Imports into Lightroom

[Jon Warwick]

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8 hours ago, zeitz said:

 

Have you compared the Lightroom Library module and Bridge as Jaap suggested?

Hi, yes, I am reading around the subject of Bridge .....my “albums” on my iMac went from iPhoto —> Apple’s Photos, which appear to me to essentially be databases with sub-folder after endless sub-folder when I look at how they’re stored on my hard-drive, so it’s not yet clear to me how easy that would be to migrate over to a platform like Bridge (ie, if I could end up with corruptions popping up), but certainly reading into it!

[zeitz]

If you are only dealing with .dng files, the edits you made are stored within the .dng file itself.  If you are using other raw formats, the edits are stored in a .xmp sidecar file; you can lose the edits if you don't move the .xmp file along with the sidecar.  (Note that Lightroom and Photoshop lets you select internal storage of edits in .dng files or .xmp sidecars with the .dng file.  In the Adobe software the sidecar is written in the same location as the raw file.  In other editing programs, the software puts the sidecar in a variety of different locations.  Capture One came with my M8; it opened new folders all over the place.  My resistance to Capture One is based on that experience.)

Bridge can work like Lightroom and have catalogs/libraries/albums/collections/whatevers; but Bridge can also work like classic programs where you just select the folder of interest and open the file by double clicking on it.  So leave your albums were they are on your hard drive and access that folder directly from Bridge.  If you want to start a new folder/file system, use Save As with your new folder location as you gradually transition your old work from Photos to a professional file management organization.

If you want to do a bulk file relocation using Finder, make sure you use Copy; never use Move.  That way your originals remain in place until you are satisfied that no file corruption occurred during Copy and you are ready to delete the originals.

In the future never use Photos.  Use a card reader and copy files directly from your flash card to your file structure on your computer.  If you want to get files from an iPhone, always use Image Capture which is a standard Apple Application that is loaded along with the macOS.

iPhoto and Photos are toy applications for toy computers, optimized for grandmas.  So any decision on file storage is taken from the user.  I will admit Apple has tried to improve Photos to make up for abandoning Aperture users.  But the result is underwhelming.

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