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Subject: [Leica] How do folks manage catalogs in Lightroom?
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 21:42:25 -0400
References: <FB029D07-F942-4DF1-B6CB-F20BF250B4DB@mac.com> <7521c07c-2a5f-3ed0-6b4d-d24ccaaef23d@hotmail.com>

You are right, Aram. You cannot search across multiple catalogs. You have to 
open each catalog and search it separately. 

Tina

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 23, 2018, at 9:33 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Adam.  I have everything in one catalog.  It amounts to about 60k of 
> photos but it is plenty fast for me.  My catalog has many folders, usually 
> by year, and many sub folders under each by topic/trip/whatever.  And I 
> have keyworded just about everything. Still some from the distant past, or 
> those that I have scanned from film way back before I had lightroom that I 
> have to get to. With keywording it really does not matter too much where 
> they are, I will find them quickly.  And with metadata searches it is easy 
> to pull up what you want by dates or lens or camera or whatever. If I had 
> multiple catalogs I would need to repeat these processes for each catalog 
> before I could find things.  Slow to load up a new catalog each time.  And 
> then how to you get them all in one place when you want to work with all 
> those photos from a particular search if they are in multiple catalogs?  
> As far as I know there is no way to say look at all my Nevada Falls photos 
> at once if they are in separate catalogs.  Maybe someone can enlighten me 
> on how this could be done.
> 
> 
> Aram
> 
> 
>> On 5/23/2018 4:39 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>> I?m wondering about how Lightroom users here manage catalogs.
>> 
>> Is it 1) one catalog for everything
>>       2) a catalog a year
>>       3) something else?
>> 
>> Even with the ?new/improved/faster? Lightroom my large catalog is getting 
>> a bit unwieldy. But I find I browse past photos looking for a particular 
>> image. Since Tina got me reved up on keywording (thanks for that, Tina) 
>> being able to look through ALL my photos works well.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] How do folks manage catalogs in Lightroom?)
Message from leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] How do folks manage catalogs in Lightroom?)