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collections and publish services Unfortunately, there’s no way to transfer (regular) collections or collection sets to the new catalog, so take some notes of the ones you want to re-create manually later. For any smart collections you want to bring over, you can export the settings:
step one: Right-click on the smart collection and choose Export Smart Collection Settings.
step two: In the Save dialog that appears, confirm the name of the smart collection (or give it a new one), choose where you want to save it (someplace you’ll remem- ber), and click Save. Repeat for each smart collection.
Later, in the new catalog, you can create new collection sets to organize your collections, then Right-click on the desired collection set, and choose Import Smart Col- lection Settings to bring them in.
keyword list
Keywords applied to your photos can be written to each photo’s XMP metadata, and when you later import those photos into your new catalog, you’ll see those keywords appear in the Keyword List panel. Any keywords in your keyword list that haven’t been applied to photos, though, won’t be included (and will be lost). To preserve your entire key- word list, you can export the list as a text file from your old catalog, and then import that text file into your new catalog.
step one: Go to Metadata>Export Keywords.
step two: In the resulting Export Keywords dialog, enter a name for the keyword list and choose a location where you can easily find it again.
Later, in the new catalog, go to Metadata>Import Keywords, and select that text file to import the keyword list.
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