Moving PSE 4 Catalog to Lightroom
I presently use Photoshop Elements 4.0. Due to the bugs in PSE 8, I am thinking of buying
Lightroom and moving all my photos, tags, descriptions, etc. to Lightroom.
Am I going to encounter problems moving all my PSE 4 photos and catalog data to Lightroom, without losing data?
Bob
Well, I guess I stick with PSE and its bugs. I have lots of notes
on all my photos, so I would not want to lose them in the migration to LR.
Thanks,
Bob
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Had pse 8 on a Windows 7 PC with a catalog backup on an external drive. Now have a Mac with OS Mavericks. If install pse 12 or Lightroom on the Mac will I be able to use the old catalog backup or must I start from scratch.
If you made a full catalog backup using the organizer's backup command, and you did it to a removable drive, yes, you can restore it to the mac. A backup made on discs will not work, though.
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Moving my photos and PSE catalog to a new machine... and upgrading
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I am seeking advice on the best way to do the following:
- move my photos from my current laptop to a new laptop
- recreate my current PSE catalog on the new machine
- do both of the above while also upgrading to PSE 11 on the new machine.
The last time I did this sort of action -- moved my photos to a new machine -- it was sheer bedlum. Hoping to avoid the pain this time.
Do I first need to move my photos to the new laptop -- recreating the exact smae file structure that I have today -- amd them export and import the PSE catalog? I want to repeserve the album structure and tagging that I have created.....
Any help/pointers appreciated.The recommended way to move to another computer with a new OS or PSE version is to use the built-in backup and restore function in PSE.
- Start with a clean catalog : reconnect missing files, repair, optimize. That's good practice even if it is not strictly necessary.
- Do a full backup on an external media (external USB drives are safe and affordable). If you have several catalogs, do as many backups. Warning ! each separate backup must be in its own separate folder.
- Now, you have installed your PSE version (possibly a newer version) on the new computer, you can do a restore from each catalog backup. That will restore the catalog and the picture files ; if you have checked the option to keep the folder tree structure, it will be kept.
The smart thing about this process is that not only everything is restored, but if you have upgraded to a newer PSE version, the catalog will be automatically converted to the newer version ; furthermore, you have a backup!
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Move_your_photos_1
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/common-catalog-issues-upgrade-elements.html
Edit:
This shows why a backup from the organizer is often a better solution than external backup solutions. Suppose your old computer crashes, you can restore to a new computer and newer PSE version easily. It's also a good way to update a secondary computer (a laptop for instance) to the same 'sync' than the master computer. -
PSE 10 to Lightroom 3 catalog conversion
I have a PSE10 catalog and want to convert it to lightroom 3. Is there a way to do it? Thanks!
Let me preface my comment by telling you that I'm new to LR too, and started fresh with it rather than importing from another type of photo management software.
Considering that they are both Adobe products, it may be as simple as opening your PSE catalog in LR. Launch LR and under the file menu, Open Catalog. I would make a copy of the PSE catalog first.
Hope this works for you. Good luck! -
Lightroom won't upgrade second PSE catalog
I have successfully upgraded my main Photoshop Elements 11 catalog into Lightroom 5.6.
I have a second PSE catalog I'd also like to upgrade, but not import into the main Lightroom catalog (keeping it as a standalone catalog). According to the user manual, there should be a dropdown available from File > Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog that will allow me to select this second PSE catalog. However, the dropdown only expands the Catalog info without giving me access to any other catalog. Is there a workaround (or am I doing this wrong)?
For what it's worth, the PSE catalogs are on a separate drive from Lightroom, are in different folder from each other, and the location is not the default location the PSE 11 would have put them. Nevertheless, Lightroom found the first PSE catalog without difficulty.Per the user's guide, from the Library Module I: File > Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog
This brings up a dialog box that shows the most recently upgraded PSE catalog. Then, to quote the user's guide, "To choose a different PSE catalog, click the Elements drop-down menu."
There is no "Elements drop-down menu" within the dialog box to click on. The closest thing is an expand triangle opposite "Catalog info," but when clicked, that only displays more detail about the source PSE catalog I have already upgraded. There doesn't seem to be any way to browse to or select a second PSE catalog — which is what I'm trying to do. -
Import PSE 13 catalog into Lightroom 5.0
I have a very extensive PS Elements catalog, now in version 13 of PSE. I just bought Lightroom but dont want to re-catalog 30,000+ pictures. How can I import the PSE (version 13) catalog into Lightroom?
Are you running LR 5.7.1? If not upgrade from the Help menu.
