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Re: [OM] Musings - Re: setting up a photo database

Subject: Re: [OM] Musings - Re: setting up a photo database
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 12:12:24 -0800
On 1/7/2020 11:38 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
AFAIK LR‘s use of xmp sidecar files is optional. It always stores all the
image-specific data in its database but you can choose to also create
sidecar files to improve compatibility with other DAM tools.

Ah, well I'm glad I have it turned on, then.

However as you say, ‘collections’ are only in the database. If you need to
switch to a different DAM you could apply the collection name as a keyword
to all the included images and rebuild the collections in the new DAM
(assuming it has something to support such a thing).

That would be pretty simple for regular collections. Smart Collections are more useful to me, as new images that meet the criteria are automatically included. No way, of course, to store that at the individual image level. Nor do I know how/whether other DAMs do something similar.

Sorted Moose

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