Crazy Legs
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- Jul 6, 2011
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- Lightroom Experience
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Operating System: Mac OS 10.13.2
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): Classic 7.1
Apologies in advance for size of thread - I have used screenshots as sometimes its easier to see than explain in words!
I'm a long time LR user and fairly happy with the editing side of things but I have never really got to grips with the catalog and backup 'stuff'
It seems that at some point I have messed up my back-up location and I want to get it back to how it should be. I did try to sort this myself once quite a while ago and found myself with no images in LR so I used Time machine and got it back to my messed up system.
From what I can workout I now backup LR into what was once an individual backup!? Specifically everything is going into one folder: '2016-11-28 1641'
This is my dialogue box when I close LR:
This is my Lightroom folder:
Then within backups:
And then within '2016-11-28 1641'
Within this folder Lightroom Catalog-3-2 is my catalog.
Everything that is in '2016-11-28 1641' should I believe be in the Lightroom folder. I can't seem to get my head around how I can clean this mess up so that LR knows where everything is and am I safe to just delete 'Lightroom Catalog-3.Ircat' and 'Lightroom Catalog.Ircat'? And what other folders/files can I safely delete?
I'd be most grateful for an explanation as to how I can sort this out - explained very simply please!!
Thanks in anticipation
Andy
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): Classic 7.1
Apologies in advance for size of thread - I have used screenshots as sometimes its easier to see than explain in words!
I'm a long time LR user and fairly happy with the editing side of things but I have never really got to grips with the catalog and backup 'stuff'
It seems that at some point I have messed up my back-up location and I want to get it back to how it should be. I did try to sort this myself once quite a while ago and found myself with no images in LR so I used Time machine and got it back to my messed up system.
From what I can workout I now backup LR into what was once an individual backup!? Specifically everything is going into one folder: '2016-11-28 1641'
This is my dialogue box when I close LR:
This is my Lightroom folder:
Then within backups:
And then within '2016-11-28 1641'
Within this folder Lightroom Catalog-3-2 is my catalog.
Everything that is in '2016-11-28 1641' should I believe be in the Lightroom folder. I can't seem to get my head around how I can clean this mess up so that LR knows where everything is and am I safe to just delete 'Lightroom Catalog-3.Ircat' and 'Lightroom Catalog.Ircat'? And what other folders/files can I safely delete?
I'd be most grateful for an explanation as to how I can sort this out - explained very simply please!!
Thanks in anticipation
Andy