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My main computer is a laptop. Ever since I bought my first camera capable of taking pictures in RAW format, my already small hard drive space has been dwindling. What's the best way to manage photos in an external drive? I like using Lightroom, and would appreciate a method either manually or with that program. Perhaps there is a way to work with images locally, and then once I've decided that all these photos are taking up too much room, export the lot of my library to an external drive and clear them out locally? I'm not sure. What does /p/ recommend?
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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I use an external hard drive since my laptop on is only 60 gigs, but there are some portable devices that let you transfer you pictures from you camera card to it so you can look at them on a bigger screen than your camera's.
>> Anonymous
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terrorbyte hard disks are cheap these days.
>> Anonymous
you should be able to set your software to automatically save all of your .raw files directly to your external drive, using the same sort of organization you use on your main drive. when you are uploading from your camera, go ahead and save all of your .raws to your external, and then just bring them over to your main drive as you work on them. then create folders on your external to store your finished work. the best way to keep your workflow uncluttered is to keep as much of your work on the external as possible, so you don't have to do as much hunting for the exact shot you want. also, don't forget to unplug your external any time you have to do any software maintenance on your computer, just in case.
>> Anonyfag of Borneo !bHymOqU5YY
Lightroom 2 comes with improved (or new, can't remember) support for external drives. I haven't really tested that part though.