How many photos can you have in a catalog

I am currently using elements 10 on Mac.  Every year I create a new catalog since there are 20,000+ photos per year.  I thought it would be easier to manage that way.  I have been creating a new catalog folder where the catalogs are saved, and then copy all the files from last year into the new year.  Then I have open elements go into the new catalog and delete all the thumb nails that were from the previous year.  This is a very slow process since it won't let me do too many at once.  Also, Elements 10 is not working that well on Yosemite so I am thinking of upgrading to elements 13.  My bottom line question is, do I really need to have more than one catalog?

We'll have a look at three different issues.
- If you want to carry over your tags structure from one catalog to a new one created for the new year, use the small dropdown menu in the title bar of the keywords panel. There is an option to copy the tags and categories structure to a text file. There is another option you'll use when you have created the new empty catalog: it will recreate the same structure of categories and keywords.
- The catalog is hidden by default. I don't know if you can make that folder visible in the Mac, but you can move or copy it to another visible location in your file structure from the finder.  The catalog copy will be found in 'custom' location from the catalog manager. Alternatively, you can shut the Organizer and double click on the catalog.pse10db file to open the organizer with the catalog copy.
- I have already reported the bug about not being able to delete a big number of files at the same time. It's sort of acknowledged, but without any clear hope of solution. When I upgraded to PSE13 in Windows, I could see that there was an improvement due to the fact that it is now a 64 bits application which can use all of my 8 GB RAM. The problem is that the process uses all the available RAM progressively, and aborts when there is no more. So, we should avoid workflows implying mass deletions.

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