A single Lightroom catalog makes managing Lightroom a lot easier. Having just one catalog will:
- Help you find images faster
- Keep track of backups
- Ensures you don’t lose track of images because you import images into the wrong catalog
- Quickly update the catalog when a new version of Lightroom is available
- Synchronizing Publish services such as Facebook, Zenfolio and Smugmug Hierarchy
Want to learn more? Check out this article, “Should I have One or Many Lightroom Catalogs?”
Not necessarily true. If you have the feature turned on, Lightroom will spend a lot of time in a large catalog looking for faces to auto tag. Lightroom learns the faces faster in a small catalog. Keeping like faces together in a small catalog means Lightroom will also tag your imports faster.