Standby. Maybe someone will answer my plea yet again and this time
perhaps we'll both understand... or not. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/3/2012 1:50 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> Interesting. Agreed - that is EXACTLY what I don't want. When I played
> with iPhoto the first time, it scanned for photos and imported them all,
> and then flattened out my file structure. Took me months to reconstruct it
> (yeah, yeah, I forgot to back it up first).
>
> Looks like I have some more research to do.
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Everyone it telling you Lightroom despite your statement that you don't
>> want to be forced into a filing system. I've had 3 versions of
>> Lightroom but have never really made use of it because the very first
>> thing is wants to do is "import" my many tens of thousands of images
>> from a file structure I have known and loved for many years (works for
>> me). I bought Tina's recommended book on Lightroom thinking maybe it
>> would finally make clear something about library structure for Lightroom.
>>
>> But I was astounded that there is hardly any discussion at all of
>> library structure except for the warnings I anticipated and was afraid
>> of... (my rephrasing, not a quote) *DO NOT* delete from, add to or
>> reorder the physical storage structure of the image database *without
>> going through Lightroom*. That makes perfect sense if you *only* use
>> Lightroom but also means that you can't add or delete things with
>> PhotoShop or anything else outside the Lightroom world without leaving
>> Lightroom unaware of and needing to be updated to the changes.
>>
>
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