Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog 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 >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > -- > Harrison McClary > Harrison McClary Photography > harrison@mcclary.net > http://www.mcclary.net > ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography > http://www.imagestocksouth.com > Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: > http://www.mcclary.net/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information