What will happen when I run out of space?

[compleks]

I've been working away in Lightroom lately, keywording, rating, sorting and organising.

I bought myself a macbook pro with 250Gb. So I'm just curious what will happen when I run out of space on my hard drive.
I'm most likely to remove any old photos to an external hard drive. But then what will happen to all my categories in Lightroom?
Will all my keywording and categories be saved with those images?

I know this wont happen for some time yet, but I'm just curious to know.

Thanks.

[DogHeadGod]

I think if you move your images onto an external drive the next time you open lightroom it will tell you the files are missing and ask you to locate them, at which point you point it to the new location (i.e. the external drive) and after that it should remember.

[sk66]

Move them from within lightroom and there's no problem.

otherwise it will explode!

[Jim Bryant]

I do two things.......I burn the images to a DVD and also save the files on an external 1.5 TB external HD.

[Digidave]

Originally Posted by sk66

Move them from within lightroom and there's no problem.

otherwise it will explode!

[Gado]

Originally Posted by sk66

Move them from within lightroom and there's no problem.

otherwise it will explode!

This is what I do. I'm not sure if it affects transfer speed. I didn't really care enough to check.

[inkista]

Er... why not blow $100 at newegg, get a 500GB internal drive, pop it into a spare external enclosure, clone your 250GB to the 500GB with something like CarbonCopyCloner, and then swap the drives? That's what I did when I ran out of space on my MacBook's 250GB drive.

[OsmosisStudios]

... exactly why I don't use Lightroom (or iPhoto) to organize things: i do it manually.

[compleks]

Thanks for the replies.

Osmosis, how do you organise things manually?
I have all my folders fairly well organised I think. But I use lightroom to add keywords and ratings etc... which make it really easy to retrieve the photos or similar photos.

Oh, just quickly. If I export these images to disc or another drive, will the added keywords and ratings be saved with them?

Cheers guys.

[Free]

Originally Posted by compleks

Thanks for the replies.

Osmosis, how do you organise things manually?
I have all my folders fairly well organised I think. But I use lightroom to add keywords and ratings etc... which make it really easy to retrieve the photos or similar photos.

Oh, just quickly. If I export these images to disc or another drive, will the added keywords and ratings be saved with them?

Cheers guys.

I use Lightroom now and love it, but for those that aren't keen to let software do their thinking for them adobe bridge (assuming you have photoshop anyway) is a great way to organise your files. It lets you apply some auto import rules if you want and writes keywords to the file so you can search by keyword later in or out of bridge (can search in Windoze Vista and Vista 2.0 [Windows 7], but I don't think in xp).

I find I'm spending more time going into photoshop anyway lately, so I might eventually switch back to bridge, it depends on the wife, I know she LOVES the ease of Lightroom.

The way Lightroom works witht he sidecar and all, I'm fairly sure the keywords only work in Lightroom, so if you move the images and search outside of Lightroom you'll get no love, but if you move the images properly (use Lightrooms file manager looking thing on the left of the Library) and you'll be sweet inside Lightroom.

Free