Adding Catalogs in Light Room
Adding Catalogs in Light Room
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The downside of using separate catalogs is that only one can be active at a time, and you can't seach across all of them - only the active one.
I currently have about 14,000 images cataloged in Lightroom 2.1, performance is fine, and I feel no need to go with separate catalogs. The advantages of a single catalog outweigh the disadvantages (which haven't manifested themselves in my situation).
Now, when I'm shooting in the field, I'll set up a new catalog on an external hard drive that attaches to my laptop. When I finish the shoot and get home, I'll merge that catalog into my primary one. That way, I get all the edits, ratings, virtual copies, labels, previews and actual images that were in the catalog and don't have to regenerate those again.