Having a seperate catalog just for searching.
I'd appreciate some feedback on these ideas.
Firstly I have a lot of pictures going back for many years, I am scanning the film stuff at the moment so the numbers will be big in the end.
I'd like to be able to find all my images easily but I'm reticent to use one big catalogue due to the eventual size with the 2560 previews I generate.
It is highly likely the a lot of these pictures will never see the light of day so what I am thinking of doing is creating a Catalogue for all of the files but with a much smaller preview size to keep the size down and make it faster. This would be simply to locate the files. I'd then import them into specific catalogues if they were needed.
PS Could I, and would it be better to use Bridge for this.
Firstly I have a lot of pictures going back for many years, I am scanning the film stuff at the moment so the numbers will be big in the end.
I'd like to be able to find all my images easily but I'm reticent to use one big catalogue due to the eventual size with the 2560 previews I generate.
It is highly likely the a lot of these pictures will never see the light of day so what I am thinking of doing is creating a Catalogue for all of the files but with a much smaller preview size to keep the size down and make it faster. This would be simply to locate the files. I'd then import them into specific catalogues if they were needed.
PS Could I, and would it be better to use Bridge for this.
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This will only work with referenced images, and will probably work best if you don't do Meta data syncing with the search catalog.
I would make a trial run with most of the images, before investing a lot of effort in refining it. If the trial works then go ahead.
Currently there are some speed issues on OSX with large catalogs, at least one is related to Metadata structure. It seems some users but not all are affected.
I think Capture One is working to address these issues but there is no expected date. I think the changes under the hood may be non-trivial.0
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