Backup tips for 100,000+ images/yr

I shoot roughly 100,000 images a year and I am on the road quite a bit. I am currently using a Macbook Pro w/256GB SSD so space is limited. I pretty much just keep the images from the current week before I move them to a backup drive.
Any suggestions to access the archive on the road? I currently have a few Travel HD's that are roughly 2TB each. I often get requests where I need to access a specific RAW file when I am out of town. Any Cloud based solutions? Should I explore a home server?

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100,000 images?

Last fall, I was shooting beside a friend who teaches Aperture at various shows and events. He mentioned rumors of LR having problems with the database files once the catalog reaches 100,000 images. At the time, I probably only had 75,000 images in my main catalog, but I am now just over the number. I upgraded to 3.0 just in case the story was true, and hoping Adobe would have fixed the problem if there ever was one. So, was he spreading a bad rumor? Was there really a problem? And if there was a problem in 2.x, is it now resolved in 3.x?
Are there people here with well over 100,000 images in their catalogs?
Thanks in advance,
M. Jackson

John,
Thanks for the response. Sounds like the 100,000 barrier might just be a rumor if people have 275,000 in LR2. After I heard it, I kept watching for posts with similar concerns and haven't seen it. The guy who told me is an active wildlife photographer and is around lots of people with plenty of experience using LR. He went on to say Apple had a different way of maintaining the database than Adobe, making it more reliable. I put more faith in the comment than some comments I might hear in the field.
Back when I was building my first catalogs, people here said they knew of people with 90,000 images in their catalogs and going strong. That gave me the courage to continue with just one main catalog. At something like 101,000, I started to hear the echo of that warning.
Take care,
M. Jackson

MatchCode for 100.000 rows = dump

Hi!
I use FM F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUEST for a personal matchcode in a dynpro field.
But if the internal table has got 100.000 rows, the system dump.
How can I do for display the match code without dump?
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A matchcode where you have more than 100.000 rows is not a good matchcode !
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Tips for avoiding "noisy" images in low-light

Hi all,
I noticed that there are a lot of users here who are complaining of noisy images especially in low-light. I'm not a professional photographer or anything but I have been playing a lot with the camera of my Xperia Z1 and I did have noisy images also at first.
Here is my tip: Use these settings:
Go to Manual Mode.
Shoot in either 8MP 4:3 or 16:9 (don't worry about not making use of the 20MP, because its still doing oversampling to improve the quality of the 8MP image by making use of the whole 20MP sensor).
Set Stabilizer to off
ISO to Auto (if you prefer more detailed images, set ISO to a lower value but take note of the exposure of the image and that there is a chance of motion blur due to the longer shutter speed necessary to capture low light at low ISO)
WB Auto (or your preference).
With the setting I use above, I've seen improvements on low-light capability (indoors, artificial lighting, or night outdoor scene for example) and quality of my camera pictures. Note though that this will not be applicable for extreme low-light. Its very normal to capture really noisy images when shooting in extreme low-light (even my dedicated compact camera has troubles too).
Here is my theory why its taking noisy images by default. In Superior Auto, I analyzed the EXIF data of the pictures I've shot. It seems that Superior Auto is really excessive in bumping up the ISO (thus resulting in more noisy images) to compensate for having a faster shutter speed (reduced motion blur). Thus what you get is a noisy image that is bright and freezes the motion. For example, test it out that in Superior Auto, even minute movements of the phone will trigger the Sports Mode (running man icon near the button) prioritizing a faster shutter speed at the cost of a higher ISO.
Another reason I have for turning off the Stabilizer in Manual Mode is the same. In contrast to Steady Shot used in recording movies (sensor based shift to compensate for handshake movements), I think the Stabilizer option basically just bumps up the ISO also to compensate for handshake movements. I"m not entirely 100% sure but so far, I've been satisfied with taking images with the Stabilizer Off.
Please feel free to test it out and report the results if there have been improvements. I'm still testing it out too! One of the things I wish for Sony to put in the Camera App are just these 3 things:
1.) Holding Shutter Key will open the Camera app with the LAST CONFIGURED SETTINGS
2.) Maximum ISO can be set in Manual Mode
3.) Scene AUTO mode for Manual Mode (I know it might be redundant but it would be nice to have Auto mode for 4:3 orientation images).
Again, hope to hear from others what are their settings or if they notice any improvements in images captured.
Thanks!

