How to manage catalogs with the same photos in C1 and LR?

Rui Baptista

• May 01, 2018 12:45

I'm switching from LR to C1 but, due to the large size of my photo's library in LR, I'm progressively importing my photos to C1. It will take quite some time...
As such, for the time being, I'm having two catalogs (C1 and LR) and the question I'm faced with is how to manage them in a situation in which I have to delete a photo, a subfolder or move some photos from one folder to another. If I do that through C1, most certainly I'll be faced with errors popping up in LR's catalog. If I do it the other way around (making the changes in LR first, the opposite will probably occur: errors in C1's catalog (I haven't tried it but I suspect that is what will happen).
So, what should I do to make sure that I can keep both catalogs working without errors in these circumstances?

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  Dave R

  • May 01, 2018 15:40

  If I were you I would do the move in CaptureOne, in my experience Lightroom is far better for finding moved folders and images.
  Also see this thread

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  Rui Baptista

  • May 01, 2018 16:40

  Thank you! That's a sensible suggestion.

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  Ian Leslie

  • May 02, 2018 14:36

  Why are you moving images? Both LR and C1 can just reference images where they currently are. When I made the move I just created a C1 catalogue that pointed to my exiting images.

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  photophart

  • May 12, 2018 17:56

  As with IanL's answer, I'm using both C1 and LR and they are both looking at the same directory of RAW images. Since LR and C1 have different catalogs saved in different places this actually works. What's tricky is remembering what you did to which image in which app. To simplify I have individual export directories for each app when I'm finished working on an image. It only gets messy if I export an image from LR and then decide to work on that exported image in C1, or vise versa.
  Regards Mark

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