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Subject: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Sun Aug 17 14:01:38 2008
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Daniel Ridings wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> 
>wrote:
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>>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.
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>
>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.
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you don't need that with LR, it does it for you
follow Nathan's method, but just use a large enough HD, no trees and 
roots or inherited reflexes from MS DOS, and everything will be fine for 
a loooong time
phx

>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
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