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  1. frostbytes

    Work flow with a retoucher?

    Thank you.
  2. frostbytes

    Work flow with a retoucher?

    I've started working with a retoucher to edit a moderate volume of photos every day. So far I've been uploading the photos to Dropbox. She downloads them, retouches in Lighroom, and uploads them back to Dropbox. The process is slow (since I'm sending GBs of RAW files) and if I need to make...
  3. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    It wouldn't be too onerous to rename all the folders using a file naming utility but I'd rather not drop the YYYY from the folder name. I'm anal like that too. :)
  4. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    I like having the folders containing photos complete with year. That's how I've been doing it for years and that's worked well for me -- at least until the "bug" with Lightroom. It might be redundant to have YYYY > YYYY-MM-DD but that also makes the folder name independent of high-level...
  5. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    It sounds like a split card between people who think you shouldn't and those who think it's okay.
  6. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    This is a big move. Almost 700,000 photos.
  7. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    It sounds like I should break this into two steps: 1) reorganize the folders on drive D, 2) copy the data to drive E and use "find missing folder" on that?
  8. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    I have multiple levels of backups (Drobo devices, cloud, etc.). I'm too paranoid not to. :-) And yes, I do use a third-party utility (Teracopy) to move/copy files, which allows for a verification step. It sounds like Lightroom would let me using the "find missing folder" on, for instance...
  9. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    That's promising. My catalog is substantially larger -- almost 700,000 images. Unless I know for certain that Lightroom's folder moving functionality contains robust error-checking I'm hesitant to move that much data within Lightroom. Does anyone here know for sure about error checking? I...
  10. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    As part of my reorganization, I do want to switch drives (from D to E). Maybe I should reorganize everything outside of Lightroom first?
  11. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    Thanks for the suggestion. That would help avoid the tedious task of clicking "find missing folder" hundreds of times. Is there any downside to move the folders inside of Lightroom? I have a healthy level of paranoia about the potential for data corruption.
  12. frostbytes

    Moving files?

    Because of ongoing problems with Lightroom's folder view (hello Adobe?) I've decided to reorganize the physical folder structure for my hundreds of thousands of photos. My current folder structure looks like this: YYYY-MM-DD Shoot Name x many shoots I'll be reorganizing to this format...
  13. frostbytes

    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro (2017)

    I have a triple-screen setup both at home and at my studio (laptop screen, plus horizontal + vertical monitors). My laptop has two internal SSDs, 16 GB of RAM, streamlined OS -- and I've tried everything that I've Googled about improving Lightroom performance. It's just a dog. From the...
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    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro (2017)

    Thanks for the feedback. I'm really sitting on the fence about the Surface Pro (2017). I've been a laptop-only guy for a few years now, because sometimes I work from home, sometimes from my studio and sometimes on the road. It was too much hassle to have to sync data back and forth between a...
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    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro (2017)

    Thanks Joe. I did read that article last week, but was hoping to see specific Lightroom-related benchmarks. For instance, I'd really like to see how long it takes to export 100 images on an i5 version vs an i7 version, and how much different 8 GB vs 16 GB makes. Hopefully some of the...
  16. frostbytes

    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro (2017)

    Have any of you started using Lightroom on the new Surface Pro? I'm curious how usable one would be as an editing machine, and particularly how much difference in performance there is with LIghtroom between the i5 versions and the ridiculously expensive i7 versions. Thanks.
  17. frostbytes

    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro 4

    The Surface hardware that was introduced last week is Microsoft's answer to Google's Chromebook -- more oriented toward the education market. Every sign and expectation points to the Surface Pro line being alive and well.
  18. frostbytes

    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro 4

    I'm tempted to buy a Surface Pro 4, but the rumor mill keeps pointing out to a replacement (Surface Pro 5?) coming out soon, so I've been waiting... impatiently. Good to hear that the touch aspect and pen work well. I just might just do it soon.
  19. frostbytes

    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro 4

    Thanks for the answer. How does the speed of using LR compare between the Surface Pro and your desktop? Is the difference noticeable? And do you use the pen or touch components of the Surface Pro with Lightroom? Does that work well or do you resort to using a mouse for culling and editing?
  20. frostbytes

    Lightroom on Microsoft Surface Pro 4

    Anyone using one with Lightroom that can comment on how well it works in terms of performance, screen calibration, and overall usability? I've been doing a lot of photo shoots lately with 30-60 minutes between appointments that is dead time unless I can do editing on the go. I have a laptop...
  21. frostbytes

    Run multiple export presets?

    Sounds right. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't overlooking a clever way of doing this. It sounds like there isn't a way, so I've put in a feature request on the Adobe forums. Thanks everyone.
  22. frostbytes

    Run multiple export presets?

    Hmmm. That's clever but I'm not sure that it saves me time. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like clicking the publish X number of times would take about as long as clicking the export button X number of times? Ideally I'd like to see a "click once, run everything" workaround/feature.
  23. frostbytes

    Run multiple export presets?

    I find myself often needing to run 3-4 export presets from Lightroom for the same image. (e.g. one sized for blog posts to a specific folder, another for low-resolution, another for high resolution, another to Dropbox, etc.). I've been running each preset manually one after another. Is there...
  24. frostbytes

    Lightroom stuck syncing 5 photos for days...

    Of course! This is how we help each other. Thank YOU for hosting this fine forum. :)
  25. frostbytes

    Lightroom stuck syncing 5 photos for days...

    I found a solution with the help of Adobe tech support. The diagnostic log didn't help, but clearing the sync data and forcing a resync did. I renamed the sync folder, restarted LR on my desktop, waited for the sync to complete and... no more stuck image! You can find the sync.lrdata file...
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