Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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! -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // b: http://richardfman.wordpress.com