Hi, there is a FAQ related to this topic.
http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/Capture-better-photos-in-low-light-conditions/m-p/395397#U395397
Don't forget to mark correct answer as Accepted Solution.
If you find the post helpful, press Kudos.

100,000+ "image" files in Address Book's home Library folder

I was backing up my home folder and noticed that the directory ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Images had 105,619 files taking up over 800 MB of space. I was wondering if anyone else has had this "problem" (I'm not sure what to call it...)

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Sorry about the delay in replying to your last message, but I've had a print deadline to meet, which always puts everything else on hold.
I've opened a few of the .abcdp files with Text Edit and the information is in there, buried among loads of code, so many thanks for telling me that. I've beamed the address book from my other half's Palm (which used to be mine) over to mine, so I should have most of the current contacts which I hope I can transfer onto the iMac. The missing ones, distant members of my family for instance, I will have to search for in the .abcdp files and enter manually into AB (always remembering to take a backup regularly!).
Unfortunately I don't know anyone with a Mac running Leopard, in fact I only know one other person with a Mac. We freed ourselves from the thralldom of the PC only three years ago and are still the odd ones out with colleagues and friends. Having the Macs has made using a computer enjoyable for the first time in 25 years, ever since we bought a Commodore 700 and I began the daily struggle with various pieces of user-hostile software.
Many thanks for helping me out. I've put Snow Leopard at the top of my shopping list by the way.
Regards
Susan

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Managing 100,000+ images

I have 50,000 of my own images, plus 50,000 stock shot images on CDs that I've purchased.
What's the best way to organize these so that I can easily work with just the stock shots or just my own images?
Thanks,
Michael

Once you go above 100K images you'll find you have problems querying the whole library. Smart Albums and any filters work on folder structures that have less than 100K images beneath them, but fail once they try to query 100K+ images.
So, two options:
Two separate libraries with each collection.
or
One library with a couple of parent folders - one folder containing a sub-heirarchy of your own stuff, and the other a hierarchy of the stock shots.
Either way, you can't run a single query/smart album across the whole lot .
Hope they fix the feature soon. (It's a deliberate bug/feature, not an inherant one as the * rating filters still work on 100K+ !).

Installing Lightroom 5 for first time. Chose standard previews of the 100,000+ photos on removable hard drive. Lightroom stopped creating previews after the first 10,000 or so pictures. Don't see how to start it moving forward again. Thanks!

I think I did everything correctly. Moved pictures to the external drive as per Microsoft's instructions for Windows 8. All worked fine. Everything else in Lightroom seems to work fine. However, it just stopped creating standard size previews.

Glad you had success. You can check to see how many preview files have been built by checking the Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews.lrdata folder with File Explorer:
/Users/[user name]/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews.lrdata
Right-click on the folder and select 'Properties.' Next to 'Contains' will be the file count representing the number of built previews. It should be the same as the number of pictures (100,000) or slightly more.
Creating previews for 100,000 image files will take a long time! My Windows 7 i7-860 processor system with 21 mp Canon 5D MKII raw files takes about 3 seconds to build one standard preview. Using this number for 100,000 previews:
100,000 x 3 seconds = 300,000 sec. = 5,000 min. = 83 hours = 3.5 days!

Import Time for 45,000 Photos

Hi there.
Im new to Mac and also Aperture.
I'm importing my 45,000 photo colection that I have stored on an external hard drive into Aperture.
I am setting it up as a referenced library and am using a 1TB drive i grabbed from my PC which is now in a USB3.0 casing.
I have a rMBP 2.6Ghz with 8MB ram.
I have tried a couple times to import and then walk away and it seems to be choking. The computer I think is going into sleep mode (its plugged in) and then when I wake it up..it begins to pick up importing again. At least I think it is....I cant really tell and the "processing" status window isnt really giving me useful information.
My question is how long something like this should take to import? Ive tried a couple times and even left it overnight.
Also should I maybe try importing in smaller batches?
Any help would be great.
Thanks!

