That toggle switch is just slightly hidden...
It wants to catalog all your pictures into one library but that just means
filling its SQLlite database with the file/folder names and metadata. All
the picture files stay where they are and LR will use your file/folder
structure.
Jez
On 31 July 2012 14:10, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My feelings about Lightroom too. I'm on my 3rd version but so far don't
> seem to even be able to get started. It desperately wants to put my
> photos into its version of a library which I desperately do NOT want it
> to do. I'm told I don't have to do that and maybe even how. But if so
> I've already forgotten by the time I get there and am uninspired to
> research how to defeat what it really wants to do. It needs a toggle
> switch... turn library mode OFF! Use the file structure I already have!
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 7/30/2012 1:45 PM, Moose wrote:
> > I understand what you are getting at. In the case of LR, I've never
> > gotten far enough along to notice such things. I have never liked the
> > interface and operational paradigm, nor its close cousins in other
> > converter/editors. Partially a matter of personal taste, I'm sure,
> > but also the frustration of wanting to do things I can do in PS, but
> > not in LR.
> >
> > Perhaps I will have an epiphany one day, but until then ...:-)
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