This is an older video but still relevant in 2022. Thank you for putting this together Mark. You speak clearly and give very clear directions. Instant sub from me.
@sueadrianpye5946
2 жыл бұрын
I just need to give you a huge Thank You for this video. You have no idea the number of hours I have spent watching tutorials on Lr and no one has addressed the issue of saving your photos - why is it such a mystery? Your video has put an end to me lying in bed wondering if I'll lose all my photos (30,000+) before I can figure out how to easily back them up. You have lifted a hug weight off me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. With deep gratitude, Sue
@markarmstrong3962
4 жыл бұрын
Great video! Best coverage of LR backups I’ve found.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Fellosblog
11 жыл бұрын
Why I like youtube: Thought "Mh, how can I easy backup everything about my pictures?". Opened youtube. Typed "lightroom backup". found this awesome guy. Now everything done. Happy. Thanks!
@betsymemishian
Жыл бұрын
You have saved me, this is so helpful, why do it any other way? Absolutely still helpful in 2022.
@dougnewman1636
9 жыл бұрын
Your diction is excellent, this is a very thorough step through of Lightroom, I have version 5 however your presentation works well in any case. You are easy to listen to.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
9 жыл бұрын
Doug Newman Thanks! I plan on doing a LR 5 specific series this year. As you found much of what I talk about in the current series will work the same in 5 but there are some great features exclusive to 5 I want to talk about. Keep a look out for them within the coming month!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
11 жыл бұрын
You're welcome and I'm glad this was helpful! I'll have more tutorials coming soon!
@randyschwager84
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Great video. Very easy to follow and understand! I appreciate your professional video.
@kamaccord
10 жыл бұрын
This is a great and life saving video. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
@whc389
7 жыл бұрын
This was excellent! Good teacher/ instructor.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@LCSlade
5 жыл бұрын
Of all the backup videos I've watched, your explanation sunk in after one watch ... although I will watch again. Thanks.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
5 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! I know this video may be dated but it still applies today. I'll eventually do another updated series with the current release.
@LCSlade
5 жыл бұрын
I will look forward to that. Thank you for your reply, as it reminded me to subscribe.
@irishRocker1
7 жыл бұрын
the backup and reimporting of catalogs looks interesting. I have always just been opening lightroom and import my photos, do my work, and close lightroom. That means opening the whole catalog every time. 3000 photos and I'm sure professionals have 10x/100x times that number. Opening up the catalog for just a particular shoot probably helps improve performance? Great vid, thanks a lot.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
7 жыл бұрын
Catalogs can get quite large in size. While the performance of large catalogs has improved over the years of Lightroom updates, I still prefer not to keep all my eggs in one basket per say. I don't have any exact numbers but working with a small catalog does perform faster in my opinion due to less data to read into memory and so on. I have been back in forth on my workflow of one master catalog and smaller catalogs and in the end I think I still prefer exporting a smaller catalog from my working catalog after a shoot has been processed.
@amyralston4921
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent, Mark!
@carola.hadikin4820
10 жыл бұрын
I am just like your friend. I reformatted my mac yesterday and only backed up my catalogue. Thank you for this information, luckily I still have some of my images in iPhoto.
@erased84
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. Hands down the best video explanation on how to do this. I have been shooting since 2011 & I have NEVER backed up my photos(luckily for me i've never had a hd failure). I am backing mine up right now to another external hd & my cloud. Again thank you for this guide. Saved me a huge headache.
@KingdomFound
11 жыл бұрын
Thx for the excellent tut, been using Lightroom for a while now and was wondering how to backup everything, your explanation of the process was clear and easy to understand, keep the tuts coming.
@calromaneschi2943
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark, great help for a new lightroom 5 user
@sekander1253
9 жыл бұрын
Wow, many thanks Mark for explaining so neatly a most important process. I am applying your technique and it's awesome.
@xGODSPEEDx
9 жыл бұрын
Very clear explanation, very useful, thank you so much for taking the time!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
9 жыл бұрын
xGODSPEEDx You're welcome!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
11 жыл бұрын
Glad this video helped and you're welcome!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
11 жыл бұрын
Yes backing up your catalog this way will preserve all your edits and history back to when you first imported it into the catalog.
