Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/6/07 7:37 AM, "dlr@dlridings.se" <dlr@dlridings.se> wrote: > It's a good start, Ed. I don't even want it to be a cataloguing program. I > don't even want help with the keywords, tags etc because Lightroom puts > that info in a database, not in the file, where it should be. That means > if I ever move my file, the database starts getting full of junk and I > have not use for it anyway. All you need to do is a) convert to DNG and b) turn on "Always write to XMP" in the prefs and 90% of the data will be written to the file (except for a few things that does not make sense (i.e a collection's print settings). It takes a bit of extra time to do this (for obvious reasons). > I think the key to remember is what you pointed out: Lightroom never > thought that your pictures would already be on a hard disk. The assumption > is that you will be offloading a camera or a memory card. Not really tru at all. LR only works from a folder on a hard disk. When it imports from a Card, it saves them to a folder, then imports them. If the images are already on the HD, then it can import them directly from there. > Now ... if you are NOT doing that ... things become counter intuitive and > very, very fragile, since moving things outside of Lightroom will > presumably corrupt the database (that is ok with me. It is just in the way > anyway). Moving things outside the DB wont' corrupt anything. It will just ask politely where the file went if you try to work with it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . w a d e h e n i n g e r u s e r e x p e r i e n c e a d o b e s y s t e m s , i n c