[Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> 2) Import the images into Lightroom, with the "convert to DNG" option. I
> have a default directory which is the destination for those DNG files.

This is where we work differently. I don't have a default directory. I
have a directory for every year and under that directory,
subdirectories for each month of the year.

So you only had to specify one time where you wanted things. I have to
change it every month, and believe me, it is frustrating.

Some of it has to do with what Brian mentioned, the way LR works
asynchronously. It is not self-evident if LR will create a directory
in the one you have chosen or if it will just dump the DNG files
there. If you get it right the first time and then always use that as
a default, things should be fine. But when I change it every month ...
it gets messy.

The real mess starts when you end up with a subdirectory you didn't
want, but which is at the right level, and you decide the delete the
one you wanted to have your images in and then rename the one where
they really ended up (inherited from the CF/SD card) to what you
really wanted (08Aug08, for example). I've never found the option for
renaming folders in LR. But it's been months since I tried.

Daniel