Background: my brother, who is the one who introduced me to Pentax 40+ years ago, is slowly failing. Later stages of Parkinson’s with all that implies. He was always an incredibly organized person. E.g., he scanned every slide he ever took, has them neatly filed and labeled in order in two filing cabinet drawers. And documented in a spreadsheet as to who is in each picture, what camera was used, etc. The tifs/jpgs were stored open CD-ROMs. He has no recollection of all of this, has no clue where to look for missing files.
Side note: Those records and files take us through 2000-2001, then we have transition to digital. I have found and recovered jpgs/DNGs for many (most?) of his digital images through 2011. At which point he switched from a Compaq to an HP desktop. All of what I have found is from his backups made during that transition. My sister-in-law and I would very much like to find the missing files/images from 2011 to 2017 or 2018 when he stopped being able to travel and take photos. But, to the Question: Now that I have his scanned slides and digital images on a hard drive, readable on their HP and on my Mac, I thought I would create a new Lightroom Catalog on my system as a way to review/preview his images. And then I would export-as-catalog to an external drive, and then import that to their new HP. So, would this work? Will LR on a Windows machine read an LR catalog created via LR on a Mac? Help, suggestions welcome… Stan -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
