4, Lightroom would have asked you if you want your existing LR3 catalog upgraded to LR4. Part of that dialog would have been telling you what the new catalog would be called (giving you the chance to choose a different name and location)....I guess you missed that part, amd you clicked through and thus accepted LR's default.
So during the catalog upgrade the existing LR3 catalog (MyPics.lrcat) would have been left in place, and the new LR4 version (called MyPics-2.lrcat) would have been created. Also during that process the existing LR3 Preview cache (MyPics Previews.lrdata) would have been 'confiscated' by LR4 to become the preview cache for the upgraded catalog (and so would have been renamed MyPics-2 Previews.lrdata).
I guess you have subsequently started up LR3 again, which would immediately have created a new previews cache (MyPics Previews.lrdata) which will slowly get bigger if you carry on using LR3....but initially it would be very small as you have discovered.
So just to be clear:
MyPics.lrcat is your LR3 catalog
MyPics-2.lrcat is your LR4 catalog. I personally rename upgraded catalogs to include the LR version number in order to avoid confusion.

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