Go to File >> Upgrade PSE Catalog
See image below - you should be able to select your Elements catalog from he drop-down list. -
Ok I hope someone can assist me. So I used the Move/Copy to another drive I moved all of my pictures using this command and now I have a mess. I use to have all of pictures neatly tucked away in individual folders. I needed to free up some space on my hard drive. Now all of my photos or at least most of them moved to the external hard drive but now I don't have any folders and there still are many pictures still remaining on Hard Drive. To make matters worse I thought I would do a back to the same external drive but I forgot to make a separate folder and now I have a mess. If anyone has a solution for this it would be greatly appreciated.
KJSMN a écrit:
Ok I hope someone can assist me. So I used the Move/Copy to another drive I moved all of my pictures using this command and now I have a mess. I use to have all of pictures neatly tucked away in individual folders. I needed to free up some space on my hard drive. Now all of my photos or at least most of them moved to the external hard drive but now I don't have any folders and there still are many pictures still remaining on Hard Drive.
The command 'Copy/move' is similar the 'Export' command. It works on individual files, not on folder trees or branches. The result always gets into the folder you have chosen.
What you want to do is to 'move' a folder tree or a part of it to another location. It's not moving the catalog (the database where the details and location on the drive of the pictures are kept) it's moving the pictures themselves while keeping their structure in the Explorer/Finder. I'd call that moving a 'library' or part of a library.
Keep in mind that 'moving' is only an image, a metaphor in computer language. You really first Copy something somewhere, then you Delete the original files.
How to do this library move ? If you do it from the Explorer/Finder by drag and drop or the menu, that seems easy, but the catalog is not updated, so you'll have to 'reconnect' your files. If you do it by small batches, that can work well.
It's recommended to do it from the Organizer itself. In the left folders panel, depending on the Elements version, you show the folder tree just like in the explorer/finder. You drag and drop, and the Organizer updates the path for the files in the catalog database.
Organizer: Moving folder trees or branches - Elements Village
To make matters worse I thought I would do a back to the same external drive but I forgot to make a separate folder and now I have a mess. If anyone has a solution for this it would be greatly appreciated.
You should deal with that problem first. Your backup has stored a number of copies of your files in a wrong folder, and you want to delete them. Most of those files begin by B00... It's relatively easy to find them and to delete them. That should recover most of the space on your drive.
The problem you have left now is that you have lost your folder tree structure. If you had no backup, there is no way to restore it exactly. It's possible to use other data in the catalog to create a new folder structure based on dates (recorded from exif in the picture files), on albums or themes like events or places. You select pictures corresponding to a specific empty folder and you move them there.
My advice is to keep the new structure simple since that does not add any advantage to using the catalog and its virtual organization of categories and keywords. -
Fixed Video CreationDate Sorting After Converting PSE Catalog
My experience with the problems of sorting videos properly by creating date nearly caused me to give up and go back to PSE Organizer...but I dug in, hacked out a solution, and now I'm sharing it in case it helps anyone else. This worked for me...but please realize that I could have destroyed my own catalogs if things weren't all as expected. My Python script below is a down & dirty, no frills way to convert and push all the "CORRECT" timestamps in my old PSE10 catalog to the horribly handled and mis-dated VIDEO files in LR4. Here's the script for all those who dare to take the life of their catalogs into their own hands.
# WARNING: Use at your own risk. This worked for me, but could completely #
# DESTROY your catalogs for both Lightroom (LR) and Photoshop #
# Express (PSE). Copy the {YourFilename}.lrcat from LR and the #
# catalog.pse??db from PSE to your local python directory and make #
# BACKUP copies of those files before you try to move the modified #
# ones back to their proper locations. #
# Auth...erm, Hacker: Sam Birch #
# Purpose: Fix Adobe's repeated inability to apply proper dates to video #
# files when importing a PSE catalog. This script gets the list of #
# all video files in a Lightroom 4.0 catalog (have not verified this #
# for any other version), looks for the correct creation date/time #
# for those files in the PSE catalog, converts the PSE UTC stamp to #
# MY LR local timezone (US/Central), properly formats the output for #
# LR's captureTime, and saves them in the LR catalog. #
# Notes: 1) I moved from PSE 10 to LR 4. Those are all I wrote this for, #
# so do not expect this to work for anything else. #
# 2) I am in the US/Central timezone, so anyone not in that timezone #
# will need to edit the script to make it work properly for you. #
# 3) This is a Python script, and I used 2.7.2 on Windows. I also #
# needed to add the pytz package to handle the timezone #
# conversion properly. #
# 4) I am not a Python expert. I wanted to learn Python, and it let #
# me accomplish what I wanted. I would appreciate any construct- #
# ive criticism with proposed improved code, but please don't ask #
# for modifications or customizations from me. I don't have the #
# time or knowledge to do so...sorry. As this was simply about #
# taking the least time to get LR functional for me, all config #
# items are hard-coded and require modification of the script... #
# 5) ALL my video files had unique names. If this is not the case #
# for you, THIS WILL NOT WORK RIGHT FOR YOU!!!! #
import sqlite3 as lite
import sys
import os, time
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from pytz import timezone
import pytz
# Your Lightroom catalog (COPIED to the local dir)
lrcon = lite.connect('./test-fresh.lrcat')
# Your Photoshop Express Organizer catalog (COPIED to the local dir)
psecon = lite.connect('./catalog.pse10db')
