[Leica] AARRGGHHH!!

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2010-11-24-14:03:53 Jim Nichols:
> I tried the trial version of Lightroom, and, I agree, it does a fine
> job of editing.  However, I could never overcome my frustration with
> its image organizing features, which choose "their desired path"
> regardless of what "I" chose to do.  I eventually went back to
> Elements, and have no regrets. I save my images in a manner that I
> choose to use.

Are you just talking about the naming and on-disk placement of image
files?  Because you can use Lightroom and not have to let it do
anything of that sort.  I copy new images onto the disk according to
my preferred folder structure and file naming conventions, then just
tell Lightroom to import them into the catalog in place (which I think
is the "Add" operation, as opposed to the Copy, Copy as DNG, or Move
flavors).  The original files then aren't copied or moved by Lightroom.

LR3 acquired some finer-grained controls for file renaming (and
convert/not-convert to DNG on ingest, and make a backup copy somewhere
else if desired as part of the process), but I'm still doing my
renaming pre-Lightroom because neither Lightroom nor Bridge seems to
support batch file renaming with sequence numbers per camera/date,
where the sequence number automatically starts back at 1 when the date
flips.

Or have I misunderstood what wasn't working for you about Lightroom
organization?  The other organization bits would be collections and
keyword tagging, which seem to pretty much do what one would expect.

 -Jeff