Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-15 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
In a sense, yes. However, Bridge does not maintain an editing history or allow organization of files into collections and groupings independent of the file system. It simply records IPTC annotations and adds them to the processing parameter settings that Camera Raw writes into .XMP sidecar files

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Larry Colen
A related question: When moving a big directory tree, am I better moving the whole tree in lightroom? Or am I better off moving it with the file system, then just telling lightroom where the root of that tree is? On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Last weekend, when photographing

RE: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread John Sessoms
From: Larry Colen Last weekend, when photographing at a dojo event, I ran out of space on the harddrive that I've been using for my raw files. So, I put the raw files from the weekend onto an external drive. When I was at Costco today, they had a good price on a 3TB USB3 external drive, so I

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:09, John Sessoms wrote: I'm not a lightroom guru by any means, but I think that once you have all your files in the place you want them, you can make a new lightroom catalog that points to those files in the location you want it to point to. Oy - wouldn't a new

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Wrote a complete article on exactly this subject some time ago: http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ click on 08 - Lightroom, moving a large number of files G On Thursday, July 14, 2011, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Last weekend, when photographing at a dojo event, I ran out of space on

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Wrote a complete article on exactly this subject some time ago: http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ click on 08 - Lightroom, moving a large number of files Thanks. I wish I had asked first before starting. Changing halfway through

RE: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Bob W
[mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: 14 July 2011 10:35 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: lightroom question: moving/copy A related question: When moving a big directory tree, am I better moving the whole tree in lightroom? Or am I better off moving

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread John Sessoms
From: Charles Robinson On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:09, John Sessoms wrote: I'm not a lightroom guru by any means, but I think that once you have all your files in the place you want them, you can make a new lightroom catalog that points to those files in the location you want it to point to. Oy -

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:15 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I'd move it outside of LR (just because why induce the overhead of having some other application doing the moving) and then just tell LR they're over HERE now. Not sure how to relocate/point to a different copy when

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Wrote a complete article on exactly this subject some time ago: http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ click on 08 - Lightroom, moving a large number of files Thanks. I wish I had asked

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: The files have moved on the disk. And if I look in the libraries, as far as I can tell lightroom thinks that they've moved.  However for the past several hours I've had 4 operations in progress, each with a progress bar all

Re: lightroom question: moving/copy

2011-07-14 Thread John Sessoms
I'm pretty sure I don't understand most of that except I think you're saying the .lrcat file performs the function for the whole catalog of images that the .xmp files performed for individual images in Bridge? From: Godfrey DiGiorgi On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:15 AM, John Sessoms