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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Why does LR CC switch to "Add" after importing files? | |
graham_martin wrote:
Ian, I do in fact have tons of catalogs. I am going to give your system a try going forward. Anything that will make things more efficient and save time is certainly worth a go.
Having multiple catalogues might work for you, but tons isn't a good idea. The beauty of LR is that you can catalogue everything together, but still create collections.
Lots of ways to create those collections. One is to make sure that your collections all share a unique keyword, and you can then create a smart folder collection everything with that keyword. Or you cam create a manual collection for every batch of photos for which you would previously have created a catalogue.
I prefer, as do many LR users, to use LR for the sorting, and just have all your actual images on the disk in one big directory broken down into folders by date (which is how LR will do it by default). This makes it much easier to back up all your actual image image files - it's a nightmare if they are all over the place on your HD.
Then, provided you regularly also backup the catalogue (another reason not to have too many catalogues: each needs backup) you should be golden. Remember the catalogue does not contain the images, just the information about the images. The catalogue needs to be backed up separately from the image files (LR will remind you about the catalogue, but not the image files)
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