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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom 2 question - can one merge?
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat Sep 27 23:26:24 2008
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My own question answered by doing: it worked as Harrison described,  
and worked perfectly. Thanks again!

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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On Sep 22, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Thanks Harrison. It makes sense. One quick question: did you make  
> any adjustments to the images on the laptop, and if so, were those  
> correctly imported as well?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>
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>
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Harrison McClary wrote:
>
>> Nathan,
>>
>> When I went to Washington last month I took my notebook, a windoze  
>> box.  When I got home I imported the catalog I made into my  
>> desktop, a Mac Pro and all was fine.  So yes you can do this.
>>
>> What I did was to create a catalog on the notebook of the trip,  
>> downloaded the photos into a folder and saved the catalog into that  
>> same folder.  When I got home I copied it all over to my desktop  
>> hard drive then went into the Lightroom launching my master catalog  
>> and went to the menu: FILE: IMPORT FROM CATALOG and let it do its  
>> thing and all was there including exif data and editing.
>>
>> Hope this makes sense to you if not ask me to clarify.
>>
>>
>> Have a fun trip
>>
>>
>> Nathan wrote:
>>> Here is the scenario: on Tuesday I drive to Bath with my son,  
>>> returning to Alicante on Friday. Of course I will take pictures on  
>>> the way, and on my way home I will have a lot of time to kill,  
>>> first 4 1/2 hours on the ferry from Poole to Cherbourg, and then a  
>>> couple of hours at a cheap Etap hotel on the motorway in France.  
>>> So I want to use some of that time to process my images. I will  
>>> have my Powerbook G4 with me, running Lightroom 2.
>>>
>>> Now, the question is: when I get home, I will want to merge the  
>>> images processed during the trip into my main LR database on my  
>>> desktop iMac. Can this be done in some reasonable way, or is my  
>>> only option to export the images with the adjustments embedded to  
>>> DNG files, and then re-import them on the iMac? In other words,  
>>> does LR 2 have a facility for merging two LR databases?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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