New Lightroom catalog with old publishing service

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 2, 2017
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Happy New Year!

Each year I like to start a new catalog. One thing I hate is that the publishing services all need to be recreated in the new catalog.

Is there a way to have a new, empty catalog, but retain all the 'settings' of the current catalog (Publishing Services (with logins), presets, development settings, keywords..... )

Thank you

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Correct answer dj_paige

This is just one of a bazillion reasons why you should use one catalog. As far as I know, you have to re-create the Publish Service settings in each and every catalog.

johnrellis

Legend

I think you can set up a new empty "template" catalog with all your settings, and you copy that template catalog to make a new one. See this video: Merging Lightroom Catalogs « Julieanne Kost's Blog

But I agree with dj_paige -- it's best to avoid multiple catalogs in most situations.

kcossaboAuthor

Known Participant

Thank you, do you run into an issue with the size of the catalog?

dj_paige

Legend

Size of catalog is almost never an issue. In fact, of all the reading I have done in this and other forums, I have never yet seen a problem that was caused by the SIZE of the catalog file with one exception: the larger the catalog file, the longer it takes to back up (but you can do this overnight). There are people in this forum with catalogs of over 500,000 images without a problem.

dj_paigeCorrect answer

Legend

This is just one of a bazillion reasons why you should use one catalog. As far as I know, you have to re-create the Publish Service settings in each and every catalog.

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