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Hi chaps,
I did do a search on this, but I didn't find exactly what I needed to know.
I'm about to buy an external HDD dedicated to backing up my photography (probably a WD 4TB Elements HDD, unless anyone has any recommendations?)
Now.....one way I could back up is to just copy and paste the image folders onto the external HDD (so no involvement with LR, or any software for that matter),
BUT.....if I wanted to work on those images again, I'd have to re-import them and re-edit them all over again.
So my question is, what is the most effective way of having images backed up on a HDD, that I can easily re-import them into LR (with all of the edits, flags etc still active)?
I'm still getting my head around LR catalogs and the best way to use them, especially as I have a travel laptop with LR, edit on that, but then want to finalize everything on my desktop LR.
Do people 'export as a catalog' for backups? So if I went on a trip (for example to Singapore). I would have an imported folder in LR with all the images (and edits, flags etc). I would then export that folder as a catalog to my HDD as a folder called 'Singapore'. Even if I delete that folder (and images) from the desktop PC, I could then use the 'import from catalog' feature to re-import those images from the HDD back into whatever catalog I am using on my desktop, and everything would appear as it was when I initially editing/working on them. Or would it?
I've read many ways of doing this, hence my confusion, so any help is appreciated!
I did do a search on this, but I didn't find exactly what I needed to know.
I'm about to buy an external HDD dedicated to backing up my photography (probably a WD 4TB Elements HDD, unless anyone has any recommendations?)
Now.....one way I could back up is to just copy and paste the image folders onto the external HDD (so no involvement with LR, or any software for that matter),
BUT.....if I wanted to work on those images again, I'd have to re-import them and re-edit them all over again.
So my question is, what is the most effective way of having images backed up on a HDD, that I can easily re-import them into LR (with all of the edits, flags etc still active)?
I'm still getting my head around LR catalogs and the best way to use them, especially as I have a travel laptop with LR, edit on that, but then want to finalize everything on my desktop LR.
Do people 'export as a catalog' for backups? So if I went on a trip (for example to Singapore). I would have an imported folder in LR with all the images (and edits, flags etc). I would then export that folder as a catalog to my HDD as a folder called 'Singapore'. Even if I delete that folder (and images) from the desktop PC, I could then use the 'import from catalog' feature to re-import those images from the HDD back into whatever catalog I am using on my desktop, and everything would appear as it was when I initially editing/working on them. Or would it?
I've read many ways of doing this, hence my confusion, so any help is appreciated!