leighrichly
New Member
- Joined
- Dec 31, 2019
- Messages
- 8
- Lightroom Version Number
- 3.1
- Operating System
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
I'm a Photoshop user of many years and professional video editor (FinalCutPro) but using a few days off to try & bring my family photo library up to speed.
With my newly subscribed-to CC account, i discovered i have Lightroom as part of the package and am impressed by everything i read. However, one thing scares me about making the leap fully into it and that is this: LR doesn't like me moving files independently.
My PLAN is to do this:
- keep my Mac folder structure in tact of Year > month or topic (i have more than 15yrs of photos to add to LR and limited time to be cataloguing & keywording etc)
- keep locally (on my computer) only the current few years worth, and
- move the older folders OFF my local storage onto external storage at the end of each calendar year on a FIFO basis.
It does NOT seem like LR would like me doing this, as experts say "don't touch files external to LR or it gets confused" kind of thing.
So i'm curious to understand how others use LR to solve this ever-expanding-library problem. At least LR does not appear to store the files within its 'package' (I'm on a Mac) unlike iPhoto which makes a copy.
With my newly subscribed-to CC account, i discovered i have Lightroom as part of the package and am impressed by everything i read. However, one thing scares me about making the leap fully into it and that is this: LR doesn't like me moving files independently.
My PLAN is to do this:
- keep my Mac folder structure in tact of Year > month or topic (i have more than 15yrs of photos to add to LR and limited time to be cataloguing & keywording etc)
- keep locally (on my computer) only the current few years worth, and
- move the older folders OFF my local storage onto external storage at the end of each calendar year on a FIFO basis.
It does NOT seem like LR would like me doing this, as experts say "don't touch files external to LR or it gets confused" kind of thing.
So i'm curious to understand how others use LR to solve this ever-expanding-library problem. At least LR does not appear to store the files within its 'package' (I'm on a Mac) unlike iPhoto which makes a copy.