[Leica] "Old" LR Catalogs

[Frank Filippone]

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...
>