# Get all the video files in the LR catalog...
lrcur = lrcon.cursor()
lrcur.execute("SELECT Adobe_images.CaptureTime, AgLibraryRootFolder.absolutePath, AgLibraryFolder.pathFromRoot, AgLibraryFile.idx_filename, Adobe_images.id_local FROM Adobe_images, AgLibraryFile, AgLibraryFolder,AgLibraryRootFolder WHERE (Adobe_images.fileFormat=\"VIDEO\") AND (Adobe_images.rootFile=AgLibraryFile.id_local) AND (AgLibraryFile.folder=AgLibraryFolder.id_local) AND (AgLibraryFolder.rootFolder=AgLibraryRootFolder.id_local);")
psecur = psecon.cursor()
rows = lrcur.fetchall()
# Variable setup for stats and timezone conversion...
failcount = 0
successcount = 0
utc=pytz.utc
central=timezone('US/Central')
fmt = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" #LR captureTime format string
for row in rows:
# Attempt to fix through local modified time...but useless since I used
# PSE backup/restore a few years ago, and that wiped out all original
# timestamp information. If you are in Windows and your modified timestamp
# on the file is correct, this should work...since it worked (but didnt' fix
# my problem due to PSE's terrible version of backup/restor), I thought I
# would leave the code as inspiration for others it still may work for...
#myroot = row[1].encode('utf8')
#mypath = row[2].encode('utf8')
#myfile = row[3].encode('utf8')
#myidx = row[4]
#photo = myroot+mypath+myfile
#mytimeLR = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M",time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(photo)))
#print photo," last modified: ",mytimeLR
#updateTmp = (mytimeLR,myidx)
#lrcur.execute('UPDATE Adobe_images SET captureTime=? WHERE id_local=?',updateTmp)
#lrcon.commit()
# Get the filename (ALL MY VIDEOS HAD UNIQUE FILENAMES, SO THIS LEVEL OF MATCHING SUFFICED FOR MY PURPOSES)
myfile = row[3].encode('utf8')
# Set up the parameter for the query to the PSE catalog
matchParm = []
matchParm.append(myfile)
# Get the UTC timestamp and file name from the PSE catalog
psecur.execute('SELECT search_date_begin, filepath_search_index FROM media_table WHERE lower(filename_search_index)=lower(?)',matchParm)
pserow = psecur.fetchone() # I could do this because I KNOW all my video files have unique names
if pserow != None:
# Go through the hassle of decoding and converting the UTC time to US/Central...as well
# as from the PSE format to LR format similar but different enought to be annoying...
psedate = pserow[0].encode('utf8')
pseUTC = datetime(int(psedate[0:4]),int(psedate[4:6]),int(psedate[6:8]),int(psedate[9:11]),int(pse date[11:13]),int(psedate[13:15]),0,tzinfo=utc)
lrLocal = pseUTC.astimezone(central)
lrDate = lrLocal.strftime(fmt)
# I like seeing progress...
print myfile, ": ", pserow[0]," -> ", lrDate
# push the corrected time back into the LR catalog...the only WRITE activity so far...
updateParm = (lrDate,myidx)
lrcur.execute('UPDATE Adobe_images SET captureTime=? WHERE id_local=?',updateParm)
lrcon.commit()
successcount += 1
else:
# I got here because I added some video files to LR after I imported, but before
# I hacked out this script...
failcount += 1
print "SUMMARY: success count = ", successcount, " - fail count = ", failcount
if lrcon:
lrcon.close()
if psecon:
psecon.close()
SamAlso, since my camera does not create sidecar files and the video format does not allow for metadata directly...I have problems with date sorting. LR likes the "Creation Date"; while I understand that Windows' NTFS is one of the few operating systems that actually store a "Modified Date", I cannot understand why Adobe would choose to use a data that changes with every copy (Creation Date), rather than the original capture date (Modified Date) when it is clearly available.
