From: David J Brooks
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the advice, Larry!
I've always imported my RAW files into directories with a YYYY-MM-DD naming
convention,
See that was my problem. My file would be 9-8-12-wedding and
subfolders of NEF and JPG. When i imported the folder i would juts ask
for nefs to be lodaed, not realizing until just recently, that that
was the folder now, nef ,not 9-8-12-wedding, nef
Live and learn
Dave
You should still have the original folders. AFAIK, LR doesn't actually
move anything, it just makes a database of virtual folders and points to
where the photos physically reside. Just re-import them and make
LightRoom use an appropriate naming/keywording/organizing convention.
Someone mentioned "the tyranny of physical hierarchies", which I think
gets it just backwards. The physical hierarchies allow me to be the boss
over the software. My photos are where I want them to be; where I told
the computer to put them.
It's LightRoom that's being tyrannical with its demand that everything
be organized by keywords. Keyword the hell out of everything, but leave
the folder structure the way that makes sense to you. That way, when
LightRoom crashes & burns, you'll still know where your photos are.
LightRoom's utility is directly proportional to how easily it allows me
to organize photos the way *I* want them organized.
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