Originally posted by sanndennis
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In manage mode, you can open the Dashboard, then select the Database Tab. It will show the number of Image Files, Video Files and other files that have entries in the database, so you can do a check on each PC.
It also shows under Orphan Assets the number of Orphaned files and folders. When you do a Tools->Database->Optimize, and you tick "Remove orphans from the database", then after the optimization and subsequent restart one could expect that the Dashboard should show zero for both Orphaned folders and files. but for some reason I've yet to fully understand, over time this is not always the case. For example, this morning after a database optimization with the "remove orphans from the database" ticked, and a restart, the dashboard on my primary PC still showed 258 files and 15 folder under Orphaned Assets, and continued to do so even after using the "Remove Orphan Folders" option in Database Maintenance.. So as I do every so often, I started a new database, and Cataloged the image collection into it. The number of images and video files now shown in the Dashboard is the same as before, but the number of other files has dropped, and the Orphan Assets count is now zero, as expected.
So the point I'm making here is that creating a new database on the old PC and Cataloging the image collection into it will achieve what you want, but will probably not technically result in an exact miirror of the database on the current PC. Comparing the details from the database tab in the Dashboard is in my view a worthwhile.exercise.
I have one question for you. My understanding is you have all your images on your NAS, and you access them as required from each PC. Do you have a backup of the images elsewhere?
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