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davidi87723608
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March 20, 2022
Question

Help with Organizing Catalogs in Lightroom Classic

  • March 20, 2022
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Hello

 

I am helping a friend with Lightroom Classic on an Imac (Monterey 12.2.1), managing to transfer 7500 RAW files to a “Library Catalog” on an 2TB external hard drive and freeing up a lot of his internal disk space.  

 

However I am essentially “flying by the seat of my pants” here.  I’m wondering if there are some good training resources that cover the finer points of Lightroom Classic organization - creating multiple catalogues, importing and exporting between catalogues, hard drive setups, etc.  Not only just how to do it, but what is the optimal setup for one’s particular workflow.  I’m more of a reader than a video person so that would be my preference.

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

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DdeGannes
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 21, 2022

There are several articles available at the link below to understand the use of Lightroom Classic Catalogs.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/blog/page/9/

 

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.3; PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 20, 2022

Do not create multiple catalogs. Lightroom is designed to use one single catalog. You can organize the images using keywords, collections and smart collections.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
davidi87723608
Participant
March 20, 2022
OK I can put everything in one catalog. This guy has at least a half dozen
old catalogs rattling around in his system. Can I just delete them?--
Photography Galleries: http://davidinman.smugmug.com
dj_paige
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March 21, 2022
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This guy has at least a half dozenold catalogs rattling around in his system. Can I just delete them?--Photography Galleries: http://davidinman.smugmug.com
By @davidi87723608

 

We don't know what is in those catalogs, so we can't say if you can delete them or not. You can find out however, by asking your friend, or by looking with your own eyes (or have your friend look with his own eyes) to see what is in them and see if you need them.