How do I remove all my current cataloged folders?
I have 112 catalogued folders. that I had in On1 when my MacBook Pro died.
Now I am on my new computer, a 27" iMac. I want to remove all 112 catalogue folders and start over again cataloging in a smarter way with all the new catalogue folders I make located on the same hard drive.
I tried uninstalling ON1 and then reinstalling it thinking that would let me start on a new slate.
The reinstall worked fine but On1 rememberers all those grayed out catalogue folders.
I can delete them one at a time but that will take forever.
Is there a way I can delete them more efficiently?
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The uninstall method will work, but you need to do a clean uninstall, not a basic one. On1 has a script for that, it will wipe any old On1 products so that you can start fresh. Read this article, the script is available at the bottom of it.
https://on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206500417-Uninstall-the-ON1-Software-Products
By the way... 112 catalogues!!! You should only really need 1 or 2. Don't know why you'd have so many, but On1 has other more efficient way of organizing your photos.
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My problem is just a little different. I just migrated 20,000+ photos from my Lr installation over to ON1. Somehow I ended up with 28 cataloged folders that were on the root of my D: drive. I only intended to catalog my Pictures folder. How do I remove these 28 folders from the catalog without deleting them from the drive?
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You can right-click on the Catalog entry in the My Catalogs tab and use the Remove Cataloged Folder command. Removing the catalog does not remove the directory that was cataloged and vice versa. The are just links to the actual folder that are used by the cataloging system.
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You can't just remove folders from a catalog without physically moving them on your PC. To me, it sounds like you should just remove that whole catalog and create a new one with the folders you wanted.
Just right-click the catalog and select remove. then find your Pictures folder and make a new catalog from there. You can expect On1 to take a while rebuilding that and it will probably slow down everything on your PC while it doing that.
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Hmm...that option is greyed out on my install. I can delete the folder but then I get the warning that it and any associated versions will moved to the Recycle Bin. Other folders have the same behavior.
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No, as I explained, you have to remove the Catalog, not the folder. Your Catalog is D:Data.
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The selected folder is not a catalog, it is a sub-folder inside the cataloged folder. In this case your entire D:[DATA] drive has been cataloged.
You should delete the catalog then build new ones individually for just those you want to see.
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Excellent! It is working in the background now. Thanks for the explanation.
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Hi, probably my post is not really on topic, but it refers to catalogued folders.
Rick you said: "By the way... 112 catalogues!!! You should only really need 1 or 2. Don't know why you'd have so many, but On1 has other more efficient way of organizing your photos."
I have 40000+ photos on an external SSD drive, all in six main folders, then subdivided in many subfolders.
The six main folders have been catalogued, and so are also my many many subfolders.
If I haven't done so, how could you search a keyword, for instance "autumn" without browsing each single folder?
what do you mean by saying: a more efficient way of organizing photos?
In fact, I have my Scratch folder & PerfectBrowse folder on another SSD external disk. My folders to be edited are in my notebook (MacPro), and they are catalogued too (the other six main folders are greyed out when the second disk is not attached). so, only two - three folders are active when I need to do some editing,
But when I need to search among my archives, I really need have them catalogued. Or am I doing something wrong here?
Thank you for your opinions
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To search your catalogs for images containing a specific keyword you can double-click on the keyword in the Keyword List panel. Double-check the Advanced Search panel to see that Search Cataloged Folders is turned on. It used to be turned on automatically but that changed with the 2020.1 update. It now retains whatever setting was last used.
If you have a parent folder cataloged it isn't necessary to create new catalogs for its sub-folders, they are automatically included in the catalog for their parent. Having said that, that is something I've done for a couple of my sub-folders just because I want to have easy access to those two folders without having to dig down through the folder hierarchy to get to them.
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Thank you Brian, I know how to search catalogued folders.
What I'm asking for, is: is it possible to search - in a single search - multiple folders if they aren't catalogued? I think not, that's why I'm asking opinions.
If you have tens of thousands of uncatalogued photos, how to you search among them?
Sorry for my unclear message
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Sorry, I didn't realize you were talking about searching uncatalogued folders. That can only be done one folder at a time. This is the advantage of cataloging. Without them you are restricted in your searches to just the current folder.
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OK, clear.
Now, back to my original post, regarding Rick's statement in this thread:
"By the way... 112 catalogues!!! You should only really need 1 or 2. Don't know why you'd have so many, but On1 has other more efficient way of organizing your photos."
MY thoughts are that you really NEED to have ALL your photos catalogued, otherwise you get lost among them :)
So, concluding: what are the most efficient ways of organizing your photos?
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Different people will have different needs that will determine how they organize their work. I have all my photos in the Pictures folder which I have moved to an external SSD. I cataloged that folder so all my photos are cataloged. Because you have 6 main folder with everything inside one of them (if I understand your setup correctly) those 6 main folders are all you need to have cataloged. The only reason to create a catalog for one of their sub-folders is to be able to navigate directly to it without having to dig through the file system hierarchy to get to it. Doing that will cause those sub-folders to have a second set of previews generated for the new catalog significantly increasing the size of your PerfectBrowseCache and the databases needed to tie it all together.
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Boy, have I got a mess now! Thought I had a handle on these cataloged folders until now.
I've been trying to get all my photos organized. They are all on my NAS and I had mapped a drive to the photo folder of that NAS - O:\ Windows Explorer shows it as - photo (\\DS214) (O:)
This setup worked fine as I could quickly search and tag folders with ease. So, I got finished doing that work and decided I didn't need the mapped drive any longer and disconnected it in Windows.
Next time I fired up On1 I have a couple hundred cataloged folders. I started removing them one by one but that is a real pain in the neck. There must be a better way to bulk remove the folders.
Now, I have remapped the drive but all the cataloged folders are still there and the computer's CPU is holding at around 75%. Not sure what it is actually doing.
How do I get myself out of this mess?
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You're not alone Mike, this has happened to a few people. You should report it to support so they can get a better handle on how big a problem is. I'd tell them you're not expecting help, just reporting the problem.
The way to fix this is to use the Reset ON1 Photo RAW 2021 button in the Delete Settings? dialog. This is going to blow away all your preferences, Catalogs, Albums, Keywords, etc. Basically everything but your edits. You'll have to rebuild everything but it is probably easier than trying to manually delete all the unwanted catalogs.
If you use Cloud Sync I would reset that also as your Albums won't match up any more. Let them resync as you rebuild them.
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I know this is ages late but it might be ok for someone who has just joined in.
If the catalogs used to be ok you may be able to do a reset and have the option to build from a previous back up file. If you were to rename the NAS to what it was before you will find the two synchronise depending on how many changes you made. The advantage? You can rename the NAS from within photoraw which retains everything as you had cataloged and you dont have to redo everything.
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