Exactly as Alastair says. Or, another workflow, is to transfer the file from the storage card to the computer hard drive with DNG Converter, then import into Lightroom.
Godfrey On Feb 20, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Alastair Robertson wrote: > 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 -- 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.
