Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think for the larger amount of body of work you are dealing with its larger than what Lightroom is normally geared to but I bet it could do it if you had a big Mac-Pro instead of a laptop or other kind of smaller one. Assuming you don't have one already. https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/ Me I prefer to not have my body of work tied up with Lightroom for these kinds of reasons. I'm working off a laptop. And am doing ok with Adobe Bridge. On 1/31/14 9:43 AM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote: > PESO: > > I haven't commented on photos lately because I can't get to them. My main > computer is tied up with LR. After reading Peter Krogh's latest book on > digital management, I decided to divide my photos into two LR catalogs > instead of one huge one. I made one for Archive photos and kept the > original catalog for Current photos. That part went fine. Then I had to > remove all of the Archive photos from the the Current catalog. LR worked > on it for two days, I left it working when I went to Charleston. When I > came back it was 88% finished, but I got a notice that my computer was > dangerously low on memory and was shutting down. I had to start all over > again. Now it's been working for three days and is 85% finished. I have > shut down everything else on the computer, including e-mail. I'm using my > little Acer netbook for e-mail. LR is using 99% of the physical memory - > 8GB. I had over 500,000 photos in the one catalog and am trying to remove > 175,000. I guess I should have done it in smaller amounts. > > The Acer is too small and slow to look at photos, but I'll catch up > someday. > > Any suggestions besides throwing the computer out the window would be > greatly appreciated. I can't even download the photos I took in > Charleston!! > > Tina > . -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/