On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmf, I must be doing it wrong. I always import my raw files into > Pictures/Current and do triage and basic editing there before I move > them to their final home. [Yes - *gasp* - he discards Raw files.] > > I just imported a bunch and thought I'd unchecked all those things you > pointed out, but it went and put them in Current/2011/2011-03-13 > anyhow. OK, I accept your assertion that I can tell Lightroom what to > do and it will obey, so now I'm on a mission to find out how. I'm > hoping I just missed unchecking something, and also that Lr will > remember my settings in future imports. -T
I didn't go through all the destination options. You've chosen the "organize: by date" and "date format: YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD" options. If you click on ~/Pictures/Current and want your files deposited there, without an enclosing folder, choose "organize: Into one folder". The date format option will disappear, all the files will be deposited into that folder. Regards your work flow ... With LR, it's just as sensible to put them where you want them to live permanently in the first place, do your sort and grade, then tell it to delete the rejected ones, rather than putting them in one place, sorting/grading, deleting, then moving the remainder to a final destination. (Works more smoothly that way, for my workflow.) The notion in Lightroom is to create an "original image file repository" that never moves, just grows. Since all the image editing information is stored in the catalog and the original image files are there only for reading that repository can be situated anywhere you want. Where to put it is a matter of your backup and performance configuration. Once you have a good design for the repository (organized by a date directory tree, a category directory tree, whatever works for you) there's very little reason to move pieces of it around. You identify images by keyword and IPTC metadata, you group images by using collections and collection sets, you track editing state by using flags/stars/labels. The original image files never have to move, these markings are simply annotations in the database. (This is completely different from a typical Photoshop workflow, which moves or copies files from bucket to bucket to track the state of the image editing.) -- 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.
