Interesting. Agreed - that is EXACTLY what I don't want. When I played
with iPhoto the first time, it scanned for photos and imported them all,
and then flattened out my file structure. Took me months to reconstruct it
(yeah, yeah, I forgot to back it up first).
Looks like I have some more research to do.
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:44 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.
>
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