Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I file my pictures on my hard drive under a descriptive title then with sub folders in date order. I have done this for years. It has always been easy to navigate to wherever I want in every piece of software I have ever used. Until Lightroom. When I got Lightroom first I found it moved all my pictures somewhere else of it's own choosing, duplicating them in the process, which was inconvenient and wasteful. I found eventually that I could import them without moving them and the file I had put them in showed up in Lightroom as a folder under the name I had given it. The first 10Gb of pictures I imported this way into lr3 are apparently in the catalog somewhere, since it won't let me re-import them, but I can not find them anywhere in the catalog, and my chosen named folder (where they still are stored physically I have checked) does not show up anywhere I have been able to find in Lightroom. I am therefore unable to do anything with them. Including simply look at them. God I hate programmers who think they know better than I do how I want to file things. Ahhhhhhhh! Frank Sent from my iPad On 10 Aug 2010, at 12:39, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > Every time I've had photos missing in LR, it's my own fault for having > moved > them. I sort by folders (1001, 1002, this is 1008) and by date within the > folders. If any thumbnails have a question mark in the corner, click on > the > question mark and LR will ask you if you want to locate the missing photos. > Find them in the explorer window that comes up and LR will link all of the > adjoining photos that are also missing. > > I used Expressions Media and before that iView for my DAM software, but I > much prefer LR3. > > Tina > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Frank Dernie > <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>wrote: > >> That is what I do. It got more difficult to do when I got Lightroom, since >> it wants to do something else, though I have no idea what it is. Since >> upgrading to Lightroom 3 about 1000 recent pictures have gone missing. I >> can >> find them on my hard drive, thankfully, and I can try reimporting them, >> but >> Lightroom tells me they are already imported. If they are I am f*cked if I >> can find them from within Lightroom. However good the rendering etc may >> be I >> am not sure I want to persist with Lightroom. Every time I manage to get >> it >> the way I want it the "upgrade" changes the way the screen and files are >> laid out and I can't find any of my pictures. >> I have been mega frustrated by Lightroom, it took me ages to get v1 laid >> out the way I liked it and v2 completely changed all my setting to a new >> standard layout which I did not like and never got quite as useful (to me) >> as v1 had been. Lightroom 3 has, it seems screwed my system even more >> royally than v2 did. There are good features and it works well >> technically, >> but the file handling and screen layout just do not suit me at all. >> Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. >> Frank >> >> > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information