> > 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.
OK, but think through the implications of having an uber-catalogue - not just the benefits to you, but also the disadvantages - it would introduce enormous complexity. The disadvantages will far outweigh the costs you have outlined - lugging it around and backing it up are not serious costs to you. It doesn't weigh anything, you've already said you're not having performance problems, and the backup is merely a little extra processing which takes place in the background while you're asleep, presumably. B -- 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.
