New catalogue?

I have had LR for 2.5 years and have almost 170,000 images in my one and only catalogue. Everything seems to be running just fine. I am trying to decide whether it would be wise to open a new catalogue entitled 2011 and place all photos starting Jan 1 into the new catalogue. Is this a logical plan or is it unnecessary? What are the pros and cons of creating this new catalogue based on the year and, if this is a good idea, should I do this annually thereafter?

I would advise against creating a new catalog.
Why? Because it's so very practical to have all your images in one catalog. That's why we have LR. Different catalogs in LR is similar to have your images in Bridge in different folders - to find an image you have to remember where it is located.
Whatever method you chose for separating your images in different catalogs, many images will not fit neatly in one or the other category. So, either you have to put them in more than one catalog, or you "force" them into one. But months/years down the line, when you try to find a certain image, will you remember in which catalog you put it? I often remember that I took a certain image, but when? 2004? 2005? Hmmm.
If you want to order your images by years - and I can see only one valid reason for it, namely when you go back to a certain place and photograph it again and again in different years - do it within one-and-the same catalog and separate your images by folders, collections, keywords.
WW

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The reason – In each Catalogue I have flagged the images that I want to print. I want to create a new Catalogue with only the flagged images from the other Catalogues in order to do a contact print or multi images on one sheet of paper.
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In each catalogue, select the images and select File > Export as Catalogue. When you're finished, create a new catalogue, and then use File > Import as Catalog for each of the exported ones.
When you're finished doing all this, do put some time aside to think what else you could have done with all the time you've just used up. With a single master catalogue, you would already have been admiring your prints and having a coffee, with your feet up on the desk too.
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John

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Hi,
We have the requirement of implementing new catalogue in the lines of catalogue like HP catalogue.
We are using the SRM version 3.0 nad SAP 4.7C.
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Thanks and regards,
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Hello Ramchadra,
In addition to Masa,
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Also refer the following links:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6075d293-291b-2a10-7fbb-b827b28fd9b0
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c0102a91-bae4-2910-f298-acbae13e80d4
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https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~sapdownload/011000358700006199102006E/SRMMDM_CG_10-24-06.pdf
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10d1bde2-699f-2910-8e86-f46bfe045fdc
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Thank you, but the problem arises from the LR Help file..What I really want to do is to create a new catalogue of selected images. The Help file says exactly what I want to do BUT:
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To export individual images into a new catalog, they
must first be selected. Then, from the File menu, choose Export as Catalog. Also, if
you press Option or Alt, you’ll see the standard Import and Export buttons (bottom
left, Library) change to Import Catalog and Export Catalog; see Figure 9–14.
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Figure 9-14
373
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
9 Export negative files: in this case, “negative” simply means the image files on disk.
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will link to those files, not the originals. If this is left unchecked, the new catalog
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Include available previews: when this option is checked, Lightroom will also copy
the previews from the old preview package into the new one.
You can also export entire collections and folders as catalogs. Right-click or
Ctrl+click the folder or collection and from the popup menu select “Export [folder
or collection] as catalog”. For the export, you will have the same options described
above.
Export catalogs to share them
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hundin06-
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http://lightroomsecrets.com/2009/05/single-catalog-or-multiple-catalogs/
more on database catalogs-
http://layersmagazine.com/working-with-database-catalogs-in-lightroom.html
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b nView
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Should I create a new catalogue ?

Hi there,
I saw some youtube seminar from some top guru in Lightroom. I remember his advise was not to create a multiple catalogue and always stick to one catalogue.
I intend to follow his advice but I am now face with this problem below:
My 20TB Drobo 5D external harddisk which I usually uesed for Video editing will be getting full soon. I realise that it's getting filled up so fast because for the last many months, I have been putting timelapse raw photos into the Drobo 5D. All these timelapse raw fotos are catalogued in Lightroom
So, now I intend to moved all these raw timelpase photos into another harddisk so as to free the space in the Drobo 5D. I believe once I moved the raw timelapse fotos from 5D to a new harddisk, will the catalogue be all messed up ?
So what shall I do now ?
Thank you and appreciate the advice of experts here.
Thanks again

dj_paige wrote:
Let me give you the opposite advice. Keep everything in one catalog. There are rarely benefits to multiple catalogs. If you want all photos, time-lapse photos and videos of a particular subject, and they're spread out across two catalogs, you can't retrieve them easily using multiple catalogs. In one catalog, this is a simple search.
ONE CATALOG ONLY.
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Thanks dj_paige for your advice which is the same as the guru i saw in the youtube.
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