And Aperture does the same with a better, for me, UI.
However, as Ian says, the RAW capability sometimes takes a little longer to
arrive from Apple; but that depends on the popularity of the camera and whether
the manufacturer has provided the requisite information (which Fuji seems not
to have done with the X10).
Chris
On 3 Dec 2012, at 19:10, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
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