Eric-
Organize into Projects first and import one Project at a time like Léonie suggested; it should only take a couple of minutes to import each Project. Personally I set 500 as my arbitrary maximum number of images in each Project but your mileage will vary. Experiment to see what number of maximum images in a Project may or may not slow your particular setup/workflow down; my guess is that 500-image projects will be fine unless maybe you are shooting a D800 or if there are scan files involved.
Please let us know how many image files of what size you find you can import in a reasonable time (less than 5 minutes). E.g. X files per minute at a certain file size. I am curious. You may find 1000-image-sized Projects work fine; or you may find that the import rate slows significantly when Project size exceeds 150 image files.
Before importing you should:
• Back up the originals before importing into Aperture. This is an absolutely essential step to a safe workflow.
• Decide what keywords to batch-apply to each Project.
From an earlier post of mine on this topic:
Projects should be just that: individual-shoot (i.e. time) based projects rather than some kind of organizing tool for all the architectural photos or whatever. For performance reasons personally I keep each Project under 500 20-MB images, making a second Project if the shoot is large. E.g.
110829_KJones_Wed_A,
110829_KJones_Wed_B,
110829_KJones_Wed_C, etc.
One or more albums will always organize the KJones wedding pix together anyway. All three Projects (110829_KJones_Wed_A, 110829_KJones_Wed_B, 110829_KJones_Wed_C) would have the keyword "KJones_Wed" applied to each pic, which allows an Album "KJones_Wed" to be quickly created at any time.
The way I look at it conceptually:
Aperture is a database (DB), and each image file lives in one Project.
Albums are just collections of Pointers that point to individual image files living in one or more Projects. Since they just contain pointers, albums can be created or deleted at will without affecting image files. Very powerful. And Albums of pointers take up almost zero space, so they are fast and do not make the Library size grow.
Keywords can be applied to every image separately or in batches. Keywords are hugely powerful and largely obviate the need for folders. Not that we should never use folders, just that we should use folders only when useful organizationally - - after first determining that using keywords and albums is not a better approach. Most of the time folders are inappropriately used.
As one example imagine the keyword "flowers." Every image of a 100,000 images Library that has some flowers in it has the keyword flowers. Then say we want to put flowers in an ad, or as background for a show of some kind, or to print pix for a party, or even just to look for an image for some other reason. We can find every flower image in a 100k-image database in 2 seconds, and in another few seconds create an Album called "Flowers" that points to all of those individual images.
Similarly all family pix can have a keyword "family" and all work pix can have a key word "work." Each individual pic may have any number of keywords. Such pic characteristics (work, family, flowers, etc.) should not be organized via folders.
So by using keywords and albums we can have instant access to every image everywhere, very cool. And keywords and albums essentially take up no space in the database.
Another (IMO poor) approach would be to use a folder "Family" for family pix, a folder "Flowers" for flowers pix and another folder "Work" for work pix. IMO such folders usage is a very poor approach to using an images database (probably stemming from old paper or film work practices). Note that one cannot put an image with family in a field of flowers at a work picnic in all three folders; but it is instant with keywords.
As an aside note that empirically many users find that even though the Aperture DB can contain hundreds of thousands of image files, no problem, individual Projects should be limited in size for speed reasons. Personally I limit Projects to a maximum of ~400 to ~500 RAW NEF files, but hardware and workflows vary.
HTH
-Allen

