Is there a limit to the asset library size?

[JlnMyr]

Hello, is there a limit to the asset library size in Designer or Photo?

Is it possible to have tens of thousands of assets in there, or will this start to impact performance?  

thanks!

Julien

[Old Bruce]

Hi and welcome to the forums @JlnMyr,

The answer is ... It depends.

A few thousand simple (one line of text and a couple of shapes) and small sized (sized in bytes) assets should not slow things down unless you have an underpowered computer. A couple of dozen assets that are in the several millions of bytes size could seriously hamper your ability to work. I tend to keep things on a separate hard drive and place them as needed instead of filling up the computer's hard drive.

Ask yourself "Am I going to use this Asset with multiple projects over the next few months?" before adding one. I keep a separate Category called "To Trash" for things I may need or just for convenience, I will continually remove items from it. It is usually empty.

[JlnMyr]

Thanks for giving me some perspective on this,

 

J