Excellent suggestions, George. Thanks! Cheers, Christine
On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:21 PM, George Sinos wrote: > Hi Christine - After you view the videos on adobe's site. Kelby's > book is probably all you need. I haven't found any to be more to the > point. I'd say get the most recent version. Martin Evening's book is > even more detailed. I only use them for reference. > > One thing you might want to try. Kelbytraining.com has a great video > course. I think it's about 8 hours long. You could subscribe for 1 > month for $25. They also have free day passes. Get up early, > especially on a weekday, and grab a 24 hour free pass. You can watch > anything you want for 24 hours. They usually put about 50 of them on > the home page every day. It's a little after noon and today's batch > is gone. > > gs > > George Sinos > -------------------- > [email protected] > www.georgesphotos.net > plus.georgesinos.com > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Christine Aguila > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I greatly appreciate everyone's help here, but things are a mess with this >> catalogue. The more I look try to compare the two folder structures on the >> 2 main drives, the more messy it seems to be. I think I'll ignore this for >> a few days, and try again when I've stopped weeping :-). >> >> I think it's time to rethink my workflow and photo management system, and I >> think I need some tutorials on advanced photo management and catalogues >> skills. It's to the adobe videos for me, and perhaps a purchase of a book. >> >> If anyone knows of a good book for Lightroom 4, I'd appreciate the >> recommendation. I have the Scott Kelby book for the early Lightroom version >> (1 or 2 ), and thought it ok, but I found him a bit wordy. If there's >> another book you'd recommend by a different author who gets right to the >> point, I'd be very grateful. >> >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jul 11, 2012, at 7:29 AM, George Sinos wrote: >> >>> Christine - here's a video that shows how to find missing or relocated >>> files and folders. >>> >>> <http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-4/import-moving-folders-around-after-the-fact/> >>> >>> If you have the same structure on both drives, It takes longer to >>> watch the explanation than to do it. >>> >>> Just a tip for people organizing things in Lightroom. Put all of your >>> files and folders under one top level folder. Call it "photo library" >>> of whatever you would like. This makes it easy to move everything to >>> a different drive. >>> >>> gs >>> >>> George Sinos >>> -------------------- >>> [email protected] >>> www.georgesphotos.net >>> plus.georgesinos.com >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Quoting Eric Featherstone <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> I believe there's a rather simpler solution. Your lightroom catalogue >>>>> has stored within it the location each photo and these of course all >>>>> point to a drive called "Lightroom 1". If your thrid drive reeally is >>>>> an identical copy of "Lightroom 1" then name it identically too (i.e. >>>>> Lightroom 1), then start Lightroom and it will all just work. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That was my first thought as well but not being a Lightroom user I wasn't >>>> sure if there was something in the database structure that wouldn't allow >>>> it >>>> to work. >>>> >>>> In my Studioline image management system I did precisely that when I needed >>>> to create a separate backup of the database. Is there any reason why it >>>> wouldn't work with Lightroom? >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Brian >>>> >>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>> Brian Walters >>>> Western Sydney Australia >>>> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> David's method perfectly valid but is just a little more involved, >>>>> needing to relocate the files from within Lightroom. I don't have >>>>> Lightroom here in front of me but from memory you would right click >>>>> (or maybe apple or option click on a mac?) on the topmost folder level >>>>> in the left hand pane and choose "locate", then browse to your >>>>> Lightroom 2 disk in the dialogue that comes up. >>>>> >>>>> Eric. >>>>> >>>>> On 11 July 2012 09:22, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not sure how to "simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2". I just >>>>>> tried to figure it out, but I'm lost. The only option I see is to >>>>>> reimport >>>>>> each folder on Lightroom 2 drive into the catalogue, but I'd still have >>>>>> the >>>>>> original "missing file" and I'd have to rerender the photo. Each >>>>>> individual folder of photos on Lightroom 2 does not appear in the Folders >>>>>> panel on the left hand side of the Library module. It does for >>>>>> Lightroom 1, >>>>>> which was the drive the catalogue was linked to. Is this the problem? >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry, Dave, for not understanding your directions, but I do appreciate >>>>>> your help, It's late. I think I'll try this again in the morning, but >>>>>> I >>>>>> don't feel confident I'll have better luck. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, Christine >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:47 AM, David Parsons wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Do not delete the catalog or the images in the catalog. That will >>>>>>> erase any keywording and image editing that you may have done. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If the backup (Lightroom 2) has the identical files that Lightroom 1 >>>>>>> had, then simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2, and make Lightroom >>>>>>> 3 a new backup (I would seriously think about using a different naming >>>>>>> scheme). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If Lightroom 2 has the same files, but they aren't in the same folder >>>>>>> structure, then it will be more tedious to link the files (but >>>>>>> infinitely more preferable to re-importing and re-doing all your >>>>>>> previous work). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Christine Aguila >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi Everyone: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm seeking advice. Here's the situation: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 1) I've been using 2 external drives for my photos. I have called >>>>>>>> these drives Lightroom 1 (main one which has been linked to a >>>>>>>> catalogue of >>>>>>>> 8,000 plus photos) and Lightroom 2 (back up). Well, Lightroom 1 >>>>>>>> stopped >>>>>>>> responding. It's been replaced, and I have named the replacement >>>>>>>> external >>>>>>>> drive Lightroom 3. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2) Now, all the photos in my catalogue of 8,000 plus photos are >>>>>>>> identified in Lightroom as "missing." As Lightroom users know, this is >>>>>>>> because Lightroom can't find the external drive Lightroom 1 (the drive >>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>> died). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So, my question is, what would our experienced Lightroom users do in >>>>>>>> this situation? Would you >>>>>>>> a) delete all images in the catalogue and reimport from Lightroom 2 >>>>>>>> (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)? >>>>>>>> OR >>>>>>>> b) delete the catalogue itself, create a new catalogue, then import >>>>>>>> photos from Lightroom 2 (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)? >>>>>>>> OR >>>>>>>> c) something different? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Also, lately I've been thinking of going through all my photos and >>>>>>>> really weed out the junk, so I thought that since I have to deal with >>>>>>>> this >>>>>>>> photo management mess, I'd also do some weeding at the same time. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Cheers, Christine >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
