Thanks Larry. Totally agree with both points: (1) file organization should be such that it helps people find images, not just so that LR or other software can find stuff. My brother has his CDs for example, well sorted by image capture date. Which is fine if you have his calendar and list of key event date times. And (2) I’ll test any possible solutions with a small sample.
I told my sister in law this evening that I had recovered 39,000+ Digital images from 2000-2011. And I showed her a small sample from 2004. Her reaction: “why did he keep those!?! I would have thrown those away!” In short, she won’t be compulsive about retaining everything -she wants reasonable access to key images of important times and places. (They both worked quite a bit outside the U.S. and did much travel…) so my.challenge is to help her ID and organize what is important to her, not necessarily what my brother would have wanted to preserve. If I had known I would be doing this, I would have started a year ago when my brother still had the mental capacity to help with this project! Stan Sent from my iPad > On Nov 11, 2022, at 7:10 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Nov 11, 2022, at 3:57 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> 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? > > Everybody has their own way of organizing their Lightroom Catalog. I would > strongly recommend that the files themselves are organized in a manner that > makes photos relatively easy to find without using lightroom. > > I don’t know for sure, but I strongly suspect that the catalog format is OS > independent, so long as the file trees are compatible. Again, I’d strongly > suggest testing with a smaller catalog first. > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected]. sent from Mirkwood > > > -- > %(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. -- %(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.
