How big is your Lightroom catalogue?

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I have about 15.5k of images mostly raws from the 5D and 1DMKIII which occupies about 180gb on an external Buffalo USB2 drive

I use a Core 2 Duo Thinkpad 2 x L7500 1.6GHz cpus

Is this a ridiculous amount for one catalogue? What do you have/do?
 
I remanaged my workflow at the start of this september, and since then, across 4 catalogues, I have added 30,865 photos, the largest having 18,000 odd.

It never skips a beat... lr's pretty bulletproof imo :)
 
Currently all my "keepers" - 26240 images from film scans in 2000 through to images taken yesterday on my 7D.

Takes up about 250 Gb or so.
 
61,000 images across 2 drives ( external ) soon to become 3. No problems all in one catalogue
 
I have a 1TB drive that is nearly full - many tens of thousands of photos - no idea. I have no regard for LR catalogues whatsoever. They only get created because the program forces it. I create it inside the folder containing the pictures I'm working on - a holiday, containing say 7000 jpgs & raws perhaps. I convert the raws to DNGs, which will contain the edits within each individual DNG without needing a catalogue or xmps. I manage and view all my photos with ACDSee. LR is an absolutely appalling program for photo management. I can delete or lose a catalogue without a second thought.
 
I have 72242 in just one catalog and it still works fine.

Mind you it was a nightmare recently when I changed to 1Tb drives.

All the drives changed letters and LR could not find the associated pics.

Alll in all though, I think it is a good way of locating my photos as well as giving me most of the PP I need.
 
MisterE said:
I have a 1TB drive that is nearly full - many tens of thousands of photos - no idea. I have no regard for LR catalogues whatsoever. They only get created because the program forces it. I create it inside the folder containing the pictures I'm working on - a holiday, containing say 7000 jpgs & raws perhaps. I convert the raws to DNGs, which will contain the edits within each individual DNG without needing a catalogue or xmps. I manage and view all my photos with ACDSee. LR is an absolutely appalling program for photo management. I can delete or lose a catalogue without a second thought.
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Funny that I moved the other way (ACDSee to LR) and haven't looked back :shrug: I admit at first sight / experience LR doesn't seem to cut it BUT given a bit of learning and I wouldn't go backwards :)

Ah well each to his own, though to be honest I'm interested in LR and folks who use it who can help me. I don't understand from your post WHY LightRoom is in your workflow if it is of no use to you? By all means expand and enlighten the community if you wish.
 
Mikesphotaes,

72242 tells me what I want to know however are you using some Goliath of a system compared to mine?
 
Chappers said:
61,000 images across 2 drives ( external ) soon to become 3. No problems all in one catalogue
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Chappers, Thank You :love:....I'd much rather stick with one catalogue like you as it provides search capability across my entire domain. Good news...thanks :cool:

Jamie
 
shoshone said:
I don't understand from your post WHY LightRoom is in your workflow if it is of no use to you? By all means expand and enlighten the community if you wish.
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I didn't say LR was of no use to me. I use LR for processing (and Photoshop too sometimes). It's the catalogues that are of no importance to me - not the program. I find ACDSee is better for organising, renaming, viewing, and in this respect, for me, out of every photo management program (and I've tried them all) it is unsurpassed. It's not perfect, and it has glitches. But I have no wish to use its processing.

Many people have complained about Lightroom's organisational capabilities and the difficulty they encountered in doing the simplest of things, and these questions even now regularly crop up. Individually, LR and ACDSee don't work for me in doing everything, but together they complement each other and work well together.
 
Fairysnuff MisterE I'm still having to ask LR questions on here that should be easy and turn out to be easy when you know how ;)
 
I only keep my keepers (and works in progress) in Lightroom these days, my archive is stashed away somewhere else. So only about 5000 images in my catalogues.
 
18631 across 2 drives but I need to have a good sort through, last seasons football can sit on archive discs now as they really aren't needed (pretty much changed the whole team now so no one will want any shots :p)
 
My catalog is a svelte 18,000 images. Massively down from the original 30,000 after a cull of duds.
 
42,000 images on internal 1TB drive (LR Catalogue) and backed up on an external 1TB network drive. These are also burnt onto DVD.
 
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