I'm runing Lightroom with the pictures at an external disk. Smoothly so far. Using the internal as a temporary backup drive sounds like a good idea. I may adopt it. It will force me to make the DVD when the drive is piling up. I've learned the hard way that Lightroom needs a lot of free space.
Tim Typo Mostly Harmless ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Womer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 5:00 PM Subject: Lightroom and organizing files > Folks, > > I've got a trial copy of Lightroom installed, and it > has me pondering the best way to organize my > burgeoning photo files. > > The setup is: A G5 iMac with 14 gig left on its 75 gig > hard disk, and an external 250 gig hard disk that is > only 1/3 full. > > I originally planned to make the iMac drive my primary > photo drive, and move things for archiving and backup > to the external disk periodically. Now the files are > piling up so fast that seems impractical. > > Any reason not to use the external hard drive as my > primary photo location, and maybe use the internal > drive for backups (on their way to DVDs)? > > Any input appreciated. It was easier to file > slides... > > Rick > > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! > FareChase. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.0/852 - Release Date: 17.06.2007 > 08:23 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
