Kirby Krieger
Active Member
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2017
- Messages
- 148
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 8.0 [ 1193777 ]
- Operating System
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
I screwed up. I moved a large Catalog to a new drive, launched Lightroom by double-clicking the Catalog file on that drive, and assumed that LR would now default to this Catalog. Which is does when you launch Lightroom via the Lightroom program. I overlooked that I launch Lightroom from LaunchBar, and that that shortcut calls not the Lightroom program but rather calls the Catalog file — the now old, retired one.
So I have edits from the last three days in each Catalog. Furthermore, in trouble-shooting I turned "Write XMP to files" back on.
I have accounted for the different number of Photos in the two Catalogs (11 Photos in total). I can re-create the work I remember doing, but I did some tagging and other database work that I won't recall (and I don't know without looking which Catalog holds which changes). Since I can open only one Catalog at a time, it is cumbersome to compare the two.
The total number of Photos I've edited in the last five days is about 500, which includes about 400 Photos that are almost all simply imported. I have about 100 Photos that have changes to metadata and edits post-import. There are probably two dozen Photos that have been edited in PSCC.
Is there any good way — or barring that, a rational way — to proceed? My goal is to create one up-to-date Catalog on the new drive. I will ensure that I don't use the old Catalog(s) (I'd saved it as a backup) by renaming them (which I should have done right away).
TY.
So I have edits from the last three days in each Catalog. Furthermore, in trouble-shooting I turned "Write XMP to files" back on.
I have accounted for the different number of Photos in the two Catalogs (11 Photos in total). I can re-create the work I remember doing, but I did some tagging and other database work that I won't recall (and I don't know without looking which Catalog holds which changes). Since I can open only one Catalog at a time, it is cumbersome to compare the two.
The total number of Photos I've edited in the last five days is about 500, which includes about 400 Photos that are almost all simply imported. I have about 100 Photos that have changes to metadata and edits post-import. There are probably two dozen Photos that have been edited in PSCC.
Is there any good way — or barring that, a rational way — to proceed? My goal is to create one up-to-date Catalog on the new drive. I will ensure that I don't use the old Catalog(s) (I'd saved it as a backup) by renaming them (which I should have done right away).
TY.