My solution is to move my videos to their final destination outside of LR, run the below PowerShell script to set Creation and Accessed dates both to the Modified date for the file, and then import with LR. This is a blatant waste of time, but it seems the least of evils I'm aware of (up to the LR 4.0 I'm currently running). If anyone knows of a better solution, please point me that direction. Otherwise, I'm hoping this may help others in my boat.
If you ask "Why PowerShell when your last script was Python?"...it boiled down to being able to do the most work with the least amount of coding since Powershell has all that's necessary.
Just create the below as FixDates.ps1, then use command.exe in the root of the directory (and sub directories, since this works recursively) you want to do this for. I use this on the directory for the batch I just imported.
OH, AND OF COURSE...USE FOR INSPIRATION/UTILITY AT YOUR OWN RISK. IT WORKS FOR ME, BUT I GUARANTEE NOTHING...
$Videos = Get-ChildItem . -Recurse | where{$_.Extension -match "avi|mov|3gs"}
foreach ($Video in $Videos) {
Write-Host $Video.fullname
$Video.CreationTime = $Video.LastWriteTime
$Video.LastAccessTime = $Video.LastWriteTime
Sam -
I finally managed to get through the process of moving files and catalog from Lightroom 2.7 on a PC to Lightroom 4 on my Mac. I think I did it all correctly and all my file and previews and some tagging seems to be there. Two things are lost
1 - Most importantly, the development history on my files. I can see the edited versions in the previews, but as soon as I click on it, I can see that I lose all the changes I had made before. When I look at Development history, it just says "Imported on...." I'd love to get this back. That is a ton of processing work just lost because I switched computers.
2 - The collection names seem to have come over, but they are all empty. This is also a lot of work lost, though not as important as #1
Is there any recourse?For iTunes Help
Add artwork to songs and other items
Music and video you buy from the iTunes Store comes with its own artwork. You can add your own artwork to songs and other items in your library.
You can add many popular types of still image files, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and Photoshop. You must convert WAV files to another format before you can add artwork to them.
Album artwork for the currently playing item appears to the left of the progress bar. To view album artwork at a larger size in a separate window, click the artwork.
Hide
Add artwork to music and video
Do any of the following:
Add artwork to one item at a time:
Select an item in your iTunes library and choose File > Get Info.
Click Artwork and do one of the following:
Click Add, select an image file, and click Open.
Drag the art file to the artwork area.
To add artwork to another item, click Next or Previous.
Add the same artwork to multiple items: Select the items, choose File > Get Info, click Info, and drag an image file to the Artwork area.
Retrieve album artwork for songs in your library from the iTunes Store: Control-click the songs and choose Get Album Artwork from the pop-up menu. -
Moving LR catalog to external hard drive
I am new and in the process of learning LR. Currently all my photos are stored and developed in my laptop, however it is getting too much for its hard drive. I am thinkinng of moving the entire LR catalog to an external harddrive. Would someone please give me some advice how to do this safely and also how to point the LR to its new location when I open it from the icon.
Thanks much.Please note:
When we talk of the "catalog" in Lightroom, it means the database where Lr stores everything. It does not mean your photos.
The catalog (i.e. the database, i.e. the file with the ending < .lrcat>) does not have to be on the same drive where the photos(the image files) are.
So you can move your photos to an external hard drive and leave the catalog where it is now. Where is it? Go >Edit >Catalog Settings ? General tab. It tells you the name and location of the catalog.
Before you do any moving of your photos, please note: Lr stores - among the many other things - in its catalog also the location of each one of your image files. This has the consequence that if you move the image files in Win Explorer / Mac Finder Lr does not find the photos in the location stored in the catalog and sends you the much feared "?". How to solve this, see here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS3BC0B0A1-D48C-4271-891D-DA04EF388E29.html
So, there are two ways to move your photos to an external drive:
a) do it within Lr and Lr will keep on top of the moved files;
b) If you want to move the image files in Win Explorer / Mac Finder it is best you create one (1) parent folder that contains - in various sub-folders - all of your images. Do this in Lr.
