How big is your catalog?

Fellow LR explorers...
What's the largest number of images in your catalog? What's the biggest catalog file you have?
I've got one catalog with 77,000+ images, and I'm starting to get nervous. Am I out on the great frontier?
Only a portion of these are raw. Yes, I'm trying it out as a DAM tool, and so far it's "dam" convenient.
Anyway, what's your biggest?
Love to hear.
diane

There are plenty of reasons for a Lightroom catalog to act slow, and the size of the catalog would be waaaaaay down the list of suspects.
There is no optimum catalog size. People in this forum (and other Lightroom forums) report much bigger catalogs running without problems.
The first thing to do is optimize the catalog. File->Optimize Catalog
The next thing to do is make sure the catalog is on your fastest disk (which is usually the internal disk). If not move it there.
After that, it would sure help if you told us exactly what functions of the catalog are "quite sluggish", as that would help diagnosing what steps might help speeding things up. Stating your operating system, whether it is 32 bits or 64 bits, the version of Lightroom, the amount of memory is also mandatory information for diagnosing the problem. You might also want to take a look at this: Performance hints

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