22
Jan
While searching for a method to move my Lightroom library off of the PowerBook hard drive to an external one, I came across this tip for nested keywording from The Luminous Landscape. I’ve always typed out my tag hierarchy. Pictures of Megan, would be “Kids, Megan” for example. After finding this tip, I moved my Megan tag underneath the Kids tag, and now I no longer need to type in Kids, or forget to add it. Lightroom will handle that for me. As a test, I found a picture that I’d tagged “Birds, Ducks”, and dragged the Birds tag under Animals, and Ducks under Birds. As expected, the pictures now show up with the other Animals pictures. Most importantly, when the photo is exported as a JPEG, Lightroom adds all the tags in the hierarchy to the photo. I used PictureSync to confirm the EXIF data was set (still need to find a good context menu EXIF viewer plugin).
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Why does stuff need to be moved off your PowerBook Hard drive? I hope that’s a new MacBook Pro you’re moving it onto!
The library is now 16GB in size with ~1500 pictures. I’d like to move some or all of them off to an external 160GB WD. I have to see if there’s a way to migrate photos between Lightroom libraries.
And no, not to a new MacBook Pro …. yet.