On Apr 21, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Jan van Wijk wrote: > OK, I got my iMac-24 yesterday and am almost ready for the serious > stuff now, like moving my photo work from Windows to the Mac ... > > After playing for a while, trying stuff out, I decided to re- > install OS X > since I felt uncomfortable with the single 700Gb system partition :-) > A bit of a nightmare for backup and maintenance.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean. I don't partition my drives ... my startup drive is a single 500Gbyte volume. I have one account with administrator privileges to maintain the system with. All application installs are made with this account, as well as system updates, etc, and I use Apple's Backup software (comes with the .Mac subscription) to back it up in its entirety. I configure Backup for my personal work account to maintain all of my personal account data (organized correctly, it's all in the account's directory tree). I use a synchronizing utility (ChronoSync) to backup and archive my photo work (I don't want incremental backups on photos, I just want to synchronize the backup stores with the work drive). I don't generally back up the operating system and applications. I have them all on their distribution masters and maintain a complete list of everything installed, along with installation tips and serial numbers as needed, as part of the administrator account. Occasionally, I do want a complete backup (like for when I'm up- sizing a hard drive or building an independent boot drive), and in those circumstances I use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper (thanks Cotty!) to create that clone, everything except my personal work account normally. I find one partition volumes to be FAR easier to manage and maintain then multiple partition volumes, assuming sensible backup software and good backup policy. The Mac OS X file system is extremely stable and reliable. > Anyway, I now have a 150Gb systempartition and 450Gb data. > On an external disk I have about 100Gb worth of RAW images, > JPEGS and some TIFFS that I would like to use from Lightroom. > > The question is, what is the best way to organize that ? > I wuld like Lightroom to make a copy of all those images, > and store them on the data disk. > > Later I will add more RAW directly from SD-cards, so these need > to be added to that same collection too. > > Should I copy the image data manually to that data disk, > or is it better to let Lightroom handle that (import ??) Lightroom has to Import the data, one way or another. You can copy it manually into whatever organization you want to use, or you can Import with a copy function to do the same thing. Importing can also do renaming, if you desire that.. In my personal directory, I created a directory named "Photos". In there, I create Lightroom libraries. Since I had a lot of work in place, and a good organization for it, prior to using Lightroom in the "Pictures" directory, I created my main working library in Photos then imported the existing work by reference, leaving the files where I had them. For new work, coming in from external volumes or storage card, I use Import and copy to a new directory, named in keeping with my existing schema, with DNG conversion. For work coming off a card, I have Import also write an archive copy to the internal backup/scratch disk in another new subdirectory a folder named "Raw Imports". Whenever I Import, I also have Lightroom generate the standard preview files. Saves time later. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
