I've posted on this once or twice before, and at one point received some useful sounding suggestions that I can't retrace through the threads. Apologies for repetition.
I maintain 2 libraries: one for active material on my drives, the other an archive of material I've off-loaded to clear drive space (I'm not cheap, just indecisive about getting another drive or upgrading my entire system).
I've got a lot of data in my various comment and custom fields that I don't want to have to replicate in my archive library when I remove files. If I simply delete what I've removed to CD-R from the active library and re-import data from the CD-Rs into my archive library, I don't get the custom fields. I can work around the problem by cloning the two libraries, and then manually deleting active files from the archive library, and vice-versa, but its clunky and a pain in the butt.
Is there a short cut I'm missing? Thnxs for yr help.
HTH