> It is not the performance that I am worried about. My main catalog before I > thought I'd start splitting was at 420 MB. That's a lot of info.
Have you tried compressing and optimizing the catalog? It should reduce the size somewhat. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/7/2010 10:55 AM, AlunFoto wrote: >> >> Boris, >> >> My understanding is that you can't have one catalog indexing another. > > It is my understanding as well, but I don't pretend to have deep knowledge > of LR operation, so was my question. > >> If you want to reduce the size of the catalog, one way to approach it >> is maybe to offload a selection based on certain metadata criteria. >> Like, select all images with two stars or less, from more than 3 years >> ago, and then export as a catalog. Or you can offload images based on >> topic from your keywords, for example; finished series, discrete >> projects like "NuttyNorwegiansFeb2005" or similar. Your options will >> be limited by the amount of metadata you have applied though. :-) >> >> Dunno what exactly affects performance of LR, but maybe the setting >> for retention of 1:1 previews has something to do with it? >> >> Jostein > > It is not the performance that I am worried about. My main catalog before I > thought I'd start splitting was at 420 MB. That's a lot of info. > > Now, Jostein, what you suggest is "offloading". But that's exactly what I > want to do too. However, I still want to be able to hmmm how to put it - > have a look at the whole collection as a whole and not to remember that the > photo of Galia and Jorgen from 2005 is in that catalog and another photo of > Galia and Jorgen from 2006 is in fact in another catalog... > > I am sure you see what I mean. > > Boris > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
