Export a Collection new catalog WITHOUT copy/move the files?
Hello everyone. I use LR 5.5 on Windows 8.1 and currently having all my images in one catalog. My goal is to separate my images in 3 catalogues separate, based on the object WITHOUT moving/copying files to the location of the existing file structure.
I organized all the images in 3 different collections in the catalog. When you select the images in a collection and using the function «Export as catalog...» ", LR still wants to copy the images to the folder that contains the new catalog. As part of my work, I voluntarily my structure of files organized into a structure of YYYY-MM-DD files on several disks. I have no desire to move away from this structure. Instead, I just want LR to create a new database of catalogue with all the metadata associated with the images that I export... including the current location of the files.
Is - it possible and, if so, how do I remove? I tried to go on the road to simply duplicate the file *.lrcat a different name and then by deleting items in some catalogs, but which is problematic with the index errors, etc. I'd rather widely the approach 'additive' anyway to try to keep things as clean as possible with little effort.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
K
When you run the file > export as catalog command, there is an option to include the negatives. Make sure that it is not selected.
However, fragmenting the control of your picture collection is a recipe for confusion and I advise you don't not to go forward. With your folder structure, what makes sense, you'll find that each disk a folder will be controlled by catalog object, the next catalog B, in another folder a few photos will be in the catalog and some in the C catalog because you pulled a mixture in one day, and maybe some pictures will get in both catalogs with different settings and metadata (guess that is 'just'). Use metadata to organize photos, not to break your catalog.
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