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Am I stating it correctly that the edits will stay in place when I remove the folder from the catalog? Not deleting, just removing will keep all the edits?

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Holy C... Thank you for the information. I swear, having been a beta tester since the first ever Lightroom way back in the days, there are still things that I don't grasp. I know I once lost a folder with 60.000 images, without really knowing what happened, I am sure it was one of those blank moments of Lightroom. Thanks, so you are sure that if I export into a new catalog it will keep the edits... ?
 
All edits are in the catalog. If you're writing XMP sidecar files for raw images, most of the information will be there as well.
If you're going to export a selected group of images along with their edits to a separate catalog, you may want to think about just keeping them in your current catalog. You're not going to save any space splitting the catalog into two.
 
[QUOTE You're not going to save any space splitting the catalog into two.[/QUOTE]

Thanks Dave, Will just do that. It 's better to have one catalog (Have some 400.000 images in it). Culling big time anyway, but I wanted to make sure I kept the edits... Thanks for your help. I can take it from here! You rock...
 
If you write your Metadata to disk Ctrl S or CMD in LR you can then remove folders from LR but save changes to disk first this will generate Sidecars with your edits to the pictures.
you can check this by revealing folder and looking for the xmp files might need to change settings to show hidden files first to see them.
 
I would consider Daves suggestion. It seems to me that if your edits are important enough to keep then keeping them in an archive catalog makes better sense than just keeping the files with any develop metadata. This is a strategy that is explained by Peter Krogh in his excellent multi-media ebook multi-catalog-workflow-for-lightroom-6.

Just my 2 cents.

-louie
 
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