No, and we don't know whether Christine's backup is actually scattered, or even how she does her backups. I was speaking to all the possible cases in order to reconnect the LR catalog to an existing set of files.
Lightroom does no backup of your image files at all, that is completely up to the user to set up. Its built-in backup facility is designed to manage recovery of the catalog file, the most important bit of the LR system which contains all your annotation and editing work. LR accesses the original image file by reference, wherever and however you like to arrange them. (That's why it cannot back them up: it has no idea what your file system structure is or how to do an efficient backup, it only knows where the files referenced in the catalog are in the file system. ) On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > True. But is the scattered backup a function of lightroom? (I admit to being > a total dummy in regard to that software.) My bridge backups are merely > duplicates (and in some cases, triplicates) of the various drives. if a > drive is lost, I can immediately switch to the backup, and subsequently copy > it over to a new backup. > Paul -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
