theoldwizard1
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- Oct 18, 2014
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Operating System: Windows 7
Lightroom Version: LR CC
(Please go to Help menu > System Info to double check the exact version number)
Question or Description of Problem:First, I am not the end user, that is my best friend. I am the "computer guy" who maintains his PC. I know nothing about USING LR, but I do have somewhat of an idea on how the data is stored.
He has an extremely LARGE catalog file. It is so large that when shutting LR down and letting it do a backup, it takes in excess of 1 hour ! The catalog file and all of the pictures are stored on a 3 disk (two 2TB and one 4TB disks) RAID 5 set. (J: drive) The backup files are stored on a different disk (no RAID).
The main reason he has kept all of the pictures in on catalog is because he heavily uses the comment (correct term ?) feature so that he can cross reference the images. Overall performance of LR is acceptable, it is just doing the backup.
Lightroom Version: LR CC
(Please go to Help menu > System Info to double check the exact version number)
Question or Description of Problem:First, I am not the end user, that is my best friend. I am the "computer guy" who maintains his PC. I know nothing about USING LR, but I do have somewhat of an idea on how the data is stored.
He has an extremely LARGE catalog file. It is so large that when shutting LR down and letting it do a backup, it takes in excess of 1 hour ! The catalog file and all of the pictures are stored on a 3 disk (two 2TB and one 4TB disks) RAID 5 set. (J: drive) The backup files are stored on a different disk (no RAID).
The main reason he has kept all of the pictures in on catalog is because he heavily uses the comment (correct term ?) feature so that he can cross reference the images. Overall performance of LR is acceptable, it is just doing the backup.
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