@carolinalainez6827
9 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, you have answered most of my questions. It is the best video I've watched on backing up. Thanks
@carolinalainez6827
9 жыл бұрын
Carolina Lainez By the way Mark, I have the same question as Uptown Photography ( 2 months ago). I would like your advise.
@carolinalainez6827
9 жыл бұрын
Carolina Lainez Also, what advise can you give me on how to back up the "Collections". Thanks
@LearningwithMarkWarren
9 жыл бұрын
Carolina Lainez Thanks and you're welcome! There are two ways to do this. When you backup a shoot or folder in the Folders section and if any one or more of the images is in a Collection it will automatically re-create the Collection in the backup. The other option is if you right click on the Collection you can also Export the Collection as it's own catalog!
@carolinalainez6827
9 жыл бұрын
Learning with Mark Warren I am truly impressed how quickly your replied to my message. I greatly appreciate your kindness. So you definitely recommend backing up each shoot or folder individually even if I have over 10,000 raw images that have never been backed up? I'm new to LR and now that my computer is getting slow, I'm starting to worry about my photographs. Thank you so much for your advises.
@carolinalainez6827
9 жыл бұрын
Carolina Lainez Regarding the backing up of Collections, I am now clear on that topic. I now have one more question above. Thanks Mark.
@myfineart7999
9 жыл бұрын
Excellent Video. Thank you very much.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
9 жыл бұрын
my Fineart You're welcome!
@evmueller2193
11 жыл бұрын
Mark, Best tutorial I've been able to find on the subject! I am one of those that can never find her photos....lol!!!
@1downfall
11 жыл бұрын
Awesome Mark!! Ty so much!
@christianprior2347
10 жыл бұрын
Mark, thanks so much for sharing! Very helpful and extremely well done!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
You're welcome and Thanks!
@AndyGlavac
7 жыл бұрын
Great video for a very important step
@LearningwithMarkWarren
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I think this should be on page 1 on the manual. :-D
@vafa550
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, exactly what I needed to do.
@avalanchegeeks
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks - really useful way to backup full images onto an external drive from Lightroom - just what I was looking for as the Adobe video tutorials weren't working for me.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
11 жыл бұрын
That way would certainly work as well. There's always more than one way to do things. I don't have trouble remembering because I backup each shoot I do once I'm finished with the processing to it's on catalog on an external drive. I also like my way because it keeps the images and catalog together so you don't have to search for the location of the missing images. The catalog and images can be pulled up anytime, anywhere from any computer that has a copy of LR.
@banyanphotography
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for keeping it simple!
@15ASedan
7 жыл бұрын
Outstanding. Best adjective I can use is: concise. Thank you
@LearningwithMarkWarren
7 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@lintimscha
10 жыл бұрын
Very helpful!!! Thank you!!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
Linda S You're welcome!
@LetMeFixThis
11 жыл бұрын
Mark, thanks a bunch for this excellent tutorial. I did follow through and found that your backup strategy does not make sense, as there are - as commented above - obviously backup solutions such as TimeMachine available. Thinking about it some more I figured that your system makes perfect sense, as it only backs up the shoots which have been modified in LR during a certain session, and an old shoots backup can easily be updated. No point in backing up 100GB pics every time. Thanks man! Cheers
@obear
7 жыл бұрын
You are an excellent teacher and easy to listen to. Thank you. If I export a catalog and then add photos to the original catalog later, I don't know how to update the exported one to match the one on the main drive.
@mariaestherramirez8608
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you veal back up for helping me out .
@Shirley0850
8 жыл бұрын
Great video...thanks.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
8 жыл бұрын
+Shirley0850 Thanks!
@jamesskintauy6773
9 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, This is the first time I have listened to one of your videos. I didn't like my current methods and wanted something better. You explained what you do perfectly and it's simple. Had to subscribe and I am sure I will watch some of your other videos. Kudos
@LearningwithMarkWarren
9 жыл бұрын
James Skintauy Thanks!
@guffygolfer
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for a really great time saver.
@ManijShrestha
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark for making this video. I found it to be very helpful. Do keep up the good work and share :)
@honda750k6
7 жыл бұрын
Great advice Mark, I to did not know about this and though my photos really don't deserve backing up I will certainly do so now, incase one day I get a good picture :-)
@BassPlayerAvailable
7 жыл бұрын
Skip to 5m36s to backup full & properly (Although the rest was handy to know so thanks for the complete video)
@minecraftsyndrom
8