Hello all, Looking for some advice on managing large photos libraries.
Over the last 13+ years my photos library has slowly grown and now contains 86000 photos and 6500 videos. Of course over time the photos on my cameras have increased in megapixel count and since updating my GoPro there are more and more 4k resolution videos. My library now sits at 1.23TB and is starting to feel inefficient. On the occasions where it needs to update the library because the photos app has been updated or if the file is perceived to be corrupted and needs to be restored this process can take a few days and nights. The photos library is sitting on an external mechanical drive (internal drive not big enough) and the library is populated with a range of metadata including photo locations, facial recognition fully utilised and all photos organised into albums based on the event or celebration. It's this added metadata held by photos which I value as much as the photos and videos themselves. I do not use iCloud photo syncing. I enjoy the convenience of all photos being in the one location. However, I am wondering if I should split the library into smaller versions. Perhaps one library for pre-2010, another for 2010-2020 and then a new library for the photos I have taken this year and in the future. I would hope this would make the library quicker to load and fix if things go wrong but in doing so is there functionality I am going to miss or downsides that should be a serious consideration. Any views from fellow Mac users on how to manage large photos libraries would be greatly appreciated. Ben. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/b35efda2-1094-403d-8167-67987d0d42d7%40googlegroups.com.
