Godfrey, I admire the effort you go through to introduce words such as "construe" into this august forum. Keep up the good work! -T
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, I admire the effort you go through to construe using the system > the way you desire. However, I'm more concerned with doing photography > and averse to playing with my computer system, so I use the computer > system the way I feel it was intended to be used and use Lightroom the > same way. To do otherwise, to me, is a waste of time and energy for no > good purpose. > > BTW, I don't organize my directories "the way Lightroom would." I > utilize Lightroom to automate organizing my image files *the way I > designed to have them organized* years before Lightroom existed. No > UNIX command line machinations required. > > Note that there's nothing wrong with using command line system > interfaces when they are the best way to get things done ... !! > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, it's a complex subject. >> >> To GDG's points, I organize my pictures into directories the way I >> want to, not the way Lightroom would. Except for, I let Lightroom >> keep all its catalog goo in Pictures/Lightroom. Also, like you, my >> full repertoire won't fit on my laptop's tiny little SSD, so I carry >> around an outboard drive, except for one directory "Current" on the >> main disk where I keep the last two or three months' worth. >> >> Via the magic of symbolic links (more wizened-unix-geek voodoo) the >> directory layout looks the same on both machines. So rsync does >> exactly what I think most people would want, and the folder paths in >> the database don't get bollixed up. >> >> Except for... Lightroom doesn't actually handle symbolic links that >> well. Despite the fact that the pictures look like they're in >> Pictures/2011/2011-07/whatever, Lr notices that one of those steps is >> a symbolic link to an external device and shows the folders as being >> on another device, in Library view. The consequence is that when I >> rsync, Lightroom opens the catalog correctly and all the filtering >> works, but if I want to open up a picture it says "oops, can't find >> the picture". But that turns out to be OK, because there's a "Find >> pictures" thing and it takes about 2 clicks to say "There they are". >> Arguably a bug in Lightroom, but no biggie. And anyhow I'm nearly >> always working on pictures in "Current", which is the same on both >> machines so no problem at all. >> >> Anyhow, I guess my claim remains that there are quite a few situations >> in which rsync works really well. But as I said, really only suitable >> for someone who's comfortable typing shell commands into a terminal >> window -T >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> As far as I understand it, in broad strokes, Rick wants to "copy"/"sync" >>>> his >>>> LR catalog from his workstation to his more portable laptop, do some work >>>> there on the laptop, then "copy"/"sync" his work back to his workstation. >>>> He >>>> expects any changes he made on the laptop to be 100% reflected on the >>>> workstation. >>>> >>>> The rsync solution Tim describes should accomplish this. Plus it's *really* >>>> fast. >>> >>> It's not that simple. The problem is that if you rsync (or ChronoSync) >>> the catalog file from one machine to another, the folder paths in the >>> database can be incorrect. Only if they are organized in such a way >>> that the folder paths are a relative subdirectory of the catalog >>> folder do they always work correctly. >>> >>> There are assumptions in Tim's document which are valid only if your >>> Lightroom setup is only using the default organization of catalog >>> folder and image file folders. I don't store either of them in the >>> default locations ... there's no need to and it's safer not to. >>> >>> And then there's the notion that Rick wants to reorganize a subset of >>> his catalog ... there might not be enough space on his laptop to hold >>> the entire library. I have this issue myself: my laptop has a 500G >>> disk in it, my working image file repository *alone* is 900G at this >>> point, never mind OS, applications, other files, and necessary free >>> space. >>> >>> Synchronization tools are very useful ... I use ChronoSync every day >>> to maintain my archives ... but they do not do what is needed for >>> Rick's project. >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > > > -- > 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.
