Good to know. That helps quite a bit.
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lightroom does not require a filing system or impose one on you. All it
> does is index your photos where they are in your filing system. It is
> importing a preview and the information about the photo. LR never moves
> your photos unless you tell it to. You can use whatever file system you
> have. I still use the one I set up 30 years ago with PhotoTrack software.
> The reason the book doesn't discuss the Library structure is that there is
> not one. Wherever you have your photos - on your hard drive or external
> hard drives or the cloud - all LR does is index them and note where they
> are. That is what the Library is - a visual and metadata searchable
> database of your system of photos. If you delete or change the photos in
> another program, all you have to do is tell LR to synchronize the folder.
> It will find all of the changes, add new photos, delete missing ones, and
> update the metadata.
>
> Tina
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > Everyone it telling you Lightroom despite your statement that you don't
> > want to be forced into a filing system. I've had 3 versions of
> > Lightroom but have never really made use of it because the very first
> > thing is wants to do is "import" my many tens of thousands of images
> > from a file structure I have known and loved for many years (works for
> > me). I bought Tina's recommended book on Lightroom thinking maybe it
> > would finally make clear something about library structure for Lightroom.
> >
> > But I was astounded that there is hardly any discussion at all of
> > library structure except for the warnings I anticipated and was afraid
> > of... (my rephrasing, not a quote) *DO NOT* delete from, add to or
> > reorder the physical storage structure of the image database *without
> > going through Lightroom*. That makes perfect sense if you *only* use
> > Lightroom but also means that you can't add or delete things with
> > PhotoShop or anything else outside the Lightroom world without leaving
> > Lightroom unaware of and needing to be updated to the changes.
> >
> > Someone has told me (on this list and maybe more than once) that
> > Lightroom can use my existing structure but I don't really know how to
> > to that nor do I know how to work around the *do it only through
> > Lightroom* problem.
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
> > On 12/3/2012 10:18 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
> > > I'm about to get one of the new iMacs, and I'm thinking about new photo
> > > software. I had been running an old copy of Photoshop CS2 that I had
> > > inherited, which will no longer run.
> > >
> > > For me, Photoshop is overkill. I was considering Aperture, but not if
> it
> > > forces a filing system like iPhoto does. My file structure makes sense
> > to
> > > me.
> > >
> > > Thos of you who use Photoshop Essentials - are you happy? Does it
> > > accomplish the basic necessities? I'm not going to do super-fancy
> stuff,
> > > just the basic cropping/color correction/brightness-contrast/light
> > > retouching stuff.
> > >
> > > I'm open to suggestions. Whatever it is needs to run on OSX Mountain
> > > Lion. And preferably understands Olympus ORF (I could use the Viewer
> > > software if necessary.)
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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