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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