Using LR Classic, currently at v.12.0.1 My All Photographs catalog is at about 276k images. There are about 262k in a Missing Photographs catalog. I suspect those “missing” images are the ones on my external drives, which I keep turned off mostly. Some of the “missing” are due to a recent renaming of some of my folders, it will be trivial to “find” them again when needed. My 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 images are in the Pictures folder on my internal drive. Currently showing 31k
Every once in a while I turn on the external drives and/or plug in my backup SSDs, either to do a periodic backup of the items on my hard drive, or to open up an earlier year folder and thus “find” the missing images. 20+ years ago, before Lightroom, I was doing some SQL work on a volunteer basis, helping create and maintain large databases of names/address/etc. Working with a very fine, long since deceased, Mac-based program whose name escapes me. I toyed with the idea of creating my own image db program, but then one came on the market (pre LR still). I used it, I worried about what would happen as the catalog size grew, and made sure that I had extensive backups. Microsoft bought the program, killed it very soon after that, but by then LR was here. As Rob mentioned, the downside of a very large catalog is the speed hit you take when e.g. doing a catalog backup or when bringing in older images whose Previews have been purged. I mostly work on “recent” images. Having an “active” catalog of 20-30k images works just fine. Back early in the pandemic I started a project to organize and publish (as Blurb books) my images from our travels. Got as far as a Caribbean book (2002, 2013-2018) which required working across many older image sets. I do not recall LR being an issue. The experience did lead me to trade in my 2013 Mac for a much faster 2021 Mac but LR per se was never an issue. Stan > On Jan 11, 2023, at 5:50 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> 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. > > Am I tempting fate in some way, or should I just roll along happily? > > Rick > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
