On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > Holiday is coming up, and I'm planning on some photo sorting, having hundreds > of shots untouched. This raises questions. > > The pix (DNG files) and the Lightroom catalog are on a (Mac) desktop. My > laptop also has LR.
Is your laptop also an Apple system? Unclear. > 1. On the desktop, open the catalog, select all the photos I want to work on, > and hit Command-S to save the metadata and settings to the DNG files. No need to write out the metadata to the files at all. Select all the files you want to work on and put them into a Collection so you don't risk deselecting any inadvertently. > 2. Use "export as catalog" to send the pix etc. to an external hard drive. That's fine. Couple of things to be sure of: - If your laptop is not a Mac OS X system, be sure that the external drive is formatted for FAT32 or exFAT; Mac OS X can read but not write to NTFS file system structures. - It is helpful if when you do your export to catalog from the master catalog you have the Folders panel the root folder of all image file folders. This makes for a cleaner exported catalog folder. You achieve this by using the right click command on successively higher levels of the image folder tree "Show Parent Directory" until all the folders are subdirectories of one parent. - Be sure to include previews and negatives on the export. > 3. Plug the external hard drive into the laptop, launch LR, and "import from > catalog". Why? The "Export As Catalog" command, with the include neg and preview options checked, creates a completely self-contained LR catalog folder with subdirectories containing the image original files. All you need to do is copy that folder to your laptop (or leave it on the external drive if it is a portable drive) and double click the catalog file to start Lightroom with it for doing your sorting/grading etc. > 4. Reverse the procedure on our return. All you need to do, if you just work on this set for sorting grading, when you get back home is - put that catalog folder back onto the external drive - import from catalog on that catalog file, and set up the rules about what to do with new files and changed settings. -- 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.
