There is also an option to find missing files (ie files that have been moved). LR will tell you when you try to look at/edit an image that is in the database, but isn't where LR thinks it is.
Using this feature, instead of synchronising, keeps all collections, tag etc. intact. Live & learn. Cheers, Dave 2008/12/28 Rick Womer <[email protected]>: > My list of folders was getting cumbersomely long, so I decided to create a > folder for each year, and sort my existing folders into them. > > To do so, I used the Mac's Finder, and then had LR2 synchronize the folders. > > Bad idea. > > I had to delete all of the now-empty "ghost" folders from the list in LR, > which was a minor pain. I went away and did other things while LR restored > the previews, which could have been a moderate pain but wasn't. > > The major pain is that all of my Collections are now empty. Aargh. > > What I should have done is to have right-clicked on the top folder in my > hierarchy in Lightroom, chosen "Create Folder inside ---", and then moved > things around within LR. > > Of course, if Adobe had put these tasks in a menu, OR had documentation that > was worth more than a maggot-ridden turd, I would have known this before I > started. > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- 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.
