Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Sorry if this doesn't answer your questions directly. Unraveling a > slightly mucked up Lightroom catalog database takes time and > persistence. You need to look at a lot of things, one at a time, to > determine what the state of a particular catalog is and what files it > is looking at. Always look from catalog to file system, and then the > other way, to determine issues that need to be fixed.
It's so important to get Lightroom to set the catalogue database right from the start. I thought I understood that, and I also thought that at least the images I had from DSLRs were in a logical order. Well, it turns out that knowing where to find the images on the hard disc (or spare drive) to view is one thing, but having a logical catalogue which makes sense as you add to it, work on them - and make them available for web or printing is something quite different. Only after I got a sizeable amount of the catalogue sorted did I realise that not all the images were present, but the whole way I stored them on the computer no longer made sense. This became a circular problem, as I would have liked to have worked these issues out before making a Lightroom catalogue, yet until I was well into making it, I would not have known the issues! It's taken me a while to enable Lightroom to find where the 'missing' folders or files went, but I have learnt a lot about the software in the process, and I now have the files laid out in a manner which makes sense to me and can grow with as I add scans of slides and negatives, as well as my latest digital pictures. For someone organised, starting with Lightroom should be a big help, but if you don't know what it is you want until you start, you have to live with and correct the errors that you make! Malcolm -- 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.
