Deleting Catalog Folders?

[Tornado]

I needed to archive off ~200 GB of older image originals to a network drive. They are now accessible in my ASP catalog refering to that network drive. Since the catalog still also refers to these images on the local C:drive, I need to delete those old entries in the catalog. But there does not seem to be an efficient way to handle this large number of entries (~12,000). Trying to go one catalog folder at a time will take me weeks.

Suggestions?

[afx]

Create a new catalog.. much more efficient.

cheers
afx

[WilsonC]

Create a new catalog.. much more efficient.

cheers
afx

The paths in the Database are not relative, correct? So copying all your pictures and the database to another drive, and then deleting the files in the original location will cause AfterShot to "lose" the files and display the "File Offline" mark on the thumbnails.

Would you need to write out the XMP files first before creating the new database (to keep all edits, ratings, keywords)?

That's what I've been doing so far. Started out with one giant database, but then created a new database for the current year...and an archive database for all previous years mirrored on two external drives.

[grubernd]

a) as afx said: nuke and re-import.
b) write ASP-XMP files first. might take a while, like.. a night.
c) create multiple catalogs. especially for the temporary stuff that isnt in the place where "the archive" is. you can have multiple cats open in ASP at the same time, so it's not really a big problem and it makes things much easier to handle.

=)