On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hah! That did it; thanks, Mr. G! I have removed one piece of > software from my workflow, which has to be a good thing.
Glad that helped. > Having said that, I understand how Lr works perfectly well, but have a > constraint: a Mac with an ultra-fast but irritatingly small SSD (i.e. > "hard disk" that's not a disk, just more chips). I can't possibly > keep any substantial proportion of my collection on it, so I carry > around an outboard disk for that (and have several levels of backup, > but that's another story). But, I really like having the last 2 or 3 > months' photos on the SSD because it makes Lightroom faster. So... I > always import from the cameras into a directory Pictures/Current and > do all my editing and triage there. Every few months I migrate the > survivors off to their final homes on the outboard disk. I have a little less than 2 Terabytes of image files now. My active working data drive for my desktop system is a 1T drive which has about 250G free space left, so the total mass of the archive is not represented in my "in progress" catalog, only the active portion. Similarly, I have a 500G fast drive in the laptop and have only the past couple weeks/months data in it. Data flow, when I'm in the field with the laptop, is that the data goes in there and I start editing. When I'm back to my desk, I roll what files are in there across to the desktop system, into the main repository, and import the laptop's catalog after re-synching the file locations. When I'm going to be away and want to continue working on a couple of things, I rolll that portion of the in-progress stuff out to a catalog, move it and the image files to the laptop, and away I go ... re-syncing it back to the desktop when I return. There are all sorts of ways to organize workflow. Remember that I teach this stuff. Sadly, or fortunately depending on what perspective you want to take, the people who prefer to do it their way most are the most likely ones to call me up three months later for a 1:1 session to sort out the mess they've made ... ! Workflow isn't worth arguing about. All you have to do is work out a schema that does the job for you, and keep it going. Mine works great for me and I manage many many thousands of files. I've never lost one. -- 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.
