Some people don't understand why others have multiple catalogs, but I have over 6 TB of files spanning 6 years. Not much compared to some people but it's giving me fits... So yeah, I may have started the process on a wrong foot a few years ago and that's part of what I am trying to correct now. I have 7 different catalogs. I want to combine them to about three maybe four. I want to limit one Catalog to strictly Landscape photos only. These photos span back from 2012 to the present. The landscape photos are currently in four different catalogs that were partially segregated by year. Some of this work is scattered between the computer's hard drive and two external hard drives. Once I get all of the work situated in one catalog, I am going to install a new external hard drive and move all of the Landscape folders over to one drive. I am limited in USB ports, so I do not want to install the new hard drive until I have reconfigured all of the Catalogs. OK ... that is the back story.... This is the process I took, which is from an Adobe help section here Photoshop Lightroom catalog FAQ Here are the steps I took.. After the steps, I'll explain what happened. To combine or merge catalogs — or to move photos from one catalog to another — you import one catalog into the other. Choose File > Open Catalog and select the catalog that you want to be the master, or primary, catalog (the one you want to add to). Choose File > Import From Another Catalog and navigate to the catalog that contains the photos you want to add from. Then, click Open (Windows) ..... I am using windows 10...... In the Import From Catalog dialog box, do the following: Under Catalog Contents, select the folders that contain the photos you want to import. THIS IS WHERE I STARTED HAVING PROBLEMS I get this little small box with the appearance of my Folder structure. I wanted to Check just the primary master Folder that was in one external hard drive. There was another hard drive listed below with NON-Landscape Photos After the transfer files/folders from both external hard drives were moved - not moved, but copied to the "recieving" drive. But the duplication was not complete... some Folders seemed to 'copy over' and many others did not. When I tried the process again, I attempted to check the boxes, but they would not 'check'... Now I am not sure what to do.. can I safely delete the "copied" folders and start again, or are both "locations" tied to each other and if I delete one, they both go? The problem is that the COMBINE / MOVE was not actually an incomplete copy. Sorry about the descriptive message, but it's the only way I know to illustrate what happened. _____________________continuation of the Adobe instructions: Specify how you want to handle new and existing photos. For more information on these options, see Import photos from a different Lightroom catalog. Click Import. Repeat steps 1 – 4 for additional catalogs or photos that you want to add to the open one.
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