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Okay, I still have a lot of learning to do. I screwed up with Lightroom on my most recent trip.
I keep a laptop in an Owner's Locker so I don't have to tote it back and forth. On this past trip, I installed Lightroom 4 on it. It's an older laptop, so the speed wasn't that great, but Lightroom seemed to be working ok. My intent was to export the catalog to an external hard drive as the way to bring the photos back home.
Epic fail with that. I started the catalog export before going to bed on our last night, and didn't check it in the morning before shutting down and packing up the computer. (8:30 flight, so it was a very early wakeup call.) I didn't realize until getting home that I apparently had a handful of pictures selected when I did the export, so the catalog that got exported, of course, only contains those few photos. Murphy's law was certain to apply, too, as none of the photos that actually got copied in the catalog were the ones I'd done developing work on.
Oh well. I thought I had myself covered, though, because I'd set up the Lightroom import settings to make a second copy of every picture onto the external drive I carry back and forth every time I did an import from the camera memory cards. Even though I lost all the post processing work I'd done while still at WDW when the catalog didn't copy correctly, I figured I still had all the raw files here at home.
Nope. I just went looking for a series of photos I know I took, and can't find them. (I took a series of about 20 pictures of the view from our balcony. I know I had them, because I remember playing with them and creating a panorama in CS6.) I didn't expect the panorama I created to be on the disk, but am surprised the individual pictures aren't there, either.
Guess I'll need to wait until June to see what else I'm missing. Fortunately, this happened on a short Spring Break trip, and I'll be back down there again in 6 weeks for our summer trip.
I understand my screw up with exporting the catalog, but I'm a little concerned that every single photo isn't on the disk I brought home. I set up the 2nd copy destination on the very first card I imported, and that setting should have been in place for the rest of the trip. The photos I've determined are missing were from about mid-trip. Other pictures from that day and later days are on the disk.
I can't figure out why this disk doesn't have a copy of every single photo we took. Any thoughts?
I keep a laptop in an Owner's Locker so I don't have to tote it back and forth. On this past trip, I installed Lightroom 4 on it. It's an older laptop, so the speed wasn't that great, but Lightroom seemed to be working ok. My intent was to export the catalog to an external hard drive as the way to bring the photos back home.
Epic fail with that. I started the catalog export before going to bed on our last night, and didn't check it in the morning before shutting down and packing up the computer. (8:30 flight, so it was a very early wakeup call.) I didn't realize until getting home that I apparently had a handful of pictures selected when I did the export, so the catalog that got exported, of course, only contains those few photos. Murphy's law was certain to apply, too, as none of the photos that actually got copied in the catalog were the ones I'd done developing work on.
Oh well. I thought I had myself covered, though, because I'd set up the Lightroom import settings to make a second copy of every picture onto the external drive I carry back and forth every time I did an import from the camera memory cards. Even though I lost all the post processing work I'd done while still at WDW when the catalog didn't copy correctly, I figured I still had all the raw files here at home.
Nope. I just went looking for a series of photos I know I took, and can't find them. (I took a series of about 20 pictures of the view from our balcony. I know I had them, because I remember playing with them and creating a panorama in CS6.) I didn't expect the panorama I created to be on the disk, but am surprised the individual pictures aren't there, either.
Guess I'll need to wait until June to see what else I'm missing. Fortunately, this happened on a short Spring Break trip, and I'll be back down there again in 6 weeks for our summer trip.
I understand my screw up with exporting the catalog, but I'm a little concerned that every single photo isn't on the disk I brought home. I set up the 2nd copy destination on the very first card I imported, and that setting should have been in place for the rest of the trip. The photos I've determined are missing were from about mid-trip. Other pictures from that day and later days are on the disk.
I can't figure out why this disk doesn't have a copy of every single photo we took. Any thoughts?
