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Zenon Char wrote:
For the benefit of other readers I'm curious about a few things. What you mean about re-scanning files? When you import new files LrC reads the metadata so it can add it to (build) the catalogue, which is just a database. It also builds previews and that can take time. You can choose the Embedded & Sidecar option that lets you cull while the previews build.
My LR folder is on the desktop in Adobe's default - Pictures. That folder contains the Catalogue, Previews and everything else. All my files are stored on an external drive. After a shoot I get the files into a folder that is on my desktop. I import that folder. Once the Previews are built. I leave that folder on my desktop and begin editing. I do this because it is an SSD and the fastest drive. Once done I drag those files to the ED. I've been doing this since 2011 and have never seen LrC reimport, rescan or do anything else. LrC just needs to know where the files are located. Even if my files are on an ED they still open quickly because I keep the previews around forever.
To keep it simple I drag my files from the desktop to the ED using LrC. This way it knows where I moved them and I don't have to remember to tell LrC where I moved then. It still uses the same catalogue and previews that are on the desktop or SSD. That move is as fast as using your OS. I have moved a mass amount of files when replacing a drive and that does take time. For that I use the OS and after I go back into LrC which will show an exclamation mark. I just point it to the root folder at the new location/drive and all is fine. I do this because it is recommended for mass file moves. Again I've never seen any re-scanned or any previews rebuilt. It still uses the original ones wherever your LR folder is located. I've only done that a few times. Any other time I use LrC.
Question about your own filing. You do that either way. LrC does not create its own file system. It uses the existing one, wherever that is located. I can open LrC, the OS, Canon's DPP, DXO, C1 or anything else and it will show the same file structure. My folder structure is by year. In January using LrC I added 2024 and that showed up in the OS file structure.
The only difference between LrC and others is because it's a parametric developer it needs to know where your located and you have complete control over that. You can tell LrC where to import from and where to import to. Again it does not create a duplicate set of files or its own file structure. So the only pain is moving folders/files is using LrC. You can use or OS to do this but then you have to remember to inform LrC about it. I have been moving folders around using LrC for 10 years and never worry about anything. Anything I move something it shows in my OS folder structure or any other developer I open.
You probably don't keep your previews so if you do move 3TB worth of files but that shouldn't affect anything. You are not re-importing, so LrC does not have to build previews. The files metadata is always still in the catalogue database. It only has to build previews for any older folders/files you actually open that do not have the previews stored somewhere. ...Show more →
Part of it may be my own fault and initial expectations that got off on the wrong foot years ago... I cut my teeth on Photoshop early days at work. It was expensive back then, and at the time when I first was aware of LR years ago, it was pitched to me as an inexpensive alternative to PS, like "PS Lite" as photo editing software. When I loaded it for home use, it became readily apparent that it was definitely NOT "PS Lite" and that it was primarily an organizer with some editing capabilities.
Fast forward to modern times, I received a free license for LRC with my new Adobe subscription that I bought mainly for PS. So, on a lark, I re-installed LRC to see what's changed.
To be honest, I never bothered to fully flesh it out to see "why" or "what" was happening that triggered a re-scan of my picture drive after I moved some files around via the OS, because I stopped it before it finished, and I yanked it off the system...
...But what I do know, is that after initially installing LR Classic this time around, it took a full day to catalog everything, or whatever it does, and when it did, there was an additional several gigabytes! of index files? and previews? or something? it had created, I dunno, and the work flow just still seemed so foreign to the way I think. It was slow and clunky to me so it was already on probation as far as I was concerned, heh heh. I prefer to rely on the OS logical folder naming conventions and a sort by date function and finding my newest or outstanding unfinished work that way. The tree view and thumbnails just doesn't do it for me.
So, in the end, it sounds like you have way more experience with LR and LRC than I do, and probably can make it sing and dance and it sounds like you really like it. Awesome! Happy for you! It's probably not fair of me to discount it on forums, so I'll watch my rhetoric in the future, but I never wanted an organizer in the first place, so I wasn't inclined to put forth much effort into making it work for me.
Eric
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