What sort of access do you want to those pictures, and when you say 'roll the pictures off', what do you mean - are you moving them from the laptop's internal disk to an external disk and also deleting them from the LR catalogue, or are you keeping them in the catalogue?
When you import files into LR it adds an entry for each file into its catalogue. The entry includes a preview of the photograph. You can choose the resolution of the preview. The catalogue entry also includes a pointer to the place on disk where the picture is stored. If you move the file outside of LR to another disk then LR won't be able to find it, but it will still have the catalogue entry and the preview data. You can continue to use this for everything except the Develop module. An option you could consider is to keep the catalogue on the internal disk, but use external disks to store the photographs. Then very year you just use a new external disk. The catalogue retains continuity and if you do need to use the Develop module for any of the photos on disconnected external disks, just reconnect them. Bob > > Marnie, > The problem is not getting them into a lightroom collection. > The problem is what happens when I roll the calandar > quarter's worth of pictures off of the laptop. > I will lose access to all my favorites for that time period. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, <eactiv...@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 10/11/2009 10:54:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > > rf.sulli...@gmail.com writes: > > OK, Here's a question. > > In Photoshop Elements 5.0 I kept/keep a file of 2008 best and 2009 > > best photos. > > That way, I can reference and print them without digging them up. > > With the K-7, I've shifted to Lightroom 2.5. > > The laptop quickly fills with new images, and I have to > roll off past > > quarters. > > So how do I establish a place where I can keep the best of 2009 > > around for a long time. > > Do I copy my favorites to a separate folder? > > That's what I did in PS Elements. > > Regards, Bob S. > > > > ============ > > Why not just grab them into a LR collection? That way you > don't have > > to copy them anywhere. They are ready and available in a > collection. > > > > Uh, how to do that, well, consult Lightroom Help or something. > > > > Marnie :-) > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used > > when we created them. Albert Einstein > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
