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catalog merge how to choose main catalog

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guido.coza

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Hi All
I had to start one catalog from a back-up. this catalog somehow has no face recognition. The original catalog of this back-up, was on a crashed exHD with all/most (70k+ files)of the pics. The default catalog( if I open LR on laptop with no exHD attahed), is still on the laptop but has hardly (300)pictures in it. However here the "peoples view" is working. How do I merge the two so that the laptop catalog becomes the default/main catalog
Please someone help as I do not want to do a mess of this
Txs in advance

Guido
 
What do you exactly mean with "this catalog has no face recognition"?
Does the face recognition option not work?
Or are no faces taged with names? In this case maybe it's an old backup (before you tagged the faces)
I think it's best to figure this out first before merging catalogs (what is quire easy b.t.w.)
 
Hi Roelof thank you for your reply If I have the catalog open from a old backup, newly added faces, Portraits) or not recognised as faces (No new faces detected)
If i import the same pics in the LR catalog on the laptop all faces are instantly detected as such!
My worry is now, that idf I merge the two catalogs that than face recognition is lost , or all the picture data is lost in the new one!??
 
Face Detection is something that is set per catalog. Are you sure that in the catalog that doesn't detect faces you simply have not disabled face detection? Catalog Settings - Metadata - Automatically detect faces in all photos.
 
Hello Johan
I checked it and switched it off and on again, no change!!! the strange thing is it did detect faces before. I try to attach a screen shot. I do not know what this could be??? on the original opening of the catalog it initiated the face detection automatically. Pictures/files i added afterwards seem to get completly ignored
 
This is probably a daft question, but when you click on the identity plate in the upper left of the LR screen, do you have Face Detection paused?
 
hello Hal
No it is not! I actually paused it shut down LR, opened it and switched it on again, sadly no change.
the most confusing dfor me is, when i opened this catalog from the backup for the first time, LR went thru all the faces and did a check! pictures which where added afterwards are completely ignored!!
 
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