On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:18:19PM -0500, Paul Sorenson wrote: > Not familiar with the intricacies of the Mac OS, but I'm wondering if > you can't use the Linux box as a file server and map that drive to your > Mac so it sees the Linux drive as a local drive.
In theory that can be done, probably via samba. I've taken a couple of tries at it, and I could play a system administrator in a play, but I wouldn't hire myself to do system administration on anything more complex than a K&E sliderule. The benefits of my system are: I've got a virgin backup on an entirely different system than I do my work on. Short of a catastrophe that takes out both systems, I'm fine, and if something takes out the systems the decades of pictures in the family albums are a much bigger loss. I do my work on a local copy. No network latency or speed issues. After 6 months or so, I don't often go back to old shots, so I don't mind them being on an external drive. I may, eventually, want to rethink the three tier storage. I'll have to check out that lightroom book that was recommended. > -p > > Larry Colen wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:55:22AM -0500, Charles Robinson wrote: > >>It's funny that one of the major features that I love about Lightroom > >>is something that others find to be a pain. > >> > >>The importing for me is just a minor step. I love the fact that I can > >>locate images from 3 years ago in just a few seconds - and LR even > >>"knows" which DVD or disk image I need to bring up to get at the image > >>(but has a little thumbnail already in there so I know that I've found > >>what I'm looking for). > > > >Perhaps you can tell me how to handle an issue. My iMac doesn't have > >huge amounts of disk space, and it's not trivial to add a bigger > >drive. So my process: > > > >1) copy the files from my SD card onto my linux desktop (with huge > >disks). > > > >2) scp them over to my iMac in the (this year) pictures 2009 > > directory. > > > >3) Import that directory into lightroom. > > > >This is where it starts getting unweildy. Since I shoot a lot (I > >average about 80-100 frames a day) I end up with 5-10 directories > >(folders) of files a week. Every couple of months I need to to start a > >new library so that the library doesn't become unwieldy. Changing > >between libraries is a PiTA. It has to close and restart LR. > > > >Problem 1) > >A card may have several sessions from a day. Yesterday I shot some > >flowers at the office, some farm machinery by the road and at a dance. > > > >I can create subdirectories, and move photos from the top level > >directory into lower directories, but they still show up, so I can't > >easily choose between what is left. In other words, I move photos out > >of the top level directory, but they still show up in the top level > >directory. > > > >Problem 2) > > > >I've realized that having pix2009 is not right, under pix2009 I should > >have 0901, 0902, 0903 with shots from January, Feb, March etc. Since I > >name my files by date then subject 090401_flowers, 090328_birds etc > >it's trivial to move the files into new subdirectories: > > > >mkdir p0901 > >mv 0901* p0901 > >mkdir p0902 > >mv 0902* p0902 > > > >with a few minutes of work I could write a bash script to do > >this. But, as I understand it, Lightroom will get confused because it > >still thinks that those files are under pix2009 not pix2009/p0901 > >pix2009/p0902 etc. > > > >Problem 3) > >Every so often my internal drive fills up, and I have to move the > >directories over to an external drive, and I've got no idea how > >lightroom will handle that if I go back to edit old files. > > > >With bibble, the .bib files for each photo were in the same directory > >as the raw file. > > > >My problem with this software may be from the fact that I use a mac > >because it's unix, rather than I'm using a unix machine because that's > >what the mac UI is on top of. I prefer the intuitive command line to > >the arcane and confusing graphical user interface. > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > >Version: 8.5.285 / Virus Database: 270.11.38/2037 - Release Date: 04/02/09 > >06:09:00 > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
