judderman62
Member
- Lightroom Version Number
- 6
- Operating System
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
Hi Folks,
I apologise that this may end up being quite a long post but hope you will bear with me.
I have some questions I'd like to ask about ways of using Lightroom viz a viz storage of images.
I have recently purchased a new iMac, my previous one having had a hard drive on it's way out.
The Spec of my new mac is as follows:
The hard drive is a 3tb fusion drive.
My Lightroom catalogue is over 66,000 images.
I have 2 Seagate 4tb external drives. One I use as a total computer backup via time machine, the other I have saved only my photos on.
I did a little research a little while ago into the merits of having one catalogue or breaking down into smaller catalogues. Most advice seemed to favour one catalogue for up to 150,000 images while another went as far as to say only split into smaller ones if one's catalogue went above 4 million images. What are peoples opinions on this, please? I suspect for my collection one catalogue will suit for some years to come yet.
I guess the two scenarios I am looking at for the storing of my catalogue are:
1) Keep the catalogue and images on the Mac's main drive. I was led to believe this would offer the quickest performance by the computer store where I purchased the second of my Seagate drives.
2) Keep the catalogue on the Mac's drive but the actual images on the second Seagate drive.
I had also considered just keeping everything on the Seagate external but the guy at the store suggested lightroom would run noticeably slower doing this.
From my conversation with said chap, I suspect that option 1 above is likely to be the best way.
What would you guys advise as my best option with the gear I already possess.
I did find with my previous Mac that as time went on Lightroom did slow down some and that's why I am looking for possible alternative ways of working. The new Mac is higher spec'd than my previous one so hopefully that will show some difference.
Another question I have is: Are there things I could / should be doing to keep Lightroom running at maximum efficiency?
Any / all other advise, pointers etc will be very welcomed and I thank you for bearing with me on this.
Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
Mike (aka Judderman(
I apologise that this may end up being quite a long post but hope you will bear with me.
I have some questions I'd like to ask about ways of using Lightroom viz a viz storage of images.
I have recently purchased a new iMac, my previous one having had a hard drive on it's way out.
The Spec of my new mac is as follows:
The hard drive is a 3tb fusion drive.
My Lightroom catalogue is over 66,000 images.
I have 2 Seagate 4tb external drives. One I use as a total computer backup via time machine, the other I have saved only my photos on.
I did a little research a little while ago into the merits of having one catalogue or breaking down into smaller catalogues. Most advice seemed to favour one catalogue for up to 150,000 images while another went as far as to say only split into smaller ones if one's catalogue went above 4 million images. What are peoples opinions on this, please? I suspect for my collection one catalogue will suit for some years to come yet.
I guess the two scenarios I am looking at for the storing of my catalogue are:
1) Keep the catalogue and images on the Mac's main drive. I was led to believe this would offer the quickest performance by the computer store where I purchased the second of my Seagate drives.
2) Keep the catalogue on the Mac's drive but the actual images on the second Seagate drive.
I had also considered just keeping everything on the Seagate external but the guy at the store suggested lightroom would run noticeably slower doing this.
From my conversation with said chap, I suspect that option 1 above is likely to be the best way.
What would you guys advise as my best option with the gear I already possess.
I did find with my previous Mac that as time went on Lightroom did slow down some and that's why I am looking for possible alternative ways of working. The new Mac is higher spec'd than my previous one so hopefully that will show some difference.
Another question I have is: Are there things I could / should be doing to keep Lightroom running at maximum efficiency?
Any / all other advise, pointers etc will be very welcomed and I thank you for bearing with me on this.
Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
Mike (aka Judderman(