I have another blog that focuses on travel by bicycle and I also have another website where I sell bicycle bags. The thing is, the line that separates personal from non-personal work is very blurry these days. Some 7 years ago, I created a separate Lightroom catalog for my non-personal work, along with its own folder structure. I figured I should keep my personal stuff separate from my non-personal stuff. This was all fine and dandy until I started taking photos that weren’t just for my personal use. Should I set up multiple catalogs? Multiple folders inside the same catalog? How should I structure the folders? In the beginning, I made the decision to keep everything inside the same catalog and create separate folders for years, and within each year, folders for each month with a short description of the pictures. Catalog Management ConundrumĮver since I first started using Lightroom quite a few years ago, I’ve pondered on how to organize my catalogs. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to search multiple LR catalogs at once. It is a well-known fact that Lightroom catalogs are nothing more than SQLite files.

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