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<blockquote data-quote="GracieAllen" data-source="post: 597630" data-attributes="member: 41283">Danno, I'm not sure I'd create a new catalog every year...&nbsp; I haven't seen any improvement in performance with a catalog with only 10,000 images versus one with 100,000 or so.&nbsp; I know of others with over a million images in a single catalog.&nbsp; But, I, and most of those folks are using SSDs for the catalog and multiple, fast drives in RAID 0 configurations to speed access.&nbsp; Having each year in a separate catalog makes searches really limited unless you're looking by date...&nbsp; At least for me it would since I largely search by keyword and there may be images from any of 10+ years that fit the keywords.&nbsp; It would be nice if Lightroom would allow searching across catalogs, but until they do (which I suspect they won't), I generally recommend to people that choose to organize by date (ignoring the umpteen entries on the Internet that claim it's a terrible way to organize) to use a single catalog and just use a folder structure based on year/month or year/month/day...&nbsp; But, as always, everybody does things slightly differently, to fit what works best for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GracieAllen, post: 597630, member: 41283"] Danno, I'm not sure I'd create a new catalog every year... I haven't seen any improvement in performance with a catalog with only 10,000 images versus one with 100,000 or so. I know of others with over a million images in a single catalog. But, I, and most of those folks are using SSDs for the catalog and multiple, fast drives in RAID 0 configurations to speed access. Having each year in a separate catalog makes searches really limited unless you're looking by date... At least for me it would since I largely search by keyword and there may be images from any of 10+ years that fit the keywords. It would be nice if Lightroom would allow searching across catalogs, but until they do (which I suspect they won't), I generally recommend to people that choose to organize by date (ignoring the umpteen entries on the Internet that claim it's a terrible way to organize) to use a single catalog and just use a folder structure based on year/month or year/month/day... But, as always, everybody does things slightly differently, to fit what works best for them. [/QUOTE]

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