Protecting or Hiding photos?

[joshua]

In the spirit of some earlier discussions, I've opted to put all of my photos into one large catalog... 18k+ photos and running pretty well. This brings up a new issue... I've recently taken some pictures for a client that are definitely NSFW, let alone really anyone else's eyes without their approval. I'd like to be able to keep these out of even accidentally showing up if I'm browsing thru Lightroom w/ another client, family, etc...

Any thoughts on how to effective hide (ideally password protect) certain images from being displayed within Lightroom without explicitly deciding to view them.

Thoughts?

 

[rcannonp]

The single catalog thing is just a generally good idea. It's not the law. If you have something that no one else should ever see(ever!), then keep it separate. If you want to get nuts about it, you could create an encrypted disk image and save a new catalog with the pics to that.

 

[joshua]

Yeah, I wasn't taking it into "law" per se... just thought it made some good sense and thought that a LR feature to PW protect certain images would be cool. Disk Image a great idea... thanks!

 

[Brad Snyder]

Joshua, I've seen similar requests in the past. You might want to stop by

LR Feature Request

and make a wish. Can't hurt, may help ...