Then - in Win Explorer / Mac Finder - you move the parent folder with all its sub-folders to the external drive. When you open Lr again it will show - in the folders panel - a question mark besides each folder. You then have to do the <Find missing folder> routine:
Locate missing folders
If a folder is moved in the operating system instead of in Lightroom, the link between the catalog and the folder breaks, and a question-mark icon appears on the folder in the Folders panel.
To restore the link, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) on the folder and choose Find Missing Folder from the context menu.
Navigate to the file path of the moved folder and click Choose. -
I can't stack photos (previously in version sets) imported via "Upgrade PSE Catalog". Why not?
I am currently using LR 3.6 on a Windows 7 OS/ HP laptop. Previously, I organized my photos using PSE 9 Organizer. When I switched to LR 3, I selected the option to upgrade my PSE Catalog to bring my photos into LR. LR imported all the photos and keywords/ratings but not my version sets or smart albums. I understand LR doesn't have version sets so I was willing to manually restack my photos but now LR is not giving me that option. Any pictures that were previously in a PSE version set are showing as unstackable (all the stack options are grayed out) even if they are located in the same folder on my hard drive. I'm having trouble finding anything on the web that addresses this issue. Any help/direction would be much appreciated as my catalog is rather cumbersome at the moment.
Thank you,
SierraIf dj_paige's suggestions don't help, check to make sure that Lightroom thinks both photos are in the same folder. When I converted from PSE 8, I had some photos in version sets in the same actual folder that LR thought were in different folders whose name differed only by case (e.g. "MyFolder" and "myfolder"). Thus, LR refused to stack the photos upon catalog conversion.
You can check this by selecting each of the suspsect photos in turn, right-clicking, and selecting Go To Folder In Library. -
Import a 2nd Photoshop Elements Catalog into Lightroom 2.1?
Okay Lightroom Gurus ...
On my old computer (Windows XP), I had several Photoshop Elements 5 catalogs, one of which was my main catalog, and the others were photos I hardly ever used. I imported the main catalog into Lightroom 2 just fine and have been running with it ever since.
Then, my old computer crapped out, I bought a new Windows Vista 64 computer, installed Lightroom 2.1, transferred the Lightroom catalog and continued along just fine.
But now, on my new computer, I want to import one of the other Photoshop Elements 5 catalogs (which still exists and still runs in PSE5 on the Vista 64 computer), but the command in Lightroom to do the import seems to have disappeared! I can't find it! Where did it go and how can I get it back? Is this a Vista 64 or Lightroom 2.1 issue (or is it me)?Roy, I am 99% certain that importing PSE 7 catalog to LR 2 is not possible at this time. The release cycles of the products did not coincide for that to happen. However you can import from PSE 6 I believe.
I feel sure that this will be addressed soon........... but don't know when. -
Using PSE 6 and Lightroom together
I have been a fan of PSE for years and have built up a catalog with over 20k items. I am working more and more in raw format and Lightroom seems to meet my requiremeents well, but, how to use PSE 6 and Lightroom together. what do people do? keep the catalogs in both applications? catalog in PSE and just edit and print in Lightroom? Are Lightroom changes then reflected back in Elements when viewing images?
thanks for help and suggestions, OllyI'd have to disagree slightly with Barbara - for me LR is primarily a RAW processor with a so-so Organising capability. Of course that's only my opinion.
Having LR and Elements working together is possible but it's really a one way street. The ability to Import an Elements Catalog is a feature of LR but it doesn't work very well. Tagging hierarchies get lost and even Date/Time info can go astray.
For me I had to start re-importing all my collection manually into LR and re-keyword them. LR is quick at applying keywords - which can also be done during the import process itself.
What you can do from LR is to open an image in Elements Editor for any creative work. LR creates a TIF version to edit in Elements and then keeps the results in it's library when you close the image.
My workflow now is to import new shots directly into LR and Keyword and Process them but I also export TIF files which I then have Elements Organise - Elements will pick up LR keywords correctly.
I just find Elements Organiser is faster and importantly allows you to select specifc images by selecting multiple AND combinations of Tags. LR only uses an OR function. I.e images that have only London AND Bob as opposed to images that have London OR Bob.
Printing I still do from Photoshop as I find it more controllable - particularly Print Sharpening.
Colin -
Import Elements catalog into Lightroom
Hi everybody,
I used PSE on my notebook for a couple of years now. As i bougth a new pc recently I want to upgrade to Photoshop CC / Lightroom. So here is my question:
Is it possible to import my elements catalog into Lightroom including my tags?
I still have got my copy of Elements 11 installed on my notebook, I´ve got a trial copy of PSE 13 on my new pc and already imported my catalog. I also installed Lightroom 5.6 on the pc.
