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     I want to start over from scratch. I have toyed with deleting my 73,000 Card Collection. The only reason I have not yet is I have 2 trades awaiting to be Completed from my partners. The USPS has that delayed 3 weeks. I thought it best for all Trades to be Completed before deleting.

     I wish I had taken things slower for a lot of different reasons. Can I "Create Another Collection" and accomplish this? I have been wanting so bad to enter my 2021 Bowman and start trading but I have been holding off. 

     I would start there. After that, as I begin to re-enter into the New Collection, I would delete from the Old Collection by Sets. Eventually, the end result would be, the Main Collection I have now would dwindle down and this New Collection would become the Main Collection. Basically, I would put my current Collection to the side as a reference point, and begin to re-enter and do things differently with better organization.

     We bought a new house and I have the opportunity to put all my Cards in one room and then begin to pull them out slowly and organize better. I will have one room for My Collection and one room for Traders.

     So, Can I "Create Another Collection"...Shut Down All Notifications For The Collection I Currently Have(Basically Just Turn It Off)...Setup The New Collection To Receive Wantlist and Trade Matches...Keep The  Old Collection As A Refernce Point As I Begin To Re-Enter And Delete From The Original Old Collection?

     In the end I want One Collection that contains everything (just as I have now) Collection, Wantlist, For Sale/Trade all in one. My Collection is very well organized but I have my reasons for wanting to do this. Any advice from anyone who has done something similar would be appreciated.

You dont need to delete anything, you took the time to load all those cards dont undo that.  There are tools to mass move sets of cards from one collection to another.  If you go into the Add/Update section of a set there is a drop down field under the one for select the base or insert sets.  Theres all kinds of neat mass move selections in there.  

     That was a topic I was hoping would come up. Can I start a New Collection with 2021 Bowman, then when ready transfer all my 2020 Topps Holiday to the New Collection? 

Simple answer, yes. Example for myself. I used to have all my card under just one collection. I found that it became unwieldy for me to manage things so I started mutiple collections. I now have one collection dedicated to a each sport to include non-sport plus one that has all my traders regardless of sport. I slowly moved things out of my main collection into each of these collections even as I was adding new things to the DB into the appropriate location.

Yes you can! You just have to move cards entered. I cannot remeber if its one by one or you can select multiple!

It can be multiple. In the drop-down for each set there is an option for "Move all card to XXX" where XXX is the collection name. If you only want to move select cards instead of all from that set then yes, it has to be done individually.

Surely, and from info provided, you can move multiple Cards at once. I would want to move Collection, Wantlist, and For Trade. One other question...Can I shut down the Current Collection's Notifications of Trade Matches and start with new notifications for the New Collection?

Yes there is a FAQ on it but you can go to your profile settings and turn of transaction propsols. Also I would hide your trade/for sale list and your want list.

Your Want List / FS/FT List notifications are for your entire collection ("All Collections"), not just a single one.

If you have any other questions about multiple collections or moving stuff around, feel free to reach out to me directly. I'm sitting at over 200 collections and have only incoming cards in the "Main Collection" - but had over 110,000 cards in the Main Collection at one point.

Thanks everybody!! After my second Forum post on this subject, I think I have talked myself out of starting over. I am still up in the air. I have all my Cards in one room in the new house. I have probably over 500,000. 73,000 logged. The Cards that are logged have a tag on the box, album, or whatever storage indicating they are recorded in TCDB. Thanks for the help.