On Jun 8, 2010, at 13:23, Sam L wrote: > For the physical files in the directories above, he leaves the newer > files on his laptop. But the old stuff (say anything before 2008) he > removes the files/directories and stores them physically on a backup > drive. And the drive has the same simple file structure. > His backup drive might look something like this: > > e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2008\... > e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2009\... > e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2010\20100501 - Pentax EVIL Camera Preview\ > e:\sams_stuff\sams_photo_files\2010\\20100601 - Dads Birthday\ > etc > > Lightroom mostly allows him to look at his collections, tags, photos, > etc, for the files that are no longer physically on his laptop. If he > wants to manipulate/edit those files, however, he would first need to > copy the old directory and files from the backup drive back onto his > laptop. >
You could do it that way, but it's much more work than you need to go through. Next time you want to edit an old photo... click on the question-mark in the corner of the thumbnail and it will ask you where you want it to look for the location of that file now. Point it to the right folder (you might need to click on the actual file - can't remember for sure) on that external drive, tell it you'd like it to find other missing files that may be nearby, and you're good to go. Now you don't need to move/copy anything around again - just have that external drive plugged in when you want to work with old files. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
