P: Multiple catalog syncing

Hi VIctoria, I've read many of your articles about Lightroom but I must say this discussion is not where it should be about. LR classic still lacks performance on big catalogues and that is where this thread is all about. LR users are looking for ways to improve the performance of LR. LR offers them this in splitting catalogues. With the arrival of LR in the cloud the problem of multiple catalogues popped up as it is in this discussion. As I said before, get LR on par with other software and there will be no need anymore for multiple catalogues. Kind Regards, Frans van Velzen

Support rep was wrong, they're regularly tested with big catalogs and 3000 is tiny. 7 million is big, and not tested as regularly, but 100,000 is really quite normal.

Rikk,

here’s what a support rep posts to me - word to word - via your twitter support handle - we were troubleshooting the cause of poor performance and extreme CPU usage when merely switching from the library to the develop module :

“Hi there,

Please refer the following link to check the minimum system requirements of Lightroom. https://helpx.adobe.com/in/lightroom/...

We may not have such big catalogs like you. You can create a new catalog and add few hundred images into it and check the performance.”

Background: in my previous image I had mentioned that I have performance problems with merely 3000 images in my test catalog.

Your support team is telling me that it’s not tested on more than a few hundred images per catalog, but your comments urge us to put everything into a single catalog. What’s gong on?

There are various deficiencies in the mobile catalog sync offering, for example, there are no color labels on mobile. 
The limitation of just one catalog is the second biggest deficiency. 
If Adobe is unwilling to  make multiple catalogs syncable, the catalog sync feature is irrelevant for a lot of cases. It is plain silly to expect that people will keep decades of photos in one catalog. No one wants to access a gazillion photos on mobile. When a person is using LR on mobile, they are focused on a subset of their entire body of work, and that subset is easier defined as a catalog.  
Without the ability to sync multiple catalogs, this whole catalog sync aspect is just a gimmick. 

Im one of those guys who has multiple catalogs trying to keep personal and business separate.  I would like to see in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC Mobile work together to sync the multiple catalogs so when Im done editing to sync the catalogs to mobile to when Im with family I can show pictures from the family catalog and in business opportunities to show the business catalog...  I don't want to stick them all together in one..

ADOBE FIX THIS NOW!!! I'M LOSING MONEY AND TIME!!!! 

This is not a good workaround I'm sorry. How much money do we have to spend already on cloud storage. I paid a subscription for LR, PS, and CC mobile. I really shouldn't have to use 3rd party cloud services with crazy workarounds. Adobe needs to get off their lazy asses and IMPLEMENT multi-cat syncing. It has been YEARS with complaints!

Rikk the Dick. Listen, I had to split my large monolithic catalog that had 60k images. I am a working professional and take too many shots for a single catalog. Lightroom ran soooo slow that it was counter intuitive and I was not at all happy about adjustment brushes, scrolling, and changing modules that took too long. It slowed down my workflow immensely and was extremely frustrating. I just created a new catalog today and imported ~1k of RAW images with standard previews. I can ensure you that it runs very smooth. Since I shoot such a high volume of photos, I need to make a new catalog monthly. It is unbelievable that Adobe cannot sync other catalogs. I used to cull and flag on public transit so when I got home it was just editing. And wtf is Lightroom CC!? I tried it for a minute and uninstalled promptly. This was by far the stupidest decision Adobe made. They should focus more on their professional devoted client base not try to sell and appeal to people that use cell phones and instagram! It took me quite some time to devise this new workflow and when I went to sync and got that message, I was in disbelief! Why is this so damn hard to implement!? At this point there is no way I'm editing with my bulky main catalog it is too slow. Adobe is going to go out of business if they keep insulting pros.

If you're not finding Lightroom stable when opening a catalog with over 10,000 photos lacoL, post a thread describing the issues and your system specs. That's something worth investigating.

Given my work flow I do not find Lightroom stable when opening a catalog with over 10,000 photos. Single catalogs allow me to work this way but the way LR does it now is not beneficial to the end user. I vote for a catalog to be like an album when syncing.