I have query about the LR catalogue/database.
How do you cope with the situation where all your image files (.ORF, .NEF,
.JPG, etc.) are stored outside the catalogue in your own file structure then
you get a new PC and decide to consolidate those image files (previously stored
on different drives) onto a different drive configuration ? Is there some way
you can re-reference the pointers in the catalogue to the new file locations
without having to re-index your images ?
...Wayne
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From: olympus
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On Behalf Of Piers Hemy
Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2017 5:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom
Jim, STOP!
In this respect, you have missed the single biggest advantage of LR (which is,
as far as I am aware, unique to LR). IT isn't just an image editor, it is an
image management database too. You do not need to change any of your existing
file structure, just leave your images where they are ("import" them into LR so
as to give LR the information it needs to find them, of course) and then start
to use LR keywords to classify the images. By all means use Family, Little
League, Airport, Skydiving, Pretty, Boys, Girls in as many combinations as you
please for each image. The beauty of this approach is that it is infinitely
flexible and can be modified, expanded, developed as your needs evolve. And
unlike a classification using the PC file/folder structure, it is
multi-dimensional. You are not forced to choose whether a given image is an
"Airport" image or a "Pretty Girl" image - give that image all three keywords,
and you can later search for images meeting the "Pretty" and "Girl" criteria.
Or "Airport" and "Girl". Or...
This is certainly not the time to start restructuring your hierarchy of files
and folders - use LR to its most advantage!
Piers
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From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jim Nichols
Sent: 06 January 2017 16:45
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom
Thanks for sharing your insights, Philippe. I am getting ready to attempt to
select a file structure that fits my picture taking habits, i.e., Family,
Little League, Airport, Skydiving, maybe even Pretty Girls. :-)
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 1/6/2017 2:25 AM, Philippe wrote:
> Three steps
>
> I often rename e.g. 2016-Xmas-file nb - LR can do that
> semi-automatically, just type in the prefix and let the file
> number - there are other options but I like this one best
>
> I let LR create its folders the way it wants, by dates, and find it
> convenient since it works fine - the itch is when you have several
> cameras not all set to the accurate date and time - but this issue can
> also be addressed after the upload, automatically (how do I know? I
> edited the photos from a dozen not-synchronized cameras when I last
> got married )
>
> And most importantly, you can, should, must use keywords on import - e.g. "
> holidays, Portugal, Sintra . Thus, whatever the date, I can find all the
> photos I shot In Portugal in a second, whatever the day they were shot, or
> restrict my quest to a specific place, Sintra, etc.
>
> In any case, the camera used will be recorded too, and it may sometimes be
> useful to make a query this way too.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Amities
> Philippe
>
>
>> Le 6 janv. 2017 02:41, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a crit :
>>
>> One of the tutorials I watched this afternoon made a point of explaining
>> that a three-day assignment, with files split into three folders by date,
>> was a bad thing. He always used a subject name instead of date. To each
>> his own. :-D
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>> On 1/5/2017 7:32 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> Correction. The directory dates are not based on import date, but
>>> file date. So if you shoot over a three day period of time, when you
>>> import them, Lightroom will sort them into three directories. If you
>>> want, of course.
>>>
>>> This is a good thing, Martha. Unless, of course, you have a camera
>>> that the clock resets itself to some crazy date like 6/1/2077. Don't
>>> ask my how I know that.
>>>
>>> AG Schnozz
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