First question, which version of Lightroom are you using? Adobe is taking obfuscation to new heights, since Lightroom became Lightroom Classic, something that seems mostly usable to people who have phones and fast internet, but no real camera or storage is now Lightroom, plus there are folks still on LR6 so they don’t have to pay the monthly ransom ….
> On Jan 11, 2023, at 2:50 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > …for a Lightroom catalog? > > Mine has 54,590 images on it today. It seems to work fine (knocking wood); > the only problem is that the list of folders along the left side is getting > rather long (one folder per year, since 2005). It is backed up to external > drives and the cloud. I currently run Lightroom Classic. I have two main catalogs, “Working” and “Everything”. Every so often I will export all of my “new” photos and recently edited photos to a “catchup” catalog, which then gets imported into my Everything catalog. When that is good, I then delete a bunch of stuff from my “Working” catalog so that it doesn’t get too big. I think my working catalog is somewhere between 20,000 & 80,000 images, and my everything is upwards of 800,000. Since I use jf_flickr to upload to flickr, and it doesn’t seem to talk between catalogs, I keep most of what I post to flickr in my working catalog, so that I can easily update files. I will also make special purpose catalogs as needed, and import the new/changed files back into Everything. > > Am I tempting fate in some way, or should I just roll along happily? Keep good backups. you can copy your catalog files to another drive and recover to them. You shouldn’t have problems with a catalog of that size. As to the length of the folder list, you could move the annual files into folders for each decade, so you’d have a folder for the oughts, one for the teens, and probably leave the twenties in the top level because they’re recent and more likely to be accessed. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
