Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Tina... I maintain only 1 catalog... just in case anyone is trying to copy my actions.... If you keep more than 1 current catalog, stop reading, and do not do anything I am doing without thinking it through first...... I went back in and deleted all but the last 3 catalogs dupes, just in case..... ( they went back to LR2 versions, I can't imagine those are worth anything....) And ditto on the backups..... Got back about 60GB for my trouble, and eliminated a bunch of garbage...... Not bad for a few minutes work. What I find most interesting is that in LR CC 2015, there is a new catalog protocol. If I ever STOP paying my $10 a month, and I try to go back to LR4 ( I skipped V5), there is no catalog info of having imported the subsequent images. It would mean re-importing; re-setting all the crops, adjustments in exposure etc, ; etc.... A LOT of work. I knew there was a catch in moving forward to the CC versions..... now I know ... It appears, Adobe owns me. I do not know if the non-CC version of LR, LRV6, is capable to reading those catalogs..... and maintaining all the work done in CC..... this is a possible out.... Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net Frank, I save the two most recent backups and delete the rest. Tina On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > While doing some computer backup work, I discovered that LR catalogs > and backups are in a specific folder. > > Not a surprise. > > What was a surprise was that every time you close the program or ask > LR to backup your catalog, > > it places a new and complete copy of the entire catalog in your > intended place. > > But it does NOT erase the old copy. So after a period of time, you > end up with a whole bunch of old catalogs. > > > > Now the question is. are these old catalogs of any use or can they be > erased without a problem? > > > > I do realize the last one maybe has some value as a backup, but after > a whole bunch of these, some of which may be more than a year old, you > wonder if the storage space could be recovered. Thus my question... >