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Subject: [Leica] OT: Lightroom Workflow Help
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 08:14:03 -0800
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Thanks Clive. I think I did exactly as you  suggested, but don't remember 
seeing all the development options upon re-import to the desktop. I'll 
experiment later today. 
Thanks again,
Bob

Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 2, 2015, at 6:28 AM, Clive Moss <Clive at moss.net> wrote:
> 
> Try this, the kosher approach.:
> 1) Import your images into the desktop Lightroom catalog.
> 2) Flag, etc, as needed.
> 3) Export as catalog from the desktop and move the exported catalog, (the
> whole new folder that is created) to your laptop
> 4) Process on laptop
> 5) On the desktop, File>Import from Another Catalog and select the the
> laptop catalog. You get an option box with choices regarding what to do
> with new Photos (which should only appear if you round trip to Photoshop or
> Nik or whatever) and what to do with changed existing photographs. You can
> choose to replace metadata and develop settings only, or do nothing, or
> replace everything. You can also preserve your old settings as a virtual
> copy.
> 
> I always have "Automatically write changes into XMP" checked.
> 
> If you move the actual image folder using the finder instead of Lightroom
> you can cause complications. If you really want to do that, you can move
> (not copy) the image folders to the laptop work on them there, and then
> move them back to the desktop. DO NOT IMPORT THEM TO LiGHTROOM. When you
> open Lightroom, if you moved them to exactly the same location, they will
> be there. If you moved them to a different location or changed the folder
> name, you will need to go right click on the folder name in Lightroom, and
> go the "Find Missing Folder" routine.
> 
> Hope this is clear and that it helps.
> 
> --
> Clive
> clive.moss.net
> 
>> On Thu Jan 01 2015 at 9:19:40 PM Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm having some issues with my LR workflow that I'm hoping someone may be
>> able to help with.
>> 
>> What I'm trying to do is load all images from my SD card onto my desktop
>> computer (no problem: I can do that...)
>> 
>> I then want to take files that I've elected (flagged) and move them to my
>> laptop for development.
>> 
>> Then, after working on them on the laptop, move them back into their
>> original folder on my desktop.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to do this? LR seems to want to import them separately 
>> and
>> make duplicates, rather than simply replacing the unprocessed file on the
>> desktop with the newly processed file on the laptop.
>> 
>> Thanks for any ideas,
>> Bob
>> --
>> Bob Adler
>> 
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