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I would appreciate comments on catalog strategy from those of you with more experience exercising PSE to its limits.
Question A: I want to know if using a modest number of multiple catalogs (vs. one big catalog) will have a positive impact on two concerns: 1. performance, and 2. risk reduction. Tag searches with 4K photos already take noticeable time and I’m assuming that smaller catalogs will improve that. Also, I’ve read chilling stories here about losing catalogs due to data corruption, bugs, etc. and I assume that separate catalogs will minimize that risk, or at least limit the impact to one catalog.
Question B: Will the following work to create multiple catalogs? I have one catalog now — My Catalog (=family + vacation1). I will want family stuff in one catalog and vacation1 in another and vacation2 (still in the cameras) in another. Vacation2 is easy — just create a new catalog (=Vacation2), download the pictures, create tags, etc. For the other two I plan to do File–>Catalog–>Save As and save a copy of My Catalog as Vacation1. Then go into Vacation1 and delete all the database entries for family pictures (but not the pictures themselves!). Then go into My Catalog and delete all the database entries for vacation1 (but not those pictures!). Then get rid of tags that don’t point to anything. (Obviously back everything up before and after.)
Question A: I want to know if using a modest number of multiple catalogs (vs. one big catalog) will have a positive impact on two concerns: 1. performance, and 2. risk reduction. Tag searches with 4K photos already take noticeable time and I’m assuming that smaller catalogs will improve that. Also, I’ve read chilling stories here about losing catalogs due to data corruption, bugs, etc. and I assume that separate catalogs will minimize that risk, or at least limit the impact to one catalog.
Question B: Will the following work to create multiple catalogs? I have one catalog now — My Catalog (=family + vacation1). I will want family stuff in one catalog and vacation1 in another and vacation2 (still in the cameras) in another. Vacation2 is easy — just create a new catalog (=Vacation2), download the pictures, create tags, etc. For the other two I plan to do File–>Catalog–>Save As and save a copy of My Catalog as Vacation1. Then go into Vacation1 and delete all the database entries for family pictures (but not the pictures themselves!). Then go into My Catalog and delete all the database entries for vacation1 (but not those pictures!). Then get rid of tags that don’t point to anything. (Obviously back everything up before and after.)
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