Reducing catalog size

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Paddy Gormley

• November 19, 2020 07:20

Dear Margaret

 

Many thanks for your helpful response.  I certainly plan to set up smaller, single purpose catalogues in future.  

 

For now, I’m trying to create two catalogues:  on on my backup disk and one on my MacBook Pro.  

 

It started well.  I’ve successfully backed up all my raw files and the catalogue directory on my backup disk.  Then in Luminar, I opened the catalogue on the backup disk.  Since it was just a copy of the MacBook pro version, all the folders were missing.  When I right-clicked and used the "locate folder” option, the program crashed.  But when I reopened, all the raw files and edits on the backup disk were visible and editable.  Great progress I thought.  

 

Knowing that I now had a new catalogue on the backup disk, I disconnected the backup disk, reopened the catalogue on my Macbook Pro, and removed the folder that pointed to the archive disk.  I was hoping that the size of the original catalogue would be greatly reduced, but it has not changed at all.  It still occupies 29gb on my MacBook Pro:  this is space that I need to recover.  I’ve tried restarting and relaunching, but with no effect.  

 

Is there any way of reducing the size of the original catalogue.  I hope so, because I’d rather not have to do start all over again.  The original catalogue includes a few hundred pics that have been very carefully edited, and it would take me a week’s work to re-edit them.    

 

In short, Margaret, I just want to know how I can free up most of that 29gb of space without losing my work.   

 

Hoping you can help,

 

Paddy

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  Wolfgang Jarcik

  • November 19, 2020 08:47
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  Helga Rowles

  Paddy Gormley asks for help on her MAC-book and your answer is for a post for WINDOWS. What should Paddy do with this program?

  Mainly the post is on "answered"??

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  Uwe Kummernuß

  • November 19, 2020 12:00
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  und nicht die Standardantwort vergessen...........

  If further assistance is needed, please reach our support team at skylum.com/support.

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  Helga Rowles

  • November 19, 2020 15:33

  Hi Wolfgang,

  Thanks for pointing this out!
  I have deleted my first reply since it only applies to Windows.

   

  Paddy Gormley
  Unfortunately, there's no way to reduce the size of your current catalog. You can set up a new catalog and delete the old one, but the edits made in that catalog will be lost. Therefore, you will have to export the edited images in order not to lose your work.

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