Comments on: 4 Signs That it's Time to Start From Scratch In Lightroom

By: Fred Williamson

Fred Williamson — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:14:45 +0000

You are a God sent angel for me. I was pulling out what little bit of hair that have on my head trying to figure out what to do with all the photos hat I have imported in Lightroom 3. I became more disorganized than before I started using lightroom. Thanks to you, I am starting to get a grip on things. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:54:28 +0000

I switched from Aperature to Lightroom when I got my new mac (desktop to laotop). I have all my photos stored on an external hard drive and need to know why I can’t see under the “Folders” section Why I can’t see all of the folders that contain my photos on my external hard drive. Do I have to import them from my external hard drive into Lightroom and if I did that wouldn’t that be creating another copy of each photo? Help…

By: Chris Hill

Chris Hill — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:14:40 +0000

I had about 4,000 images in my Lightroom library (categories, total, and collections) for some unknown reason they ALL just disappeared. Including unedited and edited images. How can I get them back?

By: Darrell

Darrell — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:26:05 +0000

The links would not open!

By: Matt T.

Matt T. — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:36:57 +0000

I am in roughly the same situation as Abe. Seeing this problem happening, I did get an external drive and have most of my photos on that, which are cataloged in Lightroom.

Saying that, there are some are my computer that are in Lightroom, some that aren’t, and some that are in iPhoto. ( I know, I know, I should stick to one program, but after we had our first son, we just got carried away importing pics).

I just want them all in one place. Again, like Abe asked, what is the best course of action for the files that have been processed and archived, as well as those that haven’t as of yet.

Thank you for your original post and for the help!

Matt T

By: Abe

Abe — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:53:36 +0000

Ok, so you linked to some videos, yes. But what you didn’t do is give us advice on how to actually START OVER in Lightroom!

I have over 2,000 photos in LR2, but they are from all over my computer, totally random, no keywords, nothing. If I want to start fresh, what is the best course of action to take? Keep in mind, most of what I want processed is already processed and saved/backed up. Should I just delete the current (and only) catalog and start over?

By: Roald

Roald — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:08:33 +0000

One… or several catalogs (?), If I choose several catalogs – can i search via metadata/keyword “across” all the catalogs ?

Why convert all to DNG files instead of keeping it as Jpeg or RAW ?

By: Gary Duncan

Gary Duncan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:01:15 +0000

Sorry…I said Scott, instead nof Matt.. I apologise Matt.

Gary

By: Gary Duncan

Gary Duncan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:40:59 +0000

G’day From Australia Scott.

I travel Australia quite a bit and do my work on Lightroom on a Laptop and I also make “Collections” which I find are easy if I want to add them to a Werbsite, or similar. That way, they are always the same if I have to do them again. So, at the moment I have about a dozen Collections.

Now, my question is, is there a way to export those Collections from my laptop to my Desktop when I get home, so I don’t have to double up on my work ???

Cheers

By: Gary Williams

Gary Williams — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:26:33 +0000

I keep one catalog for my entire collection–35,000 photos– and find that being consistent with keywording makes all the difference. I import, converting to DNG, and then assign keywords. It is a little tedious upfront but pays off in the long run. I do create separate catalogs for work assignments to make it easier to archive the results and remove them from my main hard drive.