I'm just saying what I've seen reported. I don't use Lightroom, if you
'd like to give a full rebuttal to what others have said have at it. I
don't really have a dog in that fight. I looked at what it does and
decided I could do without it. In fact I used RSE until I upgraded to a
camera that wasn't supported, then moved on, except I still miss how
once I got used to it's interface, it just always gave me the results I
expected, and never allowed background processes to slow down my inputs.
On 12/7/2014 1:14 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
On 7 Dec 2014, at 16:53, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'll just ignore what everyone else has said and answer here.
There have been enough stories, even here, about Lightroom users wanting to for
one reason or another wanting to find their original files but not knowing how,
as Lightroom moved them somewhere, (imported them into it's database), and not
being able to figure out how to get them back.
This is simply not true. LR does not move your files anywhere unless you tell
it to. It does not 'import them into its database'. The files either stay where
you put them, or they go where you tell LR to put them.
LR creates an entry in its catalogue containing information about your files,
it does not put the files themselves into the catalogue or any other form of
database. The information in the catalogue includes the location of the files
at the time the catalogue entry was created and last updated.
When people have lost their files it's because they, or the pixies, have moved
the files outside of LR and not updated the catalogue. You can't blame LR for
not being able to find the files any more than you can blame a librarian if
some misguided reader moves all the Jeffery Archer novels into the Great
Literature section.
LR provides ways for you to deal with this situation and re-catalogue the files
when you remember where the pixies put them.
The pixies once moved a bunch of my files when I first started using LR. It
told me it couldn't find them, I looked for them. I found them, I sorted out
the catalogue. What I didn't do was live the rest of my life under the illusion
that a piece of dumb software had fucked it up, and lie about it to people who
ask straightforward questions.
B
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