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Subject: Re: [OM] Software suggestions
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:57:01 -0500
What do you not understand?  I can try to explain.

Tina

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> 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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