Cory, I am sure that Tim's and Godfrey's approaches would do an admirable job at keeping two catalogs in synch, but to acheive the first part of your request to have lightroom remember develop settings, and keywords etc, shoot or convert into DNG files - lightroom then writes the metadata into the file itself so when you import it brings these settings with the images. Alternately, if you shoot in jpg or pef, you can write sidecar files and they get imported along with the image - just make sure you "save metadata to files" prior to import, or have lightroom do it automatically by setting this in your preferences.
The trick with this approach is for keywords to use a consistent set and hierarchy. You can either remember these, or better still export the keywords from the master and import into the clone so they are there ready for use when you come to keyword a new shoot. You apply the keywords in your macbook and when they come into your desktop they will match your existing ones or add any new ones. As for the collections - I don't think these are stored in the metadata so you may need to do manual assignment to collections when you get the images into the desktop Alastair On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Cory Waters <cbwat...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I have lightroom on my macbook and also on my desktop. I usually do most of > my work on my desktop but occsionally, like when I'm away from home, I'll > upload photos to my laptop to clear my flash cards and have a look at what's > I've got. It's no problem then to copy those photos over to my desktop on my > home network and import them into my desktop library. I just go to the > folder with the photos from the appropriate dates and plant it in the correct > folder on the other box. When I import them into the library, they get > coppied to my NAS for another safety copy. > The hitch here is: I'm likely to have made changes to the photo like > keywords, developing adjustments, or selection to a collection while I was > looking at them on the laptop. Is there any way to import the photos to my > desktop library with the changes? > I'd also like to mirror my collections from the laptop on the desktop. I'll > be picking photos from my trip to, I duno, lets say uhhhh Chicago? that I > want to put up on my Smugmug page but when I get home, the only way I know of > to get that "collection" on my desktop is to make a list of file #s in the > collection and manually select them again. > > I'm not sure if I've been clear here so poke me if you don't understand what > I'm after. I'll try again. > Thanks, > CW > > > -- > 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.
