Lightroom, Catalogs and Travel

[ATJ]

I guess this question is primarily for Peter and Craig, but I'm keen to hear other people's ideas, too.

When you guys went on the trip, did you start with a new/empty Lightroom catalog and just add your photos to that? Or, did you take your existing catalog and add the new photos to it?

If the former, is there some way to merge the catalog with your main one when you get back?

If the latter, do you take all your image files with you, or just know that you can't open any older ones?

On previous trips, I have taken all my existing images and used my one and only catalog. As I haven't been on a trip in over 2 years, I have accumulated a lot more image files - and with the D300 that's a lot of large files - and I'm not sure it is wise now.

[Ant]

There is a section on that in the Scott Kelby book on Lightroom 3. He basically recommends keeping a separate catalog on your notebook and exporting/importing it when you need to merge it into your main catalog.

[Murray Foote]

I go through this process when I go to multi-day Blues Festivals. Note that it is "Export as Catalogue ..." and "Import from Catalogue ..." rather than just Export and Import. I use an external disk for the export and import catalogue.

[stubbsy]

Both Craig and I (and I think the bulk of people on our Antarctic trip) started with new catalogs. I have since moved the entire catalog, the 1:1 previews and the images from my laptop to my main desktop PC. This was simply a file move of the above then you open the catalog in LR which shows ??? where it can't find the images. You right click the topmost folder and point at it's new location and LR is smart enough to sort the lot out.

So at this stage I have the Antarctic catalog separate from my main LR catalog as I'm still processing them, but eventually I'll merge the two catalogs as discussed (the import and export process).

We also started with a custom set of LR keywords (provided by DaveB) specific to our trip as part of that process. I've since merged that with the hierarchy of my main keyword set for ALL my catalogs.

[gstark]

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