I already looked on the internet but I only found one video which shows the solution I need but on Lightroom 3 and the function used in the video isn´t avalible in 5.6 any more.
If you need any more information please feel free to ask.
Greatings from Germany
SebastianRoy, I am 99% certain that importing PSE 7 catalog to LR 2 is not possible at this time. The release cycles of the products did not coincide for that to happen. However you can import from PSE 6 I believe.
I feel sure that this will be addressed soon........... but don't know when. -
Where to find PSE Notes in Lightroom?
Until recently, I used Photoshop Elements (PSE) to scan family pictures and save them as TIFFS. All the information I found handwritten on the back of the photos, I copied onto the "Notes" field in PSE's "Properties - General". I have done some tests and confirmed that this information is actually written in the file.
Now, I'm using Lightroom - and very happy with it - but I can't find these Notes in the same files. I've looked everywhere in Metadata, but just can't find them.
I'm assuming that information added in PSE should be visible in Lightroom, so any idea on where they could be?
Thanks for your help!Hi,
I've had a look at your sample file and the easiest way to do this will be with Exiftool . Download a copy of EXIF tool - for simplicity I suggest the OS specific package rather than the native perl version - and you will be able to use one of the following commands to move the metadata from the PSE specific location to one Lightroom can access.
The following commands have some common elements:
-P to preserve the current dates/times on your image files
-r to process all matching files in the current directory and all of its sub-directories
-overwrite_original_in_place to modify the existing file without creating a backup
*.tif to process all tif files, and combined with the -r this will match tif files in the current and sub-directories
Feel free to remove any of those arguments or change the target (*.tif) file specifier to something that better reflects your environment.
You only need to run one of the following commands. I've included these two options depending upon which destination field seems most appropriate for your catalog. For these commands to work you will need to use the PSE browser to write all metadata to file first. EXIF tool only works with the metadata in the file and can't access your PSE catalog directly.
exiftool -P -r -overwrite_original_in_place "-XMP-album:Notes>IPTC:Caption-Abstract" *.tif
The command above copies the Notes information into the Caption field visible in most of the Lightroom metadata tagsets.
exiftool -P -r -overwrite_original_in_place "-XMP-album:Notes>IPTC:SpecialInstructions" *.tif
The command above copies the Notes information into the Instructions field visible in the Lightroom IPTC and All metadata tagsets.
I had thought about adding this to the plugin but given it is a fairly uncommon requirement it will probably just confuse people. So I've changed my mind on that front.
Let me know if you have any troubles with following the instructions above.
Matt -
How do you move one (1) Photo Folder from one Catalog to another Catalog in Lightroom 5?
I want to move one (1) Photo Folder from one Catalog to another Catalog in Lightroom 5 and my laptop (no external hard drive involved). I have already started the editing process in Catalog #1, but due to the size of the Catalog #1, I want to move the current job and future work to a new Catalog.
Currently the backup feature takes an hour to complete. There are also significant delays during large image edits. So I am thinking, that by moving over to a smaller Catalog, Lightroom will work faster.Hello ... and thanks for your response. But I have discovered a couple problems. And I am sure it is "operator error"
I used your method #1. The first window that popped up stated that it was making a temporary copy of the catalog. This took about 20 minutes.
Next, the window showed thumbnail photos on the right and a list of folders in my catalog on the left. The catalog contains folders stored on my LapTop, as well as my external hard drive.
There appeared to be a distinctive difference between those photo folders stored on the external hard drive and those on my LapTop. The folders on the external drive were named as I have all my folders named: Date_CustomName. The folders stored on my LapTop were named as: Lightroom_5 Backup_Date_CustomName or some such combination and my memory is foggy on the actual use of underscore, slash marks, dashes, etc.
I searched the list closely, and the Folders without a reference to "Lightroom Backup" were not showing.
So as a test, I "added" to the new Catalog one folder from the external hard drive and two from the LapTop. After the transfer, the new Catalog had accurately named my external hard drive and the folder within in and the photos and their edits transferred accurately. The other two folders were not named but listed shown in the library module as grey boxes as images with indications of editing. But when I clicked on it, there was a notation that popped up that the file could not be found.
Any ideas?
I am going to create a second new catalog and try your option #2 now.
Thanks
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This is weird. I apply Unsharp Mask to a clip and adjust it the way I like it, but after I've rendered it the image goes back to looking like it did before. If I then turn off Unsharp Mask, it changes back to looking like my adjustments. Has anyone e