Moving images from 1 catalog into another/book

I am creating a photo album via LightRoom and Blurb. I have ~ 250 of my images available to me in this catalog. I am trying to move an additional 50 images from a different catalog (or Quick Collection) into the book catalog. Can someone please tell me how?

I may be misusing my terminology. To hopefully better summarize: I have ~300 images from a collection (called Myanmar slideshow). I created a book from this collection. Only 240 of the images transferred (I understand due to limits by Blurb to 20-240 images). I then manipulated the book pages, so there were multiple images per page. This reduced the number of pages to ~95. That would theoretically allow me 145 more pages in the end. So I have 55 images from the original collection (slideshow) that I would now like to add to the book (this book is now a collection?). I have tried click and drag, import from another catalog. If any one knows how to move it over, I would greatly appreciate it. If blurb would allow me to create a second album and then they combine them, that would work for me, but I can't seem to communicate with a human on that end. Thanks in advance for your advice.

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How do I move images from one catalog to another?

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Mahombi wrote:
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pspack1 wrote:
How do you move pictures from one catalog to another? I have just got the program and have moved pictures into the default catalog. I have now created several new catalogs and want to move pics from the default into the new catalogs. I don't see this answer in the general help or my "dummies" book.
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To: ROBERT CHIAVARINI <[email protected]>
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Subject: trouble with keyword import in LR5 from one catalog to another
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                insert node element extrainfo {
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                , $new/a/d
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                , $new/a/h
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              return $d'
             passing sd.xml_to_update as "old"
                   , sd.xml_to_extract_from as "new"
             returning content
         indent
from sample_data sd;
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      <d2>vald2</d2>
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      <name>fred</name>
      <type>book</type>
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<xmlnode>
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    <subnode2>val2</subnode2>
    <type>book</type>
</xmlnode>
<xmlnode>
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    <subnode2>val4</subnode2>
    <type>car</type>
</xmlnode>
</root>
If it's easier, I *think* we would be ok with something like:
<newnode>
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<type name="bob">car</type>
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The closest I've come is:
with sample_data as (select xmltype('<root>
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                                         <subnode1>val1</subnode1>
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                                       </xmlnode>
                                       <xmlnode>
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                                       </xmlnode>
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                            xmltype('<a>
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                                       <h>
                                         <h1>valh1</h1>
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                                         <name>fred</name>
                                         <type>book</type>
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                                       <multinode>
                                         <name>bob</name>
                                         <type>car</type>
                                         <head>0</head>
                                       </multinode>
                                     </a>') xml_to_extract_from
                      from   dual)
select xmlserialize(document
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              modify (
                insert node element extrainfo {
                  $new/a/b
                , $new/a/d
                , $new/a/f
                , $new/a/h
                , element newnode {
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             returning content
         indent
         ) fred
from sample_data sd;
Which produces:
<newnode>
<name>fred</name>
<name>bob</name>
<type>book</type>
<type>car</type>
</newnode>
- obviously not right!
Can anyone provide any hints? I've tried searching for similar examples, but I mustn't be putting in the right search terms or something!

odie_63 wrote:
or, similarly, to get the alternate output :
copy $d := $old
modify (
insert node element extrainfo {
    $new/a/b
, $new/a/d
, $new/a/f
, $new/a/h
, element newnode {
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} as first into $d/root
return $d
So we're going with the second method, but I've discovered that the "$i/name" node is not always present. When that happens, I would like to use a default value (for example, "george"). I promise I've searched and searched, but I'm completely failing to turn up anything that sounds remotely like what I'm after (seriously, I can't believe my google-fu sucks this badly!).
Is there a simple way of doing it? The only thing that I've found that looks vaguely relevant is "declare default namespace...." but I'm not sure that that's the correct thing to use, or if it is, how I'm supposed to reference it when populating the attribute value.

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