On 6/7/2010 9:25 PM, Bob W wrote:
there are some bits and pieces on the net about this. In particular, this
one:
<http://forums.adobe.com/thread/480271>
This doesn't help you with your size problem.
And this one:
<http://www.lightroomforums.net/index.php?topic=8041.0>
I have the impression from scanning some of the threads that people are
getting themselves seriously confused and starting to use more than
catalogue to do things which the catalogue itself is designed to do.
That was most helpful, Bob. Well, I am *not* worried about the number of
pictures or size of my catalog as such. It is 30,000+ frames and 400+
MB. And it is reasonably organized collection as far as my reason and
organizational abilities go.
But consider this. I've a section called "International Travel". It
contains 8,000+ frames. It is a bit of a separate thing. Well, I travel,
I take the pics, I export 'em and process them. So finally they end up
in that section. I still need to do some keywording, but otherwise - it
is pretty much done with. So, I thought to myself, what if I offload
them to a separate catalog and reference it from the main catalog.
Indeed, this is all a matter of my personal way of doing things in a
convincingly comfortable manner. Indeed, this part of the grand catalog
changes very rarely - basically once a year when I do travel (sans
several business trips that I had last year and this one). So why would
I have to lug it around, keep backing it up (I back up my LR catalog
routinely), and so on... OTOH, if I wanted to print a pic of my daughter
in Norway back in 2006 - I would have to return to that catalog, and
being properly lazy it would be only convincingly comfortable to access
that picture(s) via the "soft link" from within the main catalog...
But, as you say and they write, it is impossible to achieve just yet.
Still, thanks for letting me get my head rolling in a new and may be
interesting direction.
Boris
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