Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Clive. I think I did exactly as you suggested, but don't remember seeing all the development options upon re-import to the desktop. I'll experiment later today. Thanks again, Bob Sent from my iPad > On Jan 2, 2015, at 6:28 AM, Clive Moss <Clive at moss.net> wrote: > > Try this, the kosher approach.: > 1) Import your images into the desktop Lightroom catalog. > 2) Flag, etc, as needed. > 3) Export as catalog from the desktop and move the exported catalog, (the > whole new folder that is created) to your laptop > 4) Process on laptop > 5) On the desktop, File>Import from Another Catalog and select the the > laptop catalog. You get an option box with choices regarding what to do > with new Photos (which should only appear if you round trip to Photoshop or > Nik or whatever) and what to do with changed existing photographs. You can > choose to replace metadata and develop settings only, or do nothing, or > replace everything. You can also preserve your old settings as a virtual > copy. > > I always have "Automatically write changes into XMP" checked. > > If you move the actual image folder using the finder instead of Lightroom > you can cause complications. If you really want to do that, you can move > (not copy) the image folders to the laptop work on them there, and then > move them back to the desktop. DO NOT IMPORT THEM TO LiGHTROOM. When you > open Lightroom, if you moved them to exactly the same location, they will > be there. If you moved them to a different location or changed the folder > name, you will need to go right click on the folder name in Lightroom, and > go the "Find Missing Folder" routine. > > Hope this is clear and that it helps. > > -- > Clive > clive.moss.net > >> On Thu Jan 01 2015 at 9:19:40 PM Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm having some issues with my LR workflow that I'm hoping someone may be >> able to help with. >> >> What I'm trying to do is load all images from my SD card onto my desktop >> computer (no problem: I can do that...) >> >> I then want to take files that I've elected (flagged) and move them to my >> laptop for development. >> >> Then, after working on them on the laptop, move them back into their >> original folder on my desktop. >> >> Any ideas on how to do this? LR seems to want to import them separately >> and >> make duplicates, rather than simply replacing the unprocessed file on the >> desktop with the newly processed file on the laptop. >> >> Thanks for any ideas, >> Bob >> -- >> Bob Adler >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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