"Catalogue Contents" Panel when Importing from another catalogue is too small and not very useful.

Question

When importing photos from another catalogue, one is given a large panel on the left of the screen titled "catalogue contents". Years ago, the width of that panel might have been sufficient to completely read the directory. Today that is impossible. Directories are nested much deeper in Windows than before. There is no horizontal scrolling bar on that panel and I cannot find a way to expand the width of that panel. Importing from another directory should be easier.

Lightroom Classic 13.1

Windows 11 Home 64 bit

richardplondon · Accepted Answer

I wold probably use a different method to achieve selective transfer of photos between Catalogs. That would be, to first highlight in the 'donor' catalog all the photos concerned, selecting them by whatever means. Then use Export as Catalog (to a new temporary intermediate Catalog) including only these highlighted images. This leaves the same images still highlighted inside the 'donor' catalog in case you wanted to bulk remove them, or otherwise mark them with a keyword, as part of your process. Then the new intermediate Catalog can be entirely merged into the 'recipient' Catalog using Import from Another Catalog. Being pre-filtered, this merge will not need any selectivity. Then the intermediate Catalog can be deleted.

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