Hi Godders, On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:57:52 -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>> 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. Yes, I started out with 750, as delivered by Apple. Perhaps I am too paranoid, but with a background in system maintenance and data recovery I think the options for backup up and cloning a slightly smaller disk will be a lot easier. An exact clone will fit a run-of-the-mill external USB disk these days, which would be a problem with the 750Gb (unless you use compressed images). And 150Gb is still large enough to comfortabley fit all applications and regular data. I plan to store just the giant stuff like the MP3 collection, photo and video material on the second partition. <snip usefull details> >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. Yes, there are pro's and con's to each approach ... >The Mac OS X file system is extremely stable and reliable. Yes I hope so, so far it looks very good :-) We'll see how things develop, I may reconsider when Leopard comes out :-) >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. That is probably what I will do too then, the lightroom library in my home tree, with the actual photos on the data disk ... >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". Sounds good, need to find out how to do that. At some point I will probably get a large firewire external disk for this kind of backups (the 1Tb Iomega sounds good :-) >Whenever I Import, I also have Lightroom generate the standard >preview files. Saves time later. OK, thanks for the tips, will be installing Lightroom today or tommorow ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
