Hi Derby just learned how to do this myself and it's buried in an obscure place in Lightroom and given a rather misleading title given what it does. In the Library window, select the folders you want it to work on, click Metadata, then Update DNG preview & Metadata and it will work away turning bloated K10D DNGs into much smaller versions. It also works on PEF's from istD that have been converted into DNGs.
I have to remember to do this regularly on newly imported DNG's to get them compressed too. If you try converting them to compressed DNG when you import the uncompressed files from the camera or the card it doesn't work and just imports them as uncompressed DNGs. Try it, you will save a lot of disk space! Alastair On Feb 20, 2008 9:49 PM, Derby Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Godfrey, or equivalent LR guru > > I'd like to compress my K10D DNG folder to a manageable size. I tried > the DNG converter, but I can't see a way to to force it to save over the > same file. Using the "save to same location, it saves it with an "-1" > file duplication, bloating my disk space. What I would like is to have > in the end, lightroom pointing to the same pics, but with the nice > lossless compression. > > tia > D > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
