Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information