[Leica] hmm err how to manage offline cds / dvds in LR2

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

At 09:09 PM 8/17/2008, you wrote:
>Tina,
>
>How do you manage offline files that reside on DVDs or CDs?
>
>I'm only seeing how to manage offline hard drive volumes...
>
>ARHHH....
>
>Duane

Duane -  I'm only halfway through the book so there may be another 
way to do this ;-) , but this is what's working for me now.  When you 
import photos to Lightroom, a preview and all of the metadata and 
EXIF is stored in the main catalog.  For a DVD, for example, named 
61949_486 or Honduran Children_118, just include the DVD name in the 
keywords that you assign to all of the photos imported from that 
DVD.  Then when you do a search of all of the photos in the database 
for a Honduran girl in a red dress (other keywords that you would 
have assigned) the photo preview comes up with all of the information 
attached to it. There in the photo information is the name of the DVD 
where the photo is located.

I used to label my DVDs by country and subject, and all of my old 
ones are still labeled that way, but from now on everything will be 
labeled by date because that is automatically included in the EXIF 
information and you wouldn't have to add it in LR keywords.  For 
example, a DVD labeled 080817 would include all of the photos made on 
August 17, 2008, and that date would automatically be in the photo 
information for all of the photos on that DVD.

Hope that makes sense.  It's all pretty logical when you think about it.

Tina

Tina