RE: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-21 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Charles Robinson On Jul 20, 2012, at 15:45, Bob W wrote: I put all the raw files in a single folder with no hierarchical organisation beneath it. Lightroom itself builds the date-based indexes (which may be

RE: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-21 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi [...] Everyone needs to put the image files into some sort of meaningful directory structure. I don't. I put all the raw files in a single folder with no hierarchical organisation beneath it.

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-21 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Well, actually you do. You just choose to use the degenerate case of a single file directory for an arbitrary number of files which I didn't mention. That is still some sort of *meaningful* directory structure, although not a

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-20 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 19, 2012, at 10:06 PM, David Parsons wrote: Why are you reimporting the files? If you only deleted the files, and the pictures are still in your catalog, just re-point them to the backup files. They were gone. As in not on the disk, not in the catalog. gone. I think I have things

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-20 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: The weird thing was that if files were in the active directory tree, then lightroom would find the duplicates and do just fine not importing them. However, with them in the backup_by_date_imported directory tree, it just

RE: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-20 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi I know that there are people who claim that you don't need to sort the raw files into meaningful directories, and that's just fine until you make a disk of jpegs for someone who wants to find something

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-20 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: You may need to make a distinction here between where you put the raw files and where you put any 'finished' output files for distribution. If you're not using LR as the management system for the output files then, duh, you

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-20 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jul 20, 2012, at 15:45, Bob W wrote: I put all the raw files in a single folder with no hierarchical organisation beneath it. Lightroom itself builds the date-based indexes (which may be implemented as folders, but that's of no concern to me), and I use a combination of keywords and

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
It is and it isn't. With successive versions of Lightroom, I've found its ability to recognize duplicates has become looser ... possibly because Adobe received feedback that it was excluding new files that had the same filename or other metadata as existing files in the catalog had, I suspect.

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-19 Thread Larry Colen
The weird thing was that if files were in the active directory tree, then lightroom would find the duplicates and do just fine not importing them. However, with them in the backup_by_date_imported directory tree, it just imports everything. I know that there are people who claim that you don't

Re: Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-19 Thread David Parsons
Why are you reimporting the files? If you only deleted the files, and the pictures are still in your catalog, just re-point them to the backup files. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I ran into some problems running out of space on my computer. In the

Lightroom 4, reimport from backups?

2012-07-18 Thread Larry Colen
I ran into some problems running out of space on my computer. In the process of trying to straighten things out, I may have deleted some files that I didn't mean to. My plan was to point the import menu at the backup files that lightroom makes, sorted into backup by date. Unfortunately, even