On Jul 20, 2012, at 15:45, Bob W wrote: > > I put all the raw files in a single folder with no hierarchical organisation > beneath it. Lightroom itself builds the date-based indexes (which may be > implemented as folders, but that's of no concern to me), and I use a > combination of keywords and collections to group things together and make > them easy to find. There is no need whatsoever to devise a structure outside > of Lightroom if you are using only Lightroom to access the raw files, which > is my situation. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't devise such a > structure if that suits you, but it is not a need, because LR can do > anything that the file system can do. >
How do you back these up? I arrange mine by year/month for each collection so that after a while I can make an offsite backup of any particular year/month folder. If they're all in one big huge directory... how do you do that? -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
