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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Where to start cataloging over 90,000 pictures. (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Correct_Signal_@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I’ve been taking pictures since I was a teenager now my kids have grown up an I have over 90k pics.

I’m also digitizing Slides, 8mm film, printed pic etc.

Any ideas on software , techniques, steps, cool ideas to organize this and maybe put them to some use ?

Thank you 🙏

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[–] uprightanimal@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

What do you mean LR makes virtual copies? Your original file remains intact; your LR edits are simply saved in the catalog. The .lrcat file is a sqlite database.

If you mean to say that LR doesn't save to the original files, that's correct. If the point is that all your edits are lost if you lose the catalog files, then yeah. Ask me how I learned that lesson...

I use LR almost exclusively to edit and organize my photos. True, it's not best used for file management, but it works perfectly for my needs. Once I have finished editing and ready to 'close' the catalog, I export xmp files to the same source folders.

I also don't know what you mean by "absolutely cannot move files later on"... You absolutely can. Even if you move the files using Windows Explorer, you can repoint the LR catalog to the new filepath.