You're welcome, glad to help. On Thursday, April 28, 2011, Thibouille <pentaxl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/4/27 Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Thibouille <pentaxl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I presently work with 2 catalogs. One for my personal work and one for >>> my photo courses.... >>> >>> Now, my problem: I realized I imported files from my Courses catalog >>> at the place I store my own files (lets call it Personal catalog). ... >> >> I'm not entirely sure I understand. Is this the situation? >> >> - You have two catalogs intended for different purposes, Personal and >> Courses. >> - You do not want the image files to be included in both catalogs. >> - When you import with each catalog, you want LR to move your image >> files into different file system locations to keep them separated. > > Yes, sir. > >> - When you imported files into your Courses catalog, you inadvertently >> set LR to place the files in the file system location normally used >> for your Personal files. > > It may be. Actually, looking at the rest of your post, I see that is > most probably the problem. > I, indeed, broke myself the thing. > >>> I do not want to mix files, deleting a file when it is also present in >>> the second catalog will create a big mess and since LR can't open both >>> catalog at the same time... can't do another way. >>> >>> Did I messed things up? Or did LR? I'm under the impression that LR >>> keeps the last import settings in memory but do NOT it does so in >>> relation to what catalog is opened. Which means, if I'm no cautious >>> enough, things gets mixed (and messed up). Is it so ? >> >> The worst thing that can happen if you delete files from one catalog >> (and delete or move them around in the file system) is that the same >> image files also present in the other catalog will come up with >> question marks saying that Lightroom can't find them. All you have to >> do is tell the catalog with the question marks to synchronize with the >> file system and remove missing files. > > Yep, indeed, that what happended (followed by a loud S**T) ;) > But I copied back the files where I intended them to be otherwise it > becomes a big mess. > > >> Similarly, once you put the files into the right locations for the >> other catalog, either re-import them or synchronize existing folders >> into which they've been placed. > > Will do, thanks. > >> Lightroom remembers import settings on a per catalog basis >> automatically, but the sensible and safe thing to do if you want LR to >> move files into separate locations in two different catalogs/import >> scenarios is to define two import presets, one for each catalog, and >> remember to choose the correct one when doing your imports. > > That, I was unsure about. Thank you for pointing it out and more > thanks because I never thought about the import presets. > To me it was more like doing a couple adjustments/conversions at > import time which I didn't want to. > >> I have about four different import scenarios articulating in what >> destinations in the file system I want imports to place the files, so >> I have a preset set up for each of them. > > Will certainly do as well now. Thank you much Godfrey :) > >> Godfrey >> godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs > ---------------------- > Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, > DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ > KX, MX, SuperA+Motor, Z1, P30 > Mamiya C330+80/2.8 > Sekonic L-208 > FalconEyes TE300D x2 Studio flashes > > Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 > > Programing: Delphi 2009 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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