Rick,
I'll layout my Mac OS X working system for you. I've spent a lot of
time developing this setup and it works flawlessly.
The internal drive will offer better performance unless your external
drive is connected with FireWire 800. I would do the following:
- Replace the current 75G internal drive with a 500G internal drive.
Put the current one in an external power enclosure and clone it back
to the new internal drive (using CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper), set
it as the startup drive. Reformat the 75G drive in the external case
once you're sure everything is cloned nicely and works properly. Now
you have a 500G internal drive as main and a 75 and 250 G pair of
external drives for backup. (It would be better to have a matched
pair of external drives, but you can add another 250 later...) That
makes enough disk space to be useful for real work...
- Set up the library and folder hierarchy for your work on the
internal drive. I do it this way in a directory named PHOTOGRAPHY at
the top level of my account directory:
YEAR
READY
20070101-stuff
20070101-more stuff
20070102-birthday party
20070104-shoot in SF
<etc>
WORKED
20070115-01-exhibit set 1
20070122-02-submission to B&W magazine
<etc>
Imports go into subdirectories of READY date coded and tagged as you
see.
When I'm done with a set for a particular purpose, the finish set is
exported to a folder in the WORKED area.
Also in the PHOTOGRAPHY directory, I have a folder named LR-
LIBRARIES. In that one, I have two main folders, LR-DEFAULT and LR-
Completed_Work. Each of those contains a Lightroom library:
- The LR-DEFAULT library is where all the day-to-day work goes on and
where new work is imported for sorting and processing ... it looks at
the folders and files in the YEAR/READY area.
- The LR-Completed_Work library contains an import of each of the
projects in the YEAR/WORKED area.
Every day when I'm done with my work, I run an automated backup with
ChronoSync (Econ Technologies) which backs up the entire PHOTOGRAPHY
directory to each of two external backup hard drives. In essence, at
the end of every day/session's work, I have three copies of my
PHOTOGRAPHY data (and other stuff) on separate physical hard drives.
hope that helps... ;-)
Godfrey
On Jun 18, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Rick Womer wrote:
> 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)?
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