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 :)

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    10 months ago

    Unless LR have changed, there’s built in tools to move and manage the db <-> file relationship.

    There used to also be tools to prune/trim the db.

    The root of the problem might her workflow. Especially when shooting series, when she’s back/at the computer, immediately go through the photos and delete whatever’s out of focus/uninteresting/etc.

    Maybe she’s good at the workflow? I know how tedious it is to sit down and sort out a huge archive like that.

    I used LR for a long time, but got tired of backing up and managing the files. I moved to iCloud and I’m happy with that.

    The Apple Photos program is extremely basic, but it’s a decent way of rough organising photos.

    Using tags/project/etc. is important.

    As for folder structure, I used (year) - (month) (day). That with at least some basic tags made it manageable.