Thanks, Godfrey! The laptop is also Mac (OS 10.5).
I'm planning to do grading, deleting, keywording, editing, converting to jpg, etc. That's why the transfer back to the desktop seems a bit tricky--some pix will be missing, and a lot will be changed. I don't understand the paragraph about the Folders panel. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Lightroom photo shuffling question > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 10:07 PM > 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. > -- 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.
