Catalog Split?

So far most of my non client pics are contained within one catalog and it is
rather large. Even though I have the folders which contain the pics sorted
by date and then what was shot, it still is getting larger than I want and
my thought is to now split it up by year.
With this said, I have explored around the forums and the help file to no
avail although I did notice the option under the file menu to 'export
catalog', but I am not sure that will accomplish what I am after. Basically
I just want to take things the way they stand now with any and all
adjustments, etc... and move all folders that start with '2008' in a '2008'
catalog and so on. How can I easily and successfully achieve this without
issue(s)?
Any and all help is much appreciated!

Thanks for the response. Guess my concern is that having 'all my eggs in one basket' may haunt me one day. Am I correct in assuming this? The reason I ask is because the nature of the second paragraph of your response seemed to indicate that splitting this up may not be a good idea. Only reason I had thought it may be was because of items I had read on this forum. Can other users please interject? Thanks much. <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. > Use Export as Catalog, unticking the Include Negatives option. Then remove > those files from your main catalogue. > > Next time you want to search by a particular keyword, remember to search > through all your catalogues because your work is now scattered into > different ones. Remember that now there's no one keyword list, their > spellings may vary or they may be plural or singular in different > catalogues. Remember that any collections of similar or related images are > now broken up among different catalogues. Next time a new version of LR > requires a catalogue update, remember to update all your catalogues. And > try to figure out how much you really gained by breaking up control of > your pictures into all those catalogues.... > > John

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Having imported all of my image library into Lightroom as one catalog, I've realised that it would be more convenient to break this large catalog into several smaller ones. I am unsure how to best achieve this.
Should I (or Can I) after creating a new catalog, move the relevant images and their folders from the original catalog into the new catalog, or do I delete them from the original catalog first before re-importing them into the new catalog? If the second option is correct, will the images retain the keywords and edit adjustments made when they were in the original catalog?
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Mahombi wrote:
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