On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> It turns out that the catalog I wanted had gotten named >> 101231_working.lrcat.lrcat >> >> And it just didn't like the second .lrcat > > How'd you get there?
I knew what directory the catalogs were in. I went there and typed grep -R 101128 * and it found that catalog, when I saw the filename I guessed that might be the problem so I renamed a copy of t to 101231_working_rename.lrcat and it worked. > >> I'm not quite sure what Synchronize is supposed to do, but it certainly >> doesn't seem to be to synchronize between two catalogs, it seems to be for >> synchronizing between a catalog and directories that are already in the >> catalog. > > Exactly. Synchronize in the context of a Lightroom catalog says "look > at this folder and check that what is in the catalog matches what is > there, give the user the option to make them the same". It can > synchronize deletions, metadata changes, etc. > > Lightroom has no tools that work with two catalogs simultaneously. All > Lightroom operations are in the context of a single, current catalog. Understandable, but frustrating. > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
