Questions tagged [file-management]
Organization and manipulation of files
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Darktable on multiple machines
What is the best way to organise a large photo library that needs to be accessed on two laptops (both my wife and I are editing pictures). Possibilities:
store the library.db along with the files on ...
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How do you keep organized in LR?
I recently switched from Aperture to LR. I want to know what is the best way to get organized.
How do you keep your file structure? I read online that some are using YYYYMMDD-Title as folders.
Also, ...
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Possible to open photo straight to Adobe Camera Raw?
Is there any way to open a photo straight into Adobe Camera Raw without loading Photoshop or anything? I am trying to use my own program to browse my DNG photos and I would like to be able to open ...
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Lightroom: Folder display doesn't match filesystem
I recently imported my iPhoto library into Lightroom using Lightroom's import facility.
The result of that was a neatly arranged filesystem, like thus:
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Can I copy a Lightroom catalog between computers?
I have a NAS drive where I keep all my photos, and I have just cataloged this using an instance of Lightroom which is on my laptop - 15,000 photos or so.
Now I want to use Lightroom on my Surface ...
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When bracketing photos, how do you keep track of them during post?
When I download photos I often can't tell which bracketed shots go with which. How do I keep track of them during editing?
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Can I import photos into Lightroom from Microsoft OneDrive without downloading them directly to my HDD?
I have all my images in OneDrive. I want to import them into Lightroom 5 and create smart previews. How do I do this without downloading all the images directly to my HDD? Can Lightroom reference ...
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Creating "Smart Folders" on the hard drive based on photo IPTC metadata?
I use IPTC metadata for tagging and rating my images. I'd like to create folders on my hard drive containing collections of photos based on the metedata (e.g. 5-star photos in 2015).
This would be ...
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Why do copies of the same photo have slightly different file sizes?
I've been pulling my hair out at this task, which seems insurmountable. I have spent a lot of time consolidating all my past storage drives, and then doing it again, and now discover I have many ...
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Is there a way to use Lightroom mobile to Sync only starred/picked photos in collections?
I was wondering if there's a way/plug-in to sync only photos in collections based on metadata such as flagging and/or ratings? For instance, if I have a collection of 500 images, but only 50 are rated ...
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Why is my DSLR taking duplicate pictures?
My Nikon d7000 is making an exact duplicate of each picture taken. I have 2 of every picture on my sd card. How do I stop this?
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"Getting Started with Lightroom Mobile" popup disappears before I can click on it!
I don't know what it's called, but it's the window at the upper left of the LR window that comes up when you click on "getting started with lightroom mobile" or if you've already signed in, &...
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Aperture like event view in Lightroom 5
I just purchased Lightroom 5, and am making the switch from Aperture, which I've been using for the last two years, and has all of my 40,000+ images from that time frame.
While I didn't realize that ...
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Photos imported into Aperture aren't showing up — why not?
I imported about 500 images into Aperture (mostly CR2, but some jpg), and for some reason they're not showing up in my library.
If I right click on my library and select "Show Package Contents" and ...
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sorting photos from every minute to every hour
I have a data base of time lapse photos that have been taken for a period of a week, but i made a newbies mistake and set the setting up for a photo every second, filled up my memory drive. Anyways ...
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How can I give an assitant rights to edit without having the possibility to download the image? [closed]
The situation is this one: we are a small photo company. We have a few people going out to shoot various assignments. When they return they hand me the memory cards and I download the images into the ...
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Standards or widespread guidelines for updating of Exif or other metadata when modifying photos or other images?
I'm working on software that allows users to upload photos (or, potentially, any image). The photos are scaled to a maximum size (to save space) and as part of that change to the image I want to copy ...
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Is there a way to get image names from DSLR to a tethered tablet?
My implementation would be for high volume photography (sorting/post processing)....
If I can get the image name, as the picture is taken, to be sent to a tethered android tablet, I would be able to ...
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Organizing photos for archival purposes, what format for metadata?
For long term archiving, what metadata format(s) are most likely to be readable in 10, 20, or 30 years? Currently I archive photos by directory in a tree structure starting with year at the top level. ...
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Do you keep all of your photos? [duplicate]
Even though I do a quick edit in camera to remove unwanted shots as I shoot, I still end up with a huge number of shots. I keep and back up in the cloud the ones I am working on for a project and ...
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Lightroom publish to Facebook: managing existing photos
Is there any way to synchronize existing photos in a given album of a Facebook page with Lightroom's Facebook Publish services? I can add the developed photos to the Publish collection, but I have no ...
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How can I automatically organize files on disk based on date or other metadata inside Lightroom?
I've been tidying up my external hard drives, which involved merging several Lightroom libraries as well as importing a bunch of stuff that I haven't properly catalogued before. Unfortunately things ...
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How to view a thumbnail for each lightroom folder in a catalog?
I'm trying to convert from Aperture to Lightroom. The first thing that does not make sense to me is how do you get an overview of your entire library (called catalog in lightroom)? In aperture, this ...
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Is there a way to get Lightroom to extract only part of the folder name on export?
I have the photos for the newspaper I'm working at stored in folders named like "YY-MM-DD_name-of-article". I have a folder for each article. Now, in our editorial system, they want them named like "...
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How do you organize your photos before you shoot them?
When I go out for a shoot, I often shoot photos that I'd like saved in multiple folders on the SD card, so that I can figure out later what's what.
For example, if I go out to shoot trains, in the ...
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Why is my SDHC card disappearing from the file system after few minutes?
My Nikon sdhc memory card is showing in my computer, but after a few minutes it disappears from the file system. The three things I tried are:
formatted the card
changed my card reader
changed the ...
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What is the best linux/BSD distro for photography? [closed]
Is there a distribution or flavor of *nix that stands above the rest in terms of available apps in the repository, smooth workflow, colour management, etc?
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How to get back from a print to an image file
I manage a growing collection of jpeg photos (27k so far) for my partner. Aside from the time it takes to accurately tag them all (I only have about 7k of them tagged :( ), everything is fine.
The ...
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How to prevent deleted photos from appearing again when importing from camera?
I use Adobe Lightroom. I import photos daily from the camera, carefully go through the large number of photos and delete (from the PC) the ones I don't like. ...
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How do I move a photo in Lightroom after it's been added but not copied?
Normally when adding photos to Lightroom, I "Copy as DNG" from my camera's SD card to my external hard drive. Recently someone gave me a DVD containing over a thousand images in JPG format, which I ...
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