[Leica] How do folks manage catalogs in Lightroom?

[Tina Manley]

One reason I have all of the Archive in one catalog is so I can search
through everything.  I do this all the time for stock photo sales.  I can't
always remember what year I took a photo of children playing tug of war,
but if I have everything in one catalog, I can search for tug of war
through the last 40 years included in one catalog and it pops up
immediately.  That is crucial to being able to sell stock photos.  You can,
of course, search through all of the metadata for every photo you've ever
taken if they are all in one catalog.

Tina

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 8:31 PM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> i’m just backwards from tina
>
> work from a full catalog on one drobo
>
> backup catalogs for each year on a second drobo
>
> ric
>
>
>
>
> > On May 23, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have two catalogs.  One is Archival which includes everything except
> this
> > year.  The other is Current which is what I've taken this year.  The
> > Archival catalog is huge and so a little slower.  That doesn't usually
> > matter since I'm using that mainly for searching and posting what has
> > already been edited.  The Current catalog is very small and fast which is
> > good because it's what I'm working on and editing now.
> >
> > I've read several books on LR cataloging and how to manage it and this is
> > the system I use.  It works.
> >
> > Keywords are always a good thing ;-)
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Adam Bridge via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org>
> > 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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