Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Are you using File menu > Import from Another Catalog to move the photos to the other catalog? Tina On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:18 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > i'm trying this strategy and have a worry > > imported yesterday's images into slimmed "current" > > later imported additions from "current" to "full" catalog of several years > images. > > did not duplicate image files, left them in the same arachive folder > > now all those images (in current) are showing metadata change warnings > asking if it should overwrite or import > > nothing has changed except they were included in a different catalog > > what should i do? > is it unavaoidable? > > ric > > > > > > On Feb 2, 2014, at 10:34 AM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > > > i've just stated trying something like that. > > > > my LR catalog was getting slow as the devil to open or search > > > > I'm trying annual catalogs plus current which is last year and this year > so far plus one slow open master with everything > > > > keeping those older annuals up to date is one concern i'm having now > > > > ric > > > > > > > > On Feb 2, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > 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