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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom 2 question - can one merge?
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun Sep 21 22:56:14 2008
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Thanks Harrison. It makes sense. One quick question: did you make any  
adjustments to the images on the laptop, and if so, were those  
correctly imported as well?

Cheers,
Nathan

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On Sep 21, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Harrison McClary wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> When I went to Washington last month I took my notebook, a windoze  
> box.  When I got home I imported the catalog I made into my desktop,  
> a Mac Pro and all was fine.  So yes you can do this.
>
> What I did was to create a catalog on the notebook of the trip,  
> downloaded the photos into a folder and saved the catalog into that  
> same folder.  When I got home I copied it all over to my desktop  
> hard drive then went into the Lightroom launching my master catalog  
> and went to the menu: FILE: IMPORT FROM CATALOG and let it do its  
> thing and all was there including exif data and editing.
>
> Hope this makes sense to you if not ask me to clarify.
>
>
> Have a fun trip
>
>
> Nathan wrote:
>> Here is the scenario: on Tuesday I drive to Bath with my son,  
>> returning to Alicante on Friday. Of course I will take pictures on  
>> the way, and on my way home I will have a lot of time to kill,  
>> first 4 1/2 hours on the ferry from Poole to Cherbourg, and then a  
>> couple of hours at a cheap Etap hotel on the motorway in France. So  
>> I want to use some of that time to process my images. I will have  
>> my Powerbook G4 with me, running Lightroom 2.
>>
>> Now, the question is: when I get home, I will want to merge the  
>> images processed during the trip into my main LR database on my  
>> desktop iMac. Can this be done in some reasonable way, or is my  
>> only option to export the images with the adjustments embedded to  
>> DNG files, and then re-import them on the iMac? In other words,  
>> does LR 2 have a facility for merging two LR databases?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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