That broke the job up into manageable chunks. So I made collections based on capture year and exported them as annual catalogs. I decided I had to revamp my catalog system. I got up to 65K images in the catalog and it was still tough to find things. I had all sorts of junk in there and duplicates and different edit versions and limited keywords. My photopile got really large and unwieldy. The only time a one-year catalog was useful to me was when I was learning how to use LR effectively. The test catalog gets cleaned out occasionally or just dumped and restarted. That way I'm not mixing ephemeral junk with my master catalog. So I have a master catalog of photos and another catalog where I put experiments and tests.
I still take it and create a new master catalog every new year (with the old year appended to the catalog name so I can keep track of where I left off). It was sort of convenient because I had only one year's photos in the short catalog and at the end of the year I could go through them and toss the junk.īut then I retired and had fewer images to deal with so it was fairly easy to toss the junk in real time.
All my photos would go into my current year catalog and when the year changed, the current year catalog would get merged with the master catalog creating a new master catalog. I used to have a current year catalog and a master catalog. Since I put the date and time in my file names, that's how I find out when I took a photo. If I want to remember a date, I can find it by finding a photo. Family photos have repeating dates so separating them by year would confuse the situation by placing similar topics in different catalogs. Organizing my photos by year does not work for me because I can't remember dates. Professionals might find topical catalogs to be effective but I'm not professional. I believe the most efficient way is to have a single catalog with all your photos. Does it make sense to make one catalog "Photos" and in this catalog to have all years like 2021, 2022, 2023 and all the lightroom files in the same catalog? So only one main catalog, which contains each year and the lightroom files? If not, why?
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