[Leica] How do folks manage catalogs in Lightroom?

[Aram Langhans]

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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>