changes not showing after import from another catalog

[guido.coza]

Hi All
I seem not to be winning!
I spend days on my laptop assigning names to faces in the "people" tab.
I exported the catalog onto a external drive, imported from this catalog and none of the new names I added on the laptop show up in my master catalog!! Am I missing something??

 

[Tony Jay]

Could be - you say that you "imported from this catalog".
That is not the same as importing the catalog.

Perhaps it is just your choice of words describing your actions but in the first scenario importing images will not necessarily result in catalog metadata coming along for the ride.
Actually importing the catalog will bring all the metadata with into your master catalog.

Tony Jay

 

[guido.coza]

Hi Tony Jay
On the laptop i chose "export as catalog"
On the iMac i chose "import from another catalog" pointed to the catalog location, I even called it "4iMac 17feb" not to make a mistake and imported. I'm sitting now again the last 5 hours on the imac and still don't have the same people identified as I have on the laptop right next to me!!??

 

[Tony Jay]

OK guido as few checkpoints:
1. Those images from the laptop - were they previously in the Master catalog on the iMAc?
2. If they were previously in the Master catalog then what options did you use when importing the catalog?

Tony Jay