> > 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.
that's all quite reasonable, but Boris wants to split the catalogue itself, not the collection of files - different problem. 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.
