I use two...one for work and one or personal but I only split them earlier this year and ive neeb using LR for about five years. I like it just fine as my catalogs are very separate and easily identifiable as such. I split them because of speed; I have over 60,000 images in personal and about that many in work. Lightroom should be able to handle them combined with ease but it couldn't/didn't. So in the interest in getting along with my work I split them. It works like a charm for me but it was simpler when they were one. Simpler meaning only that I didn't have to close one catalog to open another...it's not hard, just a step that as to be done. All that being said, I have heard of catalogs with hundreds of thousands of images in them running just fine. I do believe mine was a glitch but I, and other tech folks, couldn't find it so splitting made the most sense. We do know it wasn't a ram issue...I have 22 gigs. Keep it one as long as you can. You'll know when you can't. Lea the most wonderful things in life aren't things
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