I am a fairly long-time user and lover of Lightroom.
It pains me to say that I've never taken advantage of using it the way
it really ought to be used which is to say as a cataloging program as
well as a processing program and that is why I am emailing for advice.
I'd like to change that.
I just purchased a new Mac Pro big beefy computer with scads of ram
and heaps of hard drive space and I need some direction on how best to
take advantage of the ability to catalog my images.
I have an internal 320 gig drive as well as two internal 500 gig
drives. I have 8 external 500 gig drives. Storage space is not a
problem.
In the past on my old computer, when I finished a shoot I would
download the images to my one internal hard drive, import them into
Lightroom from the desktop, have a look at them, make my picks, delete
my bad shots and rank my keepers.
THEN I would move that folder to an external drive and back it up to
yet another external drive then delete the images from my desktop.
This broke the link in the Lightroom Library to my images.
I'm trying to avoid that from happening again now that I have so much
more internal space.
I can download direct to one of my 500 gig drives. Would that be the
thing to do? What happens when that drive becomes full?
Here are my concerns: in less than a year I filled an entire 500 gig
drive with client images. I am happy to continue buying more drives
and swap out the old when it gets full but does Lightroom keep track
of what drives images are on in the event I need to get back to an
image on a drive that has been removed? If so, how?
If I keyword images as I go and then do a search for images of say,
"kids with hats" will Lightroom direct me to those images even if they
are on different drives, one or two of them perhaps not attached at
the time the search was run?
I really appreciate any help anyone can give on this. I'm certainly
happy to read about how to set this program up to really take
advantage of it if someone can direct me to a site that gives good
advice.
Thanks so much,
Lea
two wheels and a helmet
www.leamurphy.com
