> 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. >
It's not particularly big for a LR catalogue - it's well within it's capabilities I believe. > 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. 'Exporting a selection as a catalogue' is the phrase you're looking for. If you do that and delete the exported items from the original catalogue then you will indeed be required to remember which photos are in which catalogue. You are trying to have your cake and eat it too. I think the catalogue handling would have to be rejigged to do what you want. Lightroom would need to treat its catalogue as a logical catalogue, being the union of several physical catalogues each in a different file, and give you the option to choose one or more of the physical catalogues within it or use the whole logical catalogue. It would need to recognise that some pictures could appear in different catalogues with different metadata, and resolve the conflicts somehow. Log a change request and get Adobe to assign an analyst. Bob -- 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.
