Merging Individual Lightroom Catalogs into a “Master” Catalog
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2015
- In this Episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne will demonstrates how to combine individual Lightroom catalogs into a single, “Master” Lightroom catalog to simplify a photographers workflow and enable multi-shoot searching.
Most fluent Adobe teacher. Minimal. Precise. Great demeanour. Thanks....
I took me months to understand what you clearly explain in 10 minutes, thank you!
The delivery and quality of the information is perfect, a shining example of accuracy, clarity and brevity wrapped in natural charm. It would be a great assistance if Adobe produced a single page Fact Sheet with the key actions to make following the advice even easier.
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I just made the move from PC to Mac and this tutorial was a tremendous help in understanding what I needed to do in order to move my catalog and images without losing my LR edits!
I do wish, that Julieanne had handled the presets as mentioned in this video, but no problem, I'll take it from here.
Thanks for the comprehensive and concise tutorial!
This made so many things so much easier! Finally! Besides that, helps to save the catalog in a dropbox folder. Free's you from the need of a backup.
Some time ago I mistaken deleted many photos from my only Catalog as I only ever used one catolog, I recently discovered those same photos on an old external drive i forgot about and created a second catalog just for those, having watched this video I can now place them where they used to live, but in my case will keep the second catalog as somewhere to work on the old drive, finding this video could not have come at a better time for me, well thought out, extremely well presented and very very helpful, thank you so much
Thank you, Julieanne, you are the "go to" person for anything Lightroom. I thoroughly enjoyed your video. It was clear and concise. Keep up the terrific work you do for the photography community!
Great tutorial for merging Lightroom catalogs. Very easy to follow along.
This was super helpful and clear. Thank you
Super helpful. Thank you Julieanne - my LR organization is a mess (wish my Library skills were as good as my Develop skills)
Key points:
3:02 - Easiest way to make Master Catalog
4:07 - Import from Catalog
3:39 - File Handling
8:01 - Copy photos to a new location
I am creating a new photography website and needed to update my portfolio selecting various images from across my 45 hard drives!
Thanks for explaining this clearly Julieanne, I'm just wondering how to import collections or just a few images from a catalog of 10,000 images?
Wow, very nice tutorial, thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you and yes......extremely clear.
Thanks Julieanne. Another great Lightroom tutorial. Perfect timing and extremely helpful.
Thank you. Very helpful.
Great tutorial! Thanks.
Very Good, thank You!
I love your tutorials, but here I'm a little confused about the "merging catalogs." Do I have to create this?
That does answer my question, BUT. My import dialog shows a grayed out Import button and a grayed out preview area and grayed out "check all" etc, even though the import all or an individual folder is showing, neither will accept a checkmark. Basically, almost all the functions in the dialog are inactive.
Halp! I am trying to import my major summer photo trip from my external drive (J:) to my desktop computer where the main working Catalog is located and a file location on a major external RAID working drive (G:). I go into my working catalog on the desktop computer to do the Import From Another Catalog (J:) and designate that the files will be stored on my primary external working drive (G:).
Hi Julieanne! Do you know if I revert to a previous backup version of a catalog, will it leave the other catalogs unaffected?
I am trying to restore some mess that happened with Lightroom 2 years ago, but I want to keep all the edits and tags that I made after these two years. I thought to move all the photos of the last 2 years into a new catalog (the way you explain here), and then backup the main catalog. Thank you so much!
The question was asked, and I want to repeat it: do you create the MergingMultiple Catalogues folder first?How it goes that there are folders already? Did you copy them to this folder? Thank you for help
Reading this in 2022 and thanks!
I need some help... I tried to open my catalog from my portable drive on another computer and although I think it opened with all of the photos I cannot see the folder structure that I had set up. Is there a way to sync ? The external drive has all of my folders and subfolders and one catalog so Im pretty sure I'm only dealing with one catalog here but its showing dated folders back in lightroom and not all the nice neat descriptions and names of the folders and subfolders I gave everything
hey guys, it's about Lightroom 3.3 !! check your version before viewing this post !
Good vid! Any idea why I get the error msg "Can not import from this catalog at this time. The catalog is either in use by another copy of Lightroom or was closed improperly. If it was closed improperly, please consider doing an integrity check when opening." ?
I can open the catalog fine, but I dont want to just open it - i want to import it to my master catalog..
Thanks in advance for any help
Hi, Juileanne
I hope you and yours are well. I was hoping this video might have been more useful to me. I'd been using a NAS device for storing my images and copied everything to a single large drive when I moved countries recently, so that I'd have access to my work whilst my NAS device was en-route via sea-freight to my new location. Now I have my NAS device again, I want to merge the collections so that my NAS reflects all the new work I've done since my move, plus any new edits to the work that pre-dated the move. When I try to copy the files from the HD to the NAS I get a message saying there's already a folder of that name, and it won't allow me to go further. Any advice would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Luke
Hi Julieanne, just what I was looking for. I'm switching over to Mac from PC and I have about 10 years of images. From the get go I've create many catalogs that I want to merge into a master catalog in preperation for the move to Mac. I don't like too have a separate catalog for every shoot or occasion. Every time I upgrade my PC or "sometimes" every year or so I create a new catalog. I always put my catalogs on a new seperate internal and external HD as backups.
What I've done before watching your video is purchased a new external HD and dragged and dropped all the catalogs into the new hard drive naming it "Master Catalog". Because I've made so many multiple and duplicate catalogs I wanted to make sure that that I got all my catalogs on a separate dedicated HD so I copied all my "Catalogs" files up again onto my new external HD including duplicates. You mentioned in your video that it may be more difficult for
I merged two lightroom catalogs but now my photos do not show up in the main catalog. When I go to import photos from the folder the photos show up as grayed out but they don't show up in my folders panel.
Thanks for the video. I am a newbie in Lightroom and I am hoping someone can help me before I delete and start all over again! I have followed the all the instructions but now I have multiple copies of each photo, and my edits are either on the original photo, or copy 1 or even copy 7! Its all over the place! How can I remove the copies making sure I keep the photo with the edits?! Many thanks!
at 7:25 why do say you like to have a back up? its because you like it or because its not safe to do this?
I have one catalog with files over multiple disks and has become possibly corrupted so want to create a new catalog with importing from the possibly corrupt catalog (it will not make a backup.) but the import wants me to then individually select in the individual hard drive folders where the images exist. Something does not seem right as this should go simply shouldn't it?
Very helpful video. Thanks. Would be very helpful if it was better resolution.
Wouldn't having all one's images in a single catalog slow it down? I would like to create a merged master catalog for the ability to search all my images at once, but maintain multiple smaller ones. I assume the master updates every time I update one of the sub-catalogs, so that I have the best of both worlds. Am I wrong?
For anyone else who thought the point was to have a master catalog that syncs with individual smaller ones, no that doesn’t work. I will be using Bridge to search all images, while maintaining separate catalogs for various categories to keep the size, and thus the speed, of Lightroom manageable.
i have a single lightroom catalogue with over 30k images spread over 100s of folders; how do i break it up into smaller catalogues?
You can find it here, in Adobe's official support page. Your question is answered under the "Export a Catalog" section.
helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/create-catalogs.html#Exportacatalog
Hope this helps!
Still helpful in 2021
Wow your computer is so much faster than mine. I watched the full video and it is still importing one catalog. Not even half finished.
Thank you so much for this
Will a 'Master' catalogue slow down your computer? if so has do you optimise?
......and using an old monitor too?....why?
Excellent tutorial.
Thank you
Because there's no difference in the process from then till current. Why record the same thing?
wait... published in 2015 yet you're using lightroom 3?? huh?