Hey Guys, My mum is doing semi professional photography and I am at my wits end. It’s a human and technological problem. I did a quick object count she has like 70k photos roughly 4tb. This happens because she takes every picture in raw and JPEG and a lot of series captures. The begin of the story is that she had at first a ssd, then a second, then a third and so on. I already bought a synology nas. And threw everything at it. But everything is messy and unsorted and she is not happy because she doesn’t get her chaos together and adobe Lightroom performs bad with network drives, and I don’t get why … but this seems to be a known problem… Anyways she uses Lightroom for her editing which is nice, but she is using more like a library and not to perform the actual changes, that’s the reason that the catalogue which is a db of the changes is a 17 gb.
She is not happy at the current state. Do you have suggestions, for a strategy to clear this chaos ? Or a cool tool for getting a folder structure? Maybe any tips and tricks for synology and network stuff ?
I Already tried to move files and get a structure but Lightroom hates this and loses track of the file. So a powershell script which sorts the items into year folders was a good idea but I am scared of bricking the db
The nas and the mac are all wired up on 1 gbit and I am sure it should be ok because the big raws are only like 70mb per file
Regards :)
Here are her choices:
Improved workflow + time investment in cleanup OR BURN BABY BURN THAT MONEY!!!
Jokes aside. She needs to start splitting photos she is actively working on and the ones that are effectively archived. I am sure there are ways to make the it still available either making a lower rez copy that lets her browse them in Imitch or some other tool that she would find more palatable… but there is going to be trial and error phase… not fun.
As for the money burning bit start… just buy bigger SSD… you can put them in DAS (direct attached storage) which is similar to NAS but is available only that one machine has deeper integration inside of system so may overcome the bugs lightroom is throwing at her.