lbeck
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- May 21, 2015
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- Hillsborough, NC
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- Intermediate
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- 6.x
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- 6.0 (1014445)
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- Windows 10
I'll say up front that I'm a photo hoarder. But I'm trying to reform.
My current catalog has more than 42K photos. Using an app "Duplicate Photo Cleaner" I find that more than 10K are marked as duplicates. This is partially because I have been saving both JPG and NEF versions of the same pic, and partially because the app chooses very similar photos as duplicates based on EXIF data and some other algorithms. I suspect that I can trim my catalog by as much as 80% by eliminating duplicates and deleting non-duplicates that simply aren't worth saving.
I would like to preserve my bloated catalog until my project is complete in case I do something terrible and want to reverse part of what I change.
I have several large HDDs. The first thing that I want to see is the size needed if I want to mirror my existing catalog. How do you find that? I have Victoria's Lr6 book and still can't find how to determine the HDD size needed to mirror my existing catalog and associated files (pictures and metadata).
Once I select a HDD for the mirror I'll likely choose "Self-Contained Catalog" described on page 493 of the book.
Any advice or warnings is appreciated. I especially need to determine the size of my existing catalog package that I want to mirror.
My current catalog has more than 42K photos. Using an app "Duplicate Photo Cleaner" I find that more than 10K are marked as duplicates. This is partially because I have been saving both JPG and NEF versions of the same pic, and partially because the app chooses very similar photos as duplicates based on EXIF data and some other algorithms. I suspect that I can trim my catalog by as much as 80% by eliminating duplicates and deleting non-duplicates that simply aren't worth saving.
I would like to preserve my bloated catalog until my project is complete in case I do something terrible and want to reverse part of what I change.
I have several large HDDs. The first thing that I want to see is the size needed if I want to mirror my existing catalog. How do you find that? I have Victoria's Lr6 book and still can't find how to determine the HDD size needed to mirror my existing catalog and associated files (pictures and metadata).
Once I select a HDD for the mirror I'll likely choose "Self-Contained Catalog" described on page 493 of the book.
Any advice or warnings is appreciated. I especially need to determine the size of my existing catalog package that I want to mirror.