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Subject: [Leica] OT: Quick LR2 tip? How to import?
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun Dec 14 17:16:26 2008
References: <20081214165814.1E7A0CE7@resin17.mta.everyone.net> <200812150113.BFL22871@rg4.comporium.net>

I imported all my photos (probably will redo after I re-org the folders),
and there are 70,000+ photos. LR2 seems to be handling it just fine right
now...


On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:

> At 07:58 PM 12/14/2008, you wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Hi, Alastair -
>
> You can certainly keep all of your images in one catalog.  LR forums say
> people have well over 100,000 images in one catalog with no problems.  I
> separate mine by years for my convenience, not LR's.  LR can search 
> multiple
> catalogs.  In Library, you would just highlight all of the catalogs that 
> you
> want to search.  If you find that your catalog seems to be slowing down,
> just go to Edit > Catalog Settings and click on Optimize and Relaunch.  It
> speeds things up dramatically.
>
> Don't worry.  42,000 is far from the limit, if there is one!


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// richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
// b: http://richardfman.wordpress.com

In reply to: Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] OT: Quick LR2 tip? How to import?)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] OT: Quick LR2 tip? How to import?)