Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina you are doing what I had envisaged, but with one slight difference. I'm "hoping" to keep all images in one catelog so I can search the lot. Can LR search multiple catelogs, and do you know if there are severe performance penalties after a certain size? I'm up to 42000 images in my archive catelog now, and it may be a good time to think differently Cheers --- images@comporium.net wrote: From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Quick LR2 tip? How to import? Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:44:38 -0500 At 06:28 PM 12/14/2008, you wrote: >Or would it be better if I create different catalogs for different things, >e.g. may be by the "E-3" subdir etc.? > >What are the best practices? > >Thanks. From what I've learned, the fewer catalogs the better. Right now, I'm planning one for each year. I used to file everything based on country and subject, but this way, with the Find feature in LR really makes more sense. Everything for one year is in one huge catalog but you can search across it all in seconds and, once the previews are loaded, it takes no time to view anything. The catalogs take up very little space on a hard drive. I started out with a 500 GB hard drive to keep my catalogs on. With catalogs for all of 2007, 2008, and one Archive for everything before that, I still have 448 GB. I rename everything immediately on importing with a file name based on the date with a sequence number after that. When I import them, I add keywords for each import that will help me filter and find the photos later. So far, it is very efficient. I set the LR catalogs to back up regularly and have had no problems. Hope this helps. Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information