arjen van de merwe Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 <p>I went on a shoot out of town. I imported the images in Lightroom on my laptop. Then in the hotel room I did some edits. Then I came home and copied the folder (outside lightroom) to my external drive. Now the external drive does not have the edits I did not the laptop. Is there a way to copy these edits to the external drive, or copy the photos and edits to the external drive in one go?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_m Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 <p>You can export (to a new catalog) the images from the hotel/laptop and then import that catalog and/or change your LR preferences to have it write the changes to .XMP files (instead of to the .lrcat database).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjen van de merwe Posted May 13, 2013 Author Share Posted May 13, 2013 <p>Thank you Howard. This is a bit technical for me. Can you give me a step by step explanation? (I'm not that good with the catalogue features)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grh Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 <p>I'll try to help, but it sounds like it's time to learn about a new feature.</p> <p>You can't just copy files about. Lightroom keeps its editing info in files separate from the images.</p> <p>A catalog is a composite of the images plus editing information, stored as files. You must have both parts to recreate your work, as LR does not change the original image.</p> <p>Not too much more to say other than look on the File menu for "Export as Catalog". You will be able to select a location, wherein everything needed for your selected set of images will be written out. This complete set of information can be backed up for long term storage, or taken to another system to "Import from Catalog".</p> <p>The catalog is created from the active collection, whatever that may be.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_m Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 <p>You do NOT want to go 'outside' of LR in order to move files/images around once they have been imported into LR. Because it's database oriented, you will really confuse LR if you do and you'll end up w/ what it thinks are missing images and other problems that are usually fixable but can turn into a fun-filled evening of hair pulling.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 In your preferences, just change the setting to "write changes to xmp " and then the edit info travels with your files and can be seen in other adobe apps as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjen van de merwe Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 <p>Thank you, guys. I got it working now. And sure, Gary, I need to learn Lightroom better.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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