On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > Just in case, you want to be aware of the following potential danger. > > Situation: > You have a catalog that contains a folder with sub-folders of photos > that you might have accidentally (or purposely but temporarily) moved away. > Those will have question marks next to them. > > Action: > You try to move the entire top folder to a different location from > within LR catalog. > All the sub-folders and information about files that were edited but are > temporarily not available will be lost, and LR does not issue any > warnings about that or ask what it should do with them. > > I had it that way, as I temporarily moved away a chunk of files from my > laptop. Now, as I upgraded the HDD, I decided to restore everything, > but first moved the catalog. What a mistake! > > Fortunately, I have a backup on the old HDD, but it is still unpleasant.
That's an interesting bug. Something of an edge case I think, but certainly an issue. I tested it. It happens when you move image files from within LR across volume boundaries, but not from one place to another within a volume. (It has nothing to do with moving the catalog, far as I can tell, it has to do with moving files around from within a catalog. The catalog and the file repository it refers to are two separate things.) To me, the behavior I'd want to see in this situation is that LR would move every referenced file it can find to the new location but leave the ones that it cannot find in place in the catalog with the old path information intact. That way, you could reinstate them into the new location, then update the catalog with their new containing folder, preserving all the data that you've annotated them with in the catalog. Have you filed a bug report/enhancement request with Adobe about it? -- 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.
