Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My own question answered by doing: it worked as Harrison described, and worked perfectly. Thanks again! 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 22, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information