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Managing catalogs and folders
Last updated 11/30/2015
Enable Reverse Geocoding of GPS Coordinates To Provide Address Suggestions Allows Lightroom to send your
photo's GPS coordinates, if available, to Google so that Lightroom can determine the city, state, and country of the
photo and add that information into the IPTC Location metadata.
Export Reverse Geocoding Suggestions Whenever Address Fields Are Empty If selected, Lightroom includes
Google-suggested IPTC Location metadata in photos when you export them.
Write Date Or Time Changes Into Proprietary Raw Files This option controls whether Lightroom writes a new date
and time to proprietary raw files when you use the Metadata > Edit Capture Time command to change a photo’s
capture time metadata. By default, this option is not selected.
Optimize the catalog
After you have imported, edited, and perhaps removed a number of files, Lightroom may run slower. When that
happens, optimize your catalog to improve performance.
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Choose File > Optimize Catalog.
More Help topics
Lightroom catalog FAQ
How Lightroom catalogs work
Optimize Lightroom performance
Back up a catalog
Plan your backup strategy
Lightroom allows you to schedule regular catalog backups when you exit the software. Backups executed from
Lightroom include only the catalog file. You must independently back up your edited photos and anything exported
from Lightroom.
Performing frequent, regular catalog backups is only part of what should be a comprehensive backup strategy. When
formulating a backup strategy:
• Remember that the more frequently you back up your catalog and photos, the less data you stand to lose when a
crash or corruption occurs.
• If possible, store the backup copies of your photos and catalog on a separate hard disk from your working files.
• Consider using dedicated backup software to automate the process and synchronize changes between your working
and backup files.
• If you’re worried that your backup files might be accidentally erased, create redundant backups on additional disks,
or on read-only media such as DVDs.
• For greater security, store your backup disk in a separate location from your working disk, preferably offsite or in a
fire-proof safe.
• Consider making copies of your photos when you import them. Remember that this gives you only a copy of your
original photos, not your edited photos. See
Back up photos during import.