Leo Messi a écrit:
I don't want to lose the work I put into catalog 1, so I would like to import the data of catalog 1 into catalog 2 and use catalog 2 in the future. I gather that I might be able to do this by first using the "Save Metadata to Files" command and then reimporting the files (and metadata, hopefully) into catalog 2. Are there any gotchas with doing this?
As I said, you'll lose albums, stacks and version sets, not your tags, captions or ratings.
To recover the tags hierarchy, use the menu to save the keywords in text format, and before the import, import the tags hierarchy from the text file. That way, the tags in the files metadata will be imported in the right level.
If albums are important for you and not too numerous, assign a specific tag to each album 'albThing' or the like. It'll be easy to put them back in albums afterward. If the 'custom order' in those albums should be kept, that is another story. The only way I know would be to export them from the album with the option of renaming with sequential numbers.
Most users are happy with that solution which is not apt to create bad surprises.