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Re: [OM] A reason to like LR (eek!)

Subject: Re: [OM] A reason to like LR (eek!)
From: Leowesson <leowesson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 08:50:44 -0500
Moose, 

I'm not sure why you feel that LR's file structure wasn't compatible with 
yours...in my experience, LR imports when and where you tell it to. 

Leo Wesson
leowesson.com

> On Jul 12, 2015, at 00:30, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have for a long time wanted to get my images into a catalog app. I tried 
> IView, which became MS something, which became Phase One something and also 
> part of their converter/editor, but never felt comfortable with it.
> 
> I've wanted to try the LR catalog, but have been stymied by an 
> incompatibility between their import engine and my file structure. For some 
> years, I've been shooting Raw + JPEG. Image files are in folders by camera, 
> then date. The date folder has the JPEGs, with subfolders for Raw, processed, 
> web size, video, etc.
> 
> I'm not sure why I started doing this. I imagine I had reason(s); but that 
> doesn't matter. What matters is that I couldn't import only the subfolders 
> into LR, so I'd get two of each image, really annoying.
> 
> So I bit the bullet, and eliminated the original JPEGs. At first I couldn't 
> figure out how, looked at all sorts of apps. Then I realized it was a perfect 
> task for old fashioned DOS commands. With little .bat files using the 
> explorer Send function, I can now almost instantly convert one or many 
> folders at once. After a full backup of the image disk, I quickly got rid of 
> all those JPEGs and elevated the Raw files to the date folder.
> 
> It did take LR a while to absorb, index and thumbnail almost 55,000 images, 
> but it worked nicely. Still got my scanned images and a couple of other 
> oddities to straighten out and import, but the vast majority are done.
> 
> My most recent impetus to of this has been my habit for several years of 
> carrying two cameras with different zooms, flipping back and forth. Viewing 
> the combined results wasn't really possible in any convenient way. That part 
> has worked wonderfully. I can easily see all the shots from a day in time 
> order, without regard to camera used.
> 
> The unexpected benefit, which I've already used a few times, is the Map view. 
> As most of the 'serious' images I've made in the last few years are geocoded, 
> I can see together all the images from numerous visits to the same places 
> just by going there on the map. This is quite marvelous! I love the way it 
> aggregates and disaggregates to different levels as the map zooms in and out.
> 
> Now all I need is a competent, free intern to keyword everything. :-)
> 
> And the time to manually geocode some older stuff, sigh. The keywording will 
> take care of some of that, but I'd like to get the major stuff on the map.
> 
> Nice to have a start on being able to find things.
> 
> Orderly Moose
> 
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