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catalog managment

alessandro ceccnoi
I have one question. I have a bunch of images in one catalog, all organized in a group nicely. If I wanted to move them or the group to another catalog, how can I do that?

thank you
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    With CO8 you can export a collection (album, smart album) as a new CO catalog. Look in the File menu for Export as Catalog. Next, either open that new catalog and use it as a starting point for a new collection of images. Or you import that exported catalog into another catalog (File menu, Import Catalog).
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  • alessandro ceccnoi
    [quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
    With CO8 you can export a collection (album, smart album) as a new CO catalog. Look in the File menu for Export as Catalog. Next, either open that new catalog and use it as a starting point for a new collection of images. Or you import that exported catalog into another catalog (File menu, Import Catalog).


    Paul, thank you for your reply. My question is when I do that, do the actual images stay put or do they get attached to the new catalog?
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  • paintbox
    It is my understanding that the original images will stay put, unless you specify otherwise.
    Check out this video it may be of help.

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  • Paul Steunebrink
    In the exported catalog, the image are located as in the original catalog it was exported from.

    In other words, fully managed (inside) images are also stored inside the exported catalog. Referenced images (outside) are remain outside in the exported catalog.

    I suggest you do a small scale testing to get the idea.
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  • alessandro ceccnoi
    [quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
    In the exported catalog, the image are located as in the original catalog it was exported from.

    In other words, fully managed (inside) images are also stored inside the exported catalog. Referenced images (outside) are remain outside in the exported catalog.

    I suggest you do a small scale testing to get the idea.


    Thanks Paul for you help. I was hoping this was t he case and it is actually.... I am overwhelmed with joy!
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  • alessandro ceccnoi
    [quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
    In the exported catalog, the image are located as in the original catalog it was exported from.

    In other words, fully managed (inside) images are also stored inside the exported catalog. Referenced images (outside) are remain outside in the exported catalog.

    I suggest you do a small scale testing to get the idea.


    Unfortunately that is wrong. If you import catalogs into catalogs the images are attached to your catalog and get ingested instead of being left where they were ......... perhaps some one from PO can shed some light on why this is
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    I had tested it a few months ago, and just replayed it after I read your post. I do not know what is happening at your setup, as you do not provide specifics, but referenced images in the originating catalog, remain referenced in the exported catalog. Next, after importing the exported catalog into a new catalog, the images are still referenced.

    CO Pro 8.0.2/OS X 10.10.1
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  • alessandro ceccnoi
    [quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
    I had tested it a few months ago, and just replayed it after I read your post. I do not know what is happening at your setup, as you do not provide specifics, but referenced images in the originating catalog, remain referenced in the exported catalog. Next, after importing the exported catalog into a new catalog, the images are still referenced.

    CO Pro 8.0.2/OS X 10.10.1

    Paul I would like to live in your world, alas importing catalogs creates all sorts of problems. I have an open case with support, but in general if I export a group!!! as a catalog and import it into a new catalog it messes up the new catalog. I have just send a screen video to support to show them how repeatable some of the problems are. This is exporting a group as a catalog! and importing in into another catalog
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  • paintbox
    [quote="alececco" wrote:
    [quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
    I had tested it a few months ago, and just replayed it after I read your post. I do not know what is happening at your setup, as you do not provide specifics, but referenced images in the originating catalog, remain referenced in the exported catalog. Next, after importing the exported catalog into a new catalog, the images are still referenced.

    CO Pro 8.0.2/OS X 10.10.1

    Paul I would like to live in your world, alas importing catalogs creates all sorts of problems. I have an open case with support, but in general if I export a group!!! as a catalog and import it into a new catalog it messes up the new catalog. I have just send a screen video to support to show them how repeatable some of the problems are. This is exporting a group as a catalog! and importing in into another catalog


    Please keep us updated as to the results of your support case.
    Too many times people have issues, talk about 'em and never follow up with the group.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Well, to follow up on this thread, I discovered by accident that the catalog export feature has a checkbox, in English titled "Include Originals".

    The effect of this option is that images that are external to the catalog before export, become internal to the new exported catalog. Because that is the issue discussed here, I can not exclude user error, unintentional of course, that this has been checked where it should better not.

    Hope this helps.
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