> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Suppose I've a LR catalog A. Now, it is very big and I want to take > part of it out and make a separate catalog (suppose it is all my > family album pictures for sake of example). So I make catalog B that > contains a subset of pictures from catalog A. I then go and remove > from A all the pictures that are in B. > > Now, is there a way in which I can say to LightRoom something like - > here is the (soft link) location from which you should consult catalog > B and have all this knowledge displayed somehow when I open catalog A? > Effectively I want to divide my pictures to sub-catalogs but I want to > have a single point of entry to this whole structure.
Boris, My friend, who shall remain anonymous does the following. He has a laptop with a not-so-big drive on it. The drive is not big enough for all of his photos. On the laptop he has a directory where all his photos go. Maybe something like this: c:\sams_photo_files\ When he downloads them to his computer he makes a new directory as required, maybe something like this: c:\sams_photo_files\2010\20100601 - Dads Birthday\ Then he imports all of his pictures into lightroom and works with them there etc. For the physical files in the directories above, he leaves the newer files on his laptop. But the old stuff (say anything before 2008) he removes the files/directories and stores them physically on a backup drive. And the drive has the same simple file structure. His backup drive might look something like this: e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2008\... e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2009\... e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2010\20100501 - Pentax EVIL Camera Preview\ e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2010\\20100601 - Dads Birthday\ etc Lightroom mostly allows him to look at his collections, tags, photos, etc, for the files that are no longer physically on his laptop. If he wants to manipulate/edit those files, however, he would first need to copy the old directory and files from the backup drive back onto his laptop. What this does not do for you is to cut down on the size of your lightroom database file. What it does do, is allow you to keep a relatively light footprint of physical photo files on your computer and offload most of those files to a backup drive. I just thought I'd throw this out there. No doubt the experts will have 101 reasons not to do this. It's not the cleanest solution and probably doesn't accomplish what you want. But maybe it will get you thinking about some other options. And by the way, I have only used lightroom a handfull of times, so am almost entirely clueless about it. --------------------------- Sam -- 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.
