Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can import photos into the Lightroom catalogue and tell Lightroom to keep them where they currently are, rather than have it move them elsewhere. It's an option on the import dialogue. Don't get too hung up on your existing folder. It's best to keep it as flat and as simple as possible and let Lightroom do the work for you. I have 3 folders - Camera raw, Scanner raw and one for jpegs from other sources such as my phone. I really only need one. All the information you've coded into your folder structure is held in the LR catalogue and it makes us of it for fast searching. The book The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook gives pretty good guidance about this stuff, and much else besides. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Richard Man > Sent: 14 December 2008 23:28 > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] OT: Quick LR2 tip? How to import? > > I broke down and got LR2. I think for the time being, I will > maintain my > folder structure, e.g. > > d:\photos\E-3\2008\dec\... > > with subdirs for different cameras and different months and > years. Should I > have LR2 to just import photos from the top level dir? e.g. > d:\photos? What > if I add more files to the subdirs? Do I do a re-import or > some kind of > synchronization command? > > Or would it be better if I create different catalogs for > different things, > e.g. may be by the "E-3" subdir etc.? > > What are the best practices? > > Thanks. > > > -- > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > // b: http://richardfman.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >