acpoynts
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Hi All,
So after a number of years of usage, I've just notice a large mistake in my workflow which i would like to correct;
I have copied the images over the years rather than added to the catalogue. So I now have duplicate images for over 40K images which are taking significant amount of disk space about 1TB (includes TIFF files modified from PS and why it seems to be so large). Anyhow rather than continue to waste disk space and actually recover a vast amount of it. As my total photo collection not in LR is approximately 147K.
I would like to keep those which have been edited or have caption comments approximate about 2K. I would rather not like to tinker with the current catalogue (ie delete anything) and provide a back just in case i make a mistake, with view to deleting at some point in the future including the LR photo copies, once i'm happy with the new version.
I thought of doing the following.
Does this sound the best way, or can anyone suggest a better alternative?
Many thanks
Andrew
So after a number of years of usage, I've just notice a large mistake in my workflow which i would like to correct;
I have copied the images over the years rather than added to the catalogue. So I now have duplicate images for over 40K images which are taking significant amount of disk space about 1TB (includes TIFF files modified from PS and why it seems to be so large). Anyhow rather than continue to waste disk space and actually recover a vast amount of it. As my total photo collection not in LR is approximately 147K.
I would like to keep those which have been edited or have caption comments approximate about 2K. I would rather not like to tinker with the current catalogue (ie delete anything) and provide a back just in case i make a mistake, with view to deleting at some point in the future including the LR photo copies, once i'm happy with the new version.
I thought of doing the following.
- Export and create a new catalogue of only the images I have edited, have keywords (not so many), by selecting those via the attribute filter.
- Export any smart collections (assuming it allows me not to import any duplicates)
- over time 'add' images back into the collection from the folder structures i already have for all my images (not in lightroom)
Does this sound the best way, or can anyone suggest a better alternative?
Many thanks
Andrew