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tommmi wrote:
This is exactly what happened to me once. I was using Lightroom 4 or some other quite ancient LR and the database file containing all the starring, tags etc. just corrupted and refused to open. I had to start all over again. I was more aware of Lightroom catalog backups after that. Now I use XnView and save all star ratings, tags and other metadata to the photo files itself, thus preventing mass corruption of information.
In addition, I use folder based system nowadays. On the root level of my photos folder, I have folder for each year, and folder for certain categories, like "Trips & Travel", "Pets", "Parties & Celebration" etc. The yearly folders are my backlog - I'm going through them started from 2005, and organizing them slowly but steadily to these category folders. Some of the photos I feel like keeping, but doesn't suit any certain category, I just leave to the yearly folders.
That was a good tip to use the star rating as folders for each star. I think I will start use that too for folders and occasions that are harder to delete photos (like the deceased family members and pets - it is very hard to me to delete this kind of photos).
This is my philosophy today, too. I'm keeping only the jpeg's after editing, actually I have done that back in the days too for some rare cases and I haven't regretted this approach.
In general, I try to keep things simple, and I think this approach keeps the catalog very clean and curated. I hope so, at least..
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My folder organization is simply YYYYMMDD_name_of_project. Within that are folders for raw selects, raw outtakes, processed versions of the raw selects and a copy of the LR catalog. I save all LR processing settings to each file before finishing a project to ensure the edits/metadata are saved to the file or accompanying XMP sidecar file. I have separate HDDs that are for jobs, sports, travel, family & friends, etc. But I also have another set of HDDs that are simply everything in chronological order, and duplicates of these are the 'back ups' to the more organized drives. That's as far as I go sorting images by genre at the root/folder level on the HDD - I actually prefer by date, but that's me. Personal work I also upload to Google Photos in addition to other cloud back ups (Amazon's AWS, in addition to HDD back ups). I like Google Photos for how it is searchable by image content without having to maintain a true local photo database that is only as good as the keywording of the photos (which I'm 99% too lazy to do most of the time, however I do apply generically descriptive captions to all images - a habit from my newspaper days). That said, I use NeoFinder as my DAM rather than Lightroom. Initially it was simply to catalog my many HDDs so I would know where things are, how many copies there are, etc. It doesn't seem to get bogged down by hundreds of thousands of database items and it creates a database for each HDD. Therefore if one corrupts, it doesn't take down the entire database (it searches across these separate databases and is a seamless process from a user POV).
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Anyway, my point is to focus your efforts on the 10-15% of images in a group you want to keep and quickly move the others someplace where they won't be in the way.