Catalog alteration

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
December 25, 2024
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First of all, excuse me for maybe not describing my questiona well enough in English. I do my best.

I have my recent RAW files on PC. (Say the last 3 years) The old ones I store in the cloud and harddisks to give space on my PC. So I do not use the catalog anymore when it comes to the older years.

But still those data remain in the catalog.

And that catalog gets bigger and bigger (it seems) till a point where I also have to start a new catalog. But than I loose the data from the current years.

Is there a way to remove the old years from the catalog but keep the years that are still on the PC?

Thank you.

Windows

hansk88440039Author

Participant

Is there anyone who can answer my actual question please? Thank you.

hansk88440039Author

Participant

The way I store my RAW files for 20 years now, works fine for me. All I want is to reduce the size of my catalog which is now 110 GB on my internal drive. Probably with partly data that I never use anymore. How do I do that? Thanks.

dj_paige

Legend

You could easily remove these photos from your LrC catalog. But you should really address the root cause rather than ignore the root cause — the root cause is you don't have enough space, and that is easily fixed, as a I have explained above, by moving the older photos to a different drive while keeping them in LrC.

hansk88440039Author

Participant

"You could easily remove these photos from your LrC catalog"

How can I do this? This was my initial question and I don't know how to do this. Thank you.

dj_paige

Legend

Do not start new catalogs. Move the photos to an external HD or network drive while keeping the photos in the catalog. (Do not store LrC photos in "the cloud" unless it is the Adobe Cloud)

This explains how to do what you want: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/move-photos-another-hard-drive-leaving-catalog/

And this is also helpful: new photos should be imported to one of the external hard drives or network drives. Do NOT put new photos on the internal drive.

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