- Lightroom Version Number
- 10.2 Camera Raw 13.2
- Operating System
- macOS 11 Big Sur
I'm using a swell brand new Mac mini with Big Sur maxed out at 16GB memory and 1TB hard drive. I've been using LR since the original test versions. Over the years, I've just gone out and bought external hard drives and just dumped all my photos there, including catalogues etc. It's a mess, not well organized at all, just copy and dump, with the satisfaction of knowing I just had them backed up. This has multiplied until now and I have about 10 of these 3, 5 and 8TB drives and no real idea of what's on them. I'm a prolific photographer from way back so the last import I tried at over 400K images. It did fine until about 180K, then the beachball of death set it. I know I'm pushing it but is there any way to manage this? It would be great if LRC could just import based on dates, so I could just create a new catalogue for each year, but I don't see any way to do that. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm open to new ideas.