Moose,
I'm not sure why you feel that LR's file structure wasn't compatible with
yours...in my experience, LR imports when and where you tell it to.
Leo Wesson
leowesson.com
> On Jul 12, 2015, at 00:30, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have for a long time wanted to get my images into a catalog app. I tried
> IView, which became MS something, which became Phase One something and also
> part of their converter/editor, but never felt comfortable with it.
>
> I've wanted to try the LR catalog, but have been stymied by an
> incompatibility between their import engine and my file structure. For some
> years, I've been shooting Raw + JPEG. Image files are in folders by camera,
> then date. The date folder has the JPEGs, with subfolders for Raw, processed,
> web size, video, etc.
>
> I'm not sure why I started doing this. I imagine I had reason(s); but that
> doesn't matter. What matters is that I couldn't import only the subfolders
> into LR, so I'd get two of each image, really annoying.
>
> So I bit the bullet, and eliminated the original JPEGs. At first I couldn't
> figure out how, looked at all sorts of apps. Then I realized it was a perfect
> task for old fashioned DOS commands. With little .bat files using the
> explorer Send function, I can now almost instantly convert one or many
> folders at once. After a full backup of the image disk, I quickly got rid of
> all those JPEGs and elevated the Raw files to the date folder.
>
> It did take LR a while to absorb, index and thumbnail almost 55,000 images,
> but it worked nicely. Still got my scanned images and a couple of other
> oddities to straighten out and import, but the vast majority are done.
>
> My most recent impetus to of this has been my habit for several years of
> carrying two cameras with different zooms, flipping back and forth. Viewing
> the combined results wasn't really possible in any convenient way. That part
> has worked wonderfully. I can easily see all the shots from a day in time
> order, without regard to camera used.
>
> The unexpected benefit, which I've already used a few times, is the Map view.
> As most of the 'serious' images I've made in the last few years are geocoded,
> I can see together all the images from numerous visits to the same places
> just by going there on the map. This is quite marvelous! I love the way it
> aggregates and disaggregates to different levels as the map zooms in and out.
>
> Now all I need is a competent, free intern to keyword everything. :-)
>
> And the time to manually geocode some older stuff, sigh. The keywording will
> take care of some of that, but I'd like to get the major stuff on the map.
>
> Nice to have a start on being able to find things.
>
> Orderly Moose
>
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