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Subject: [Leica] How big is your Lightroom catalogue?, Now Also: iMac Performance
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:31:53 +0200
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Hi Bob,

My statement "generally behaves" referred to Lightroom. The iMac behaves 
impeccably. I have not had to reboot it (other than when a software update 
required it) in the 2 years I have had it.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.nathanfoto.com
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/


YNWA











On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Robert Baron wrote:

> Nathan, in his book Martin Evening suggests keeping to one catalogue if
> possible, primarily I understand for ease of keyword searching, which is
> what I'm doing. I've only got a little over 18,000 images in mine; I have 
> it
> in mind he discusses having a main catalogue of around 95,000, although he
> does archive older catalogues in some fashion.
> 
> On another front: when you say your iMac 'generally' behaves, what happens
> when it doesn't? How often is that?
> 
> I'm seeing some good deals on some just previous generation iMacs and my 
> 4.5
> year old XP Pro Desktop is just not fully up to these newer programs I'm
> afraid.  See for example http://tinyurl.com/3pj2tjs
> 
> --Bob
> 
> ==On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
> frozenlight.eu>wrote:
> 
>> Mine is a bit over 24000 now, still loads fast and generally behaves 
>> itself
>> on my iMac with 4GB RAM.
>> 
>> There are people here (Tina?) who must have many more images in their LR
>> catalogues. Just curious.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> 
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>> YNWA
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