Hi Christine - After you view the videos on adobe's site. Kelby's book is probably all you need. I haven't found any to be more to the point. I'd say get the most recent version. Martin Evening's book is even more detailed. I only use them for reference.
One thing you might want to try. Kelbytraining.com has a great video course. I think it's about 8 hours long. You could subscribe for 1 month for $25. They also have free day passes. Get up early, especially on a weekday, and grab a 24 hour free pass. You can watch anything you want for 24 hours. They usually put about 50 of them on the home page every day. It's a little after noon and today's batch is gone. gs George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > I greatly appreciate everyone's help here, but things are a mess with this > catalogue. The more I look try to compare the two folder structures on the 2 > main drives, the more messy it seems to be. I think I'll ignore this for a > few days, and try again when I've stopped weeping :-). > > I think it's time to rethink my workflow and photo management system, and I > think I need some tutorials on advanced photo management and catalogues > skills. It's to the adobe videos for me, and perhaps a purchase of a book. > > If anyone knows of a good book for Lightroom 4, I'd appreciate the > recommendation. I have the Scott Kelby book for the early Lightroom version > (1 or 2 ), and thought it ok, but I found him a bit wordy. If there's > another book you'd recommend by a different author who gets right to the > point, I'd be very grateful. > > Cheers, Christine > > > > > > On Jul 11, 2012, at 7:29 AM, George Sinos wrote: > >> Christine - here's a video that shows how to find missing or relocated >> files and folders. >> >> <http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-4/import-moving-folders-around-after-the-fact/> >> >> If you have the same structure on both drives, It takes longer to >> watch the explanation than to do it. >> >> Just a tip for people organizing things in Lightroom. Put all of your >> files and folders under one top level folder. Call it "photo library" >> of whatever you would like. This makes it easy to move everything to >> a different drive. >> >> gs >> >> George Sinos >> -------------------- >> gsi...@gmail.com >> www.georgesphotos.net >> plus.georgesinos.com >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Brian Walters <apathy...@lyons-ryan.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Quoting Eric Featherstone <eric.featherst...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> I believe there's a rather simpler solution. Your lightroom catalogue >>>> has stored within it the location each photo and these of course all >>>> point to a drive called "Lightroom 1". If your thrid drive reeally is >>>> an identical copy of "Lightroom 1" then name it identically too (i.e. >>>> Lightroom 1), then start Lightroom and it will all just work. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> That was my first thought as well but not being a Lightroom user I wasn't >>> sure if there was something in the database structure that wouldn't allow it >>> to work. >>> >>> In my Studioline image management system I did precisely that when I needed >>> to create a separate backup of the database. Is there any reason why it >>> wouldn't work with Lightroom? >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> Brian Walters >>> Western Sydney Australia >>> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> David's method perfectly valid but is just a little more involved, >>>> needing to relocate the files from within Lightroom. I don't have >>>> Lightroom here in front of me but from memory you would right click >>>> (or maybe apple or option click on a mac?) on the topmost folder level >>>> in the left hand pane and choose "locate", then browse to your >>>> Lightroom 2 disk in the dialogue that comes up. >>>> >>>> Eric. >>>> >>>> On 11 July 2012 09:22, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm not sure how to "simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2". I just >>>>> tried to figure it out, but I'm lost. The only option I see is to reimport >>>>> each folder on Lightroom 2 drive into the catalogue, but I'd still have >>>>> the >>>>> original "missing file" and I'd have to rerender the photo. Each >>>>> individual folder of photos on Lightroom 2 does not appear in the Folders >>>>> panel on the left hand side of the Library module. It does for Lightroom >>>>> 1, >>>>> which was the drive the catalogue was linked to. Is this the problem? >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, Dave, for not understanding your directions, but I do appreciate >>>>> your help, It's late. I think I'll try this again in the morning, but I >>>>> don't feel confident I'll have better luck. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, Christine >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:47 AM, David Parsons wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Do not delete the catalog or the images in the catalog. That will >>>>>> erase any keywording and image editing that you may have done. >>>>>> >>>>>> If the backup (Lightroom 2) has the identical files that Lightroom 1 >>>>>> had, then simply point your catalog to Lightroom 2, and make Lightroom >>>>>> 3 a new backup (I would seriously think about using a different naming >>>>>> scheme). >>>>>> >>>>>> If Lightroom 2 has the same files, but they aren't in the same folder >>>>>> structure, then it will be more tedious to link the files (but >>>>>> infinitely more preferable to re-importing and re-doing all your >>>>>> previous work). >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Christine Aguila >>>>>> <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Everyone: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm seeking advice. Here's the situation: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1) I've been using 2 external drives for my photos. I have called >>>>>>> these drives Lightroom 1 (main one which has been linked to a catalogue >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> 8,000 plus photos) and Lightroom 2 (back up). Well, Lightroom 1 stopped >>>>>>> responding. It's been replaced, and I have named the replacement >>>>>>> external >>>>>>> drive Lightroom 3. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2) Now, all the photos in my catalogue of 8,000 plus photos are >>>>>>> identified in Lightroom as "missing." As Lightroom users know, this is >>>>>>> because Lightroom can't find the external drive Lightroom 1 (the drive >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> died). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, my question is, what would our experienced Lightroom users do in >>>>>>> this situation? Would you >>>>>>> a) delete all images in the catalogue and reimport from Lightroom 2 >>>>>>> (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)? >>>>>>> OR >>>>>>> b) delete the catalogue itself, create a new catalogue, then import >>>>>>> photos from Lightroom 2 (and copy photos to Lightroom 3)? >>>>>>> OR >>>>>>> c) something different? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also, lately I've been thinking of going through all my photos and >>>>>>> really weed out the junk, so I thought that since I have to deal with >>>>>>> this >>>>>>> photo management mess, I'd also do some weeding at the same time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, Christine >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- 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.
