On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Thibouille <[email protected]> wrote: > I presently work with 2 catalogs. One for my personal work and one for > my photo courses.... > > Now, my problem: I realized I imported files from my Courses catalog > at the place I store my own files (lets call it Personal catalog). ...
I'm not entirely sure I understand. Is this the situation? - You have two catalogs intended for different purposes, Personal and Courses. - You do not want the image files to be included in both catalogs. - When you import with each catalog, you want LR to move your image files into different file system locations to keep them separated. - When you imported files into your Courses catalog, you inadvertently set LR to place the files in the file system location normally used for your Personal files. > I do not want to mix files, deleting a file when it is also present in > the second catalog will create a big mess and since LR can't open both > catalog at the same time... can't do another way. > > Did I messed things up? Or did LR? I'm under the impression that LR > keeps the last import settings in memory but do NOT it does so in > relation to what catalog is opened. Which means, if I'm no cautious > enough, things gets mixed (and messed up). Is it so ? The worst thing that can happen if you delete files from one catalog (and delete or move them around in the file system) is that the same image files also present in the other catalog will come up with question marks saying that Lightroom can't find them. All you have to do is tell the catalog with the question marks to synchronize with the file system and remove missing files. Similarly, once you put the files into the right locations for the other catalog, either re-import them or synchronize existing folders into which they've been placed. Lightroom remembers import settings on a per catalog basis automatically, but the sensible and safe thing to do if you want LR to move files into separate locations in two different catalogs/import scenarios is to define two import presets, one for each catalog, and remember to choose the correct one when doing your imports. I have about four different import scenarios articulating in what destinations in the file system I want imports to place the files, so I have a preset set up for each of them. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
