Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-11 Thread pdml
Many people are uncomfortable using UNIX command line utilities. Give that man the Nobel Prize for Understatement. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-11 Thread Alastair Robertson
Cory, I am sure that Tim's and Godfrey's approaches would do an admirable job at keeping two catalogs in synch, but to acheive the first part of your request to have lightroom remember develop settings, and keywords etc, shoot or convert into DNG files - lightroom then writes the metadata into the

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Alastair: Yes, Lightroom will save the Develop module editing parameters and any IPTC data (including keywords) into the original files or sidecars if you use the Metadata-Save Metadata to file command. However, you lose the editing history ... it only saves the parameters ... and the inclusion

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-11 Thread Graydon
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:48:52AM +0100, p...@web-options.com scripsit: Many people are uncomfortable using UNIX command line utilities. Give that man the Nobel Prize for Understatement. A little gentle remedial education, and all will be well for them. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Bray
I wrote about my approach to this problem at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/05/Lightroom-sync-with-rsync Does that help? -Tim On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Cory Waters cbwat...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have lightroom on my macbook and also on my desktop.  I usually do most of

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Bray
Oh, and (replying to myself) should note that that was written in 2008 and it's been working for me just fine since then. -Tim On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: I wrote about my approach to this problem at

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Cory Waters cbwat...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have lightroom on my macbook and also on my desktop. I usually do most of my work on my desktop but occsionally, like when I'm away from home, I'll upload photos to my laptop to clear my flash cards and have a look

RE: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread John Sessoms
From: Cory Waters I have lightroom on my macbook and also on my desktop.? I usually do most of my work on my desktop but occsionally, like when I'm away from home, I'll upload photos to my laptop to clear my flash cards and have a look at what's I've got.? It's no problem then to copy those

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Cory Waters
Tim, Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like your solution needs both computers to be macs. I didn't specify but my desktop is a windows box. CW On 5/10/2010 11:14 AM, Tim Bray wrote: Oh, and (replying to myself) should note that that was written in 2008 and it's been working for me just

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Cory Waters
John, It didn't look like that when it left here. CW On 5/10/2010 2:02 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Cory Waters I have lightroom on my macbook and also on my desktop.? I usually do most of my work on my desktop but occsionally, like when I'm away from home, I'll upload photos to my laptop to

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Bray
Hmm, it needs them both to support the rsync program, which Macs and every species of Linux do. Typing rsync windows into Google gets me http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp which looks like it might do the trick. -Tim On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Cory Waters

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread John Sessoms
From: Cory Waters John, It didn't look like that when it left here. CW In the digest, it appeared as just one one line that didn't even wrap to the window. Something must have stripped out your line feeds carriage returns. Maybe that's what some of those odd extra '?' characters are. --

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
To keep the Lightroom catalog and file repository in synch on two systems simply means synchronizing one with the other by whatever means you want. While that's perfectly reasonable to do, it wasn't Cory's question far as I could tell. That's why I described a methodology that works well for when

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: Tim's methodology is a means to keep the Lightroom catalog and file repository synchronized and the same between multiple computers. The only thing particularly different about it is that he uses rsync rather than

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Now Godfrey, you have an attitude problem.  Using an automated utility is like using a point-and-shoot with zoom, which as we know is a crutch to be eschewed by the Real Photographer.  Using the unadorned unix command line