Cache problem is the limitation of 500,000 images. REMOVE

Mac Pro OSX 10.6 thru 10.9.
I have Bridge CS6.
I have a DEDICATED HARD DRIVE for nothing except Bridge Cache.
My problem is....
Bridge only allows for 500,000 images to be cached.
I have nearly 3 million image files.
1. Is there a way to remove this limitation?
If not....
PLEASE !!!!
Provide an option in Bridge Preferences that allows this limitation to be removed.
Simply include a Dialog Warning explaining that Bridge Cache can use up huge amounts of disk space.
Warn the user that this "No Limit" option requires a Dedicated Cache Hard Drive (internal or external) otherwise there will be crashes and hangs and the potential to use up a system boot drive's space.
For those of us who have more than 500,000 images, this change (suggested Bridge Upgrade) would be extremely helpful.
Please do not make me repeat myself.
I have a DEDICATED HARD DRIVE for nothing except Bridge Cache.
This Bride Cache Hard Drive is huge.
My only problem is the limitation of 500,000 images.
This restriction needs removal.

I understand your frustration, but then I'm not Adobe.
This is not a conduit to communicate with Adobe. Remember, you are not addressing Adobe here in the user forums. You are requesting help from volunteers users just like you who give their time free of charge.
Supposedly there are dedicated Adobe forums for feature requests and for reporting bugs. I lost track of where those are, probably because posting there is as futile as posting here.
Perhaps searching the forums directory or searching the forum itself may provide you with a link.

If you can figure this out, I will pay $100,000,000!!!

If anyone can figure out how to stream videos between itunes using the "shared library", I WILL PAY YOU 100,000,000!!!!! Any videos, even video podcasts. Stream between two itunes from mac to windows

aapl.up wrote:
If anyone can figure out how to stream videos between itunes using the "shared library", I WILL PAY YOU 100,000,000!!!!! Any videos, even video podcasts. Stream between two itunes from mac to windows
The answer is both easy and frustrating.
First the easy part.
1. Add the videos to iTunes on the Mac (you did say from Mac to PC)
2. If the video is a Music video, set the flag appropriately
3. Tell iTunes on the Mac to share its iTunes library over the network
4. Make sure either you share the entire library, or a playlist that includes the video(s)
5. Set the PC to look for shared libraries on the network
The above is probably obvious and you have probably done this. The next bit is to address the cause of the problem.
First, I have various music videos acquired from different sources. Some from the iTunes Store before they started charging for them, some from other sites on the Internet. All are in QuickTime compatible format and hence all play locally in iTunes. However most of them do not work when I try and access them via iTunes Sharing.
Now I had a strong idea what the cause was but here are possible causes that could be considered
1. Its the wrong format (even if it can be played locally), i.e. not MPEG4 or H.264
2. Its the wrong pixel size or bit rate
3. It did not have the "Music Video" flag set
4. Its too long in duration or file size
5. It has not been prepared for streaming
To put you out of your misery it appears to be number 5. Now I had already suspected this because I had previously seen reports that FrontRow (on a Mac) had problems playing videos from another Mac if the video had not been prepared for streaming.
I have found two reasonably easy ways to convert videos so they are prepared for streaming.
1. If you have QuickTime Pro (for Mac or Windows) you can export the video using the QuickTime Player and in options in the export dialog box, set it to enable the streaming option.
2. If you select the video in iTunes itself, you can tell iTunes to convert it to iPod or AppleTV format, this will at the same time also set the streaming option
I tested both methods using a video that previously would not work between Mac and Windows iTunes sharing and both these solutions worked. This was tested using iTunes 7.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 and iTunes 7.4.2 on Windows XP Pro.
I look forward to receiving your cheque for $100,000,000

I've just bought a Macbook Pro 15" and I'm trying to use Photoshop, but the resolution its displaying the images at for 100% are too small. I have to design for the web, so need to be intricate with detail, but I'm finding it adjusts the resolution of the

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I tested both ways. With "open in low resolution" ckecked the size of the images is cool, but it is low-resolution including Photoshop appearance.
If "open in low resolution" is unckecked the appearance is good but the very small size.
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What size should the original image be for 100% width so it is responsive?

What size should the original image be for 100% width so it is responsive?

Please check these documents for details :
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https://helpx.adobe.com/muse/how-to/muse-size-resolution-graphics.html
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