On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:15 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> I'd move it outside of LR (just because why induce the overhead of >> having some other application doing the moving) and then just tell LR >> "they're over HERE now". >> >> Not sure how to relocate/point to a different copy when the original >> is there and the thumbnails don't have that "?" asking where the >> original is, though.
That's the right way to do it for large directory trees of original image files. Right- or control-clicking on a folder name in the Folders panel brings up a popup menu with the command "Update Folder Location...". You can essentially have multiple identical copies of the folder tree. Expose the topmost "parent" folder in the tree and just point LR to whichever one you want it to use at any time. > I don't know. I guess that depends on how lightroom stores information about > edits & changes. > > I *think* it may use sidecar (.xmp) files ... Lightroom stores information about all operations on an image file, along with all the parameters, IPTC annotation, keywords, file location in the file system, etc, into an SQLlite database file. That's what the .lrcat or "catalog file" is. It can optionally store metadata describing the state and processing parameters (along with IPTC annotations) into .XMP format sidecar files for native raw files, or into DNG files. It can do the same with JPEG, PSD and TIFF files as well, if you enable that option. This is a subset of the full information contained in the database file as it does not contain the edit history, inclusion into collections, etc. It is simply a static output of the state of the processing controls and IPTC metadata in Adobe "eXtensible Metadata Protocol" format. (I do not enable automatic synchronization of metadata nor do I enable it to store processing information into JPEG, PSD and TIFF files ... it's unnecessary unless you wish to use other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite which are aware of this information and synchronized to utilize it in conjunction with Lightroom and Camera Raw. Occasionally, in the production of rendered JPEG files, I force Lightroom to write metadata to files as I sometimes produce the rendered JPEG files through writing out a slide show or by compositing several images in the Print module. The procedure then is to import those exported products, synchronize the IPTC metadata from the original files, and force a write of the IPTC annotation so that it can be picked up on flickr and used by clients. I always strip processing information and EXIF camera data from my image products ... there's no point to including it.) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
