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The file is a container whereas the image is the content inside the container. They are 2 different objects and as such have with their own metadata.
The file is is a computer thing. It's creation date is set by the OS when this object is created, in your case when you did the export. (Note that...
For RAW files, this is normal. White Balance is a development setting. It has been applied by your camera when generating the jpeg image from the captured RAW data. But LrC does now nothing about the WB setting on your camera and apply an estimated WB when it generates the image from the RAW...
With 2500 photos, I think the 2GB is the size of the catalog folder, not the size of the catalog itself. The catalog folder contains not only the catalog itself (the .lrcat file) but also some folders like the "<Catalog name> Previews.lrdata" folder wich is in fact a cache of the previews shown...
It's not arbitrary. Windows assigne the first available letter in alphabetic order, unles a letter has been assigned manually (as you describe).
Instead of a letter, you can also assign a fix path (ie a folder). Clic"Add" instead of "Change" and select an empty NTFS folder. Such a fix path will...
Since associated keywords are stored in the catalog (a database), I doubt than the lost has been caused by the restore of the catalog.
I would suggest to open the old backup catalog and check if the associated keywords are there. I strongly suspect they're not. You don't need to have the...
I don't understand why you need a second copy of the RAW files registered in your catalog. In case of disk failure, you can always have LrC see the restored RAW files wherever they are. If the photo path is not exactly the same as before (say the drive letter has changed), you just need in LrC...
"Enter keywords" as it indicates, shows the keywords you've explicitly entered, whereas "Keywords & Containing Keywords", as it indicates, also shows all the keyyword contained in the image. This seems logical to me.
1:1 previews take a lot of space, especially now than the the images generated by the cuurent camera are bigger than 10 years ago.
In the Catalog Settings, verify than LrC is set to remove 1:1 preview when unused :
What I do is import using the embedded preview (it's faster), then let LrC...
For the current version (LrC 11), the file names (current as well as the original if different) are stored in the table AgLibraryFile. In each record, there is a link to the folder name wich is stored in the table AgLibraryFolder.
Yes you can... but as soon as you'll view photos in LrC, LrC will regenerate the previews for these photos and therefore this folder will grow again. However, you won't have preview for the old photos until you view them. This might lead to a folder smaller than before.
Do you generate 1:1...
Instead of using a drive letter, you can also mount your drive in a folder, then your drive path will never change. I use to have a root folder called Ext in which I have a folder per external drive, USB key, etc. I find having a meningful folder name instead of a letter easier to manage.
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