More than one catalog and size?

Hello to the Gurus present! I have: PSE 5.0, Windows XP and Vista CPU, lots of disk space. What is the general concensus: One catalog for 20,000 pictures or more with a lot of tags or is it better to have several catalogs? When I look at a picture with Alt-Enter I can see the tags, but not the collections. So, I guess, these are not written to the files. Would it be a good idea then to make "dummy tags" for collections? Also, is there a limit for the file size? My wife adds surely 10,000 to 15,000 pics a year now and I am "supposed" <grin-grin> to keep them in order. Thanks, Alexander

Colin,
Thanks for coming back quickly to my query with some answers.
Split/Merge catalogs:
I have never tried to split a catalog (no need up to now), but I managed to combine two catalogs by
- tagging all pictures in both catalogs
- writing the tags to the files ( I have only PSD, TIFF and JPG)
- start a new catalog
- import the directories where the pictures are
- seems to have worked, except that I forgot in one small directory at the time of import to tick the import tags
Collections:
Thanks for info. Will start using them.
Limit on file size:
I was thinking on catalog size. My guess is that there is in the MS Access DB no real upper limit which a normal mortal would reach. The image size? My largest up to now are around 50MB as I do not work commercially. No problem in this area. My new HP Pavilion has 2 x 300 GB plus a 300 GB "Personal Drive" in an exchange bay and I have external drives to dump and backup.
DEL Key:
Yup! I agree THE most important tool! LOL! We did manage to reduce the 15,000 plus of 2006 to 8644. If I delete one more the rolling pin might be flying in my direction! :-)

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