Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Peter - Just the fact that you can't open more than one catalog at a time. If you know what year a particular photo was made, you would only have to open that one catalog, but if you need to search (which I often do), you cannot search across several catalogs. My plan, recommended by Peter Krogh, is to have one catalog for Archive photos - anything made before this year - and one catalog for the current year. The current year catalog would be much smaller and would normally be the one that I'm working on most of the time. The smaller catalog would be faster to work on and the Archive catalog would be for searching anything I've already keyworded and filed. Tina On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>wrote: > Tina, > > I am only just starting to work with LR and am thinking about how I might > handle > my stuff (which is nothing like as big as yours of course!) I thought that > I > might split the Archive up by years. Is there any reason that you can't > split up > into more than two? > > Peter > > On 31/01/2014 14:43, Tina Manley wrote: > > PESO: > > > > I haven't commented on photos lately because I can't get to them. My > main > > computer is tied up with LR. After reading Peter Krogh's latest book on > > digital management, I decided to divide my photos into two LR catalogs > > instead of one huge one. I made one for Archive photos and kept the > > original catalog for Current photos. That part went fine. Then I had to > > remove all of the Archive photos from the the Current catalog. LR worked > > on it for two days, I left it working when I went to Charleston. When I > > came back it was 88% finished, but I got a notice that my computer was > > dangerously low on memory and was shutting down. I had to start all over > > again. Now it's been working for three days and is 85% finished. I have > > shut down everything else on the computer, including e-mail. I'm using > my > > little Acer netbook for e-mail. LR is using 99% of the physical memory - > > 8GB. I had over 500,000 photos in the one catalog and am trying to > remove > > 175,000. I guess I should have done it in smaller amounts. > > > > The Acer is too small and slow to look at photos, but I'll catch up > someday. > > > > Any suggestions besides throwing the computer out the window would be > > greatly appreciated. I can't even download the photos I took in > > Charleston!! > > > > Tina > > . > > > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com