How Many Images Can PM Handle?

[danieljcox]

I'm currently using Apple's Aperture with a library of nearly 500,000 images. Unfortunately Aperture just doesn't seem to be able to handle this many images with out problems (i.e. lots of spinning beach balls when trying to scroll through the entire library). I'm searching for a program that can handle this many images and more in one complete library. Does anyone have any experience with PM accessing and handling this many still photos?

[pwp]

I occasionally get nuisance behavior, unreasonable delays and program crashes if I throw a single folder of 1000-5000 raws at PM5. I've learned the hard way to split big jobs up into smaller chunks. This is on a very gutsy Win 7 64 quad with 16Gb memory and plenty of space on the HDD.

-PW

[Luiz Muzzi]

I occasionally get nuisance behavior, unreasonable delays and program crashes if I throw a single folder of 1000-5000 raws at PM5. I've learned the hard way to split big jobs up into smaller chunks. This is on a very gutsy Win 7 64 quad with 16Gb memory and plenty of space on the HDD.

-PW

Hi,
I myself use dated folders inside subject folders (you can do the other way around if you shoot more than one assignement in a day, too). I know that PM can handle a huge amount of raw files... if necessary you can open a folder with all its subfolders in the same contact sheet. This way you can rename, tag, sort and capction all of them at the same time. Very useful feature of PM.
Regards,

-Luiz Muzzi

[Kirk Baker]

Daniel,

I'm currently using Apple's Aperture with a library of nearly 500,000 images. Unfortunately Aperture just doesn't seem to be able to handle this many images with out problems (i.e. lots of spinning beach balls when trying to scroll through the entire library). I'm searching for a program that can handle this many images and more in one complete library. Does anyone have any experience with PM accessing and handling this many still photos?

Photo Mechanic cannot handle 500,000 images in a single folder, no.

-Kirk

[Kevin M. Cox]

I'm searching for a program that can handle this many images and more in one complete library.

Photo Mechanic doesn't use "libraries" like Aperture and Lightroom do. PM just browses folders you point it at but doesn't retain a record of them after you close the contact sheet.

The new Catalog that is being developed will operate more like you are thinking but there is no release date set yet.

[chardinej]

Are there 500,000 images in the whole world???!!!