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Apr 21, 2012

I use to have all my pictures in a single catalog - "MyPics". It contains around 50.000 photos.
 
Last week, LR4 has silently created a new copy of my catalog: "MyPics-2". No warning, no message. I did not notice immediately.
 
The 2 catalog files have roughly the same size, but the preview folders are very different: old: 350MB, 100 files, 115 folders new: 280GB, 47000 files, 34000 folders I assume it moved the preview files from old to new.
 
Is my assumption of moved preview files correct? Is this related to the upgrade from LR3.6 to LR4?
 
LR4, Win7x64, 8GB Ram

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