Reset the catalog but keeping the image settings

Hello

I have a very messy - catalog images are displaced, some files missing some photos and so on. I want to reset my catalog, but I don't want to lose the settings that I did for my photos. Does anyone know a way to do this - back up files that adjusts images so I can reset the entire catalog and then apply the settings to my images again.

Thank you, marten

The way to do is to organize your photos in Lightroom. After all, it is designed for you to use it as an organizing tool.

If you want to move them to a different location, you drag them to the appropriate inside Lightroom folder.

If a picture is missing, you import it into Lightroom (or use synchronize folder) Tip: in the future, you must adopt the policy of importing ALL of your photos in Lightroom (Yes, I said IT), not just some of them and that this won't happen in the future.

In this way, you don't lose your settings, and you have nothing to do with photos that are well organized.

As an alternative, you can organize by keywords and then not only gives you the benefits of keywords on the Organization of the file, but then no picture can also be in the correct folder.

Like other number two, you could have Lightroom write metadata to files and then import them into a new catalog. You lose collections, chimneys, virtual copies and pick up flags (and a few other things I don't remember now), but your changes will appear in the new catalogue.

No matter what you do, you should make a backup of your catalog file before you start this process. Actually, you to do regular, automated backups of your catalog files without worrying about what you do, no excuses.

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