[Leica] Today is 8/9/10 and Lightroom screws up my file layout.

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Every time I've had photos missing in LR, it's my own fault for having moved
them.  I sort by folders (1001, 1002, this is 1008) and by date within the
folders.  If any thumbnails have a question mark in the corner, click on the
question mark and LR will ask you if you want to locate the missing photos.
 Find them in the explorer window that comes up and LR will link all of the
adjoining photos that are also missing.

I used Expressions Media and before that iView for my DAM software, but I
much prefer LR3.

Tina

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Frank Dernie
<Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:

> That is what I do. It got more difficult to do when I got Lightroom, since
> it wants to do something else, though I have no idea what it is. Since
> upgrading to Lightroom 3 about 1000 recent pictures have gone missing. I 
> can
> find them on my hard drive, thankfully, and I can try reimporting them, but
> Lightroom tells me they are already imported. If they are I am f*cked if I
> can find them from within Lightroom. However good the rendering etc may be 
> I
> am not sure I want to persist with Lightroom. Every time I manage to get it
> the way I want it the "upgrade" changes the way the screen and files are
> laid out and I can't find any of my pictures.
> I have been mega frustrated by Lightroom, it took me ages to get v1 laid
> out the way I liked it and v2 completely changed all my setting to a new
> standard layout which I did not like and never got quite as useful (to me)
> as v1 had been. Lightroom 3 has, it seems screwed my system even more
> royally than v2 did. There are good features and it works well technically,
> but the file handling and screen layout just do not suit me at all.
> Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
> Frank
>
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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