While consolidating my cataloges into a single catalogue, I encountered an "Unknown Error", which stopped the import.
File > Import from another Catalogue.
After about 2 days of investigation and fixes, these are my findings:
Issues were from catalogue entries in 2022 and 2023.
Possible causes incluce:
- stacked images (I unstacked them all)
- xxx.dng images created when using denoise, either Adobe or DXO (I removed all .dng images from my catalogues, but left them on disk so I could import them later)
- xxx.tif images (these may not be an issue, removed them as with the .dng images just in case)
Other possible suspects:
- previews (remove all previews Library > Previews > Disgard xxx previews)
After doing all this I managed to import all my older cataloges into a new consolidated catalogue.
One way to identify what is causing the issue by splitting your problem catalogues into smaller catalogues.
Another solution is to just keep importing until you get the error (sometimes half the catalogue will import), then untick the rest, and import folder by folder until only the problem folders remain.
When you know the problem folder, follow the above steps to 'fix' the problem folders and then import them.
Hope this helps. It's tedious but at least it fixes the issue.
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