Installed LR on a new Laptop, should I import the old catalog or start fresh?

Got a new laptop and re-installed LR and PS. Not sure If I should start with a new LR catalog or keep building on my old catalog, which is three years old containing almost 100,000 images?
If I start fresh, can I open the older catalog later if the need arises?
What say the Adobe experts?
Thanks.

Jim-
LR can easily handle that number...I have more than 150k and never a problem.
The one thing you should consider though is backing up and optimizing - you can set it to automatically ask you to do it (and you should at least whenever you make large imports or a large number of edits). The backups are catalog backups only, not full file backups, and are stored locally...at the 100,000 file level it will likely be over 1gb so you should check them now and then and delete most of them just to save space..
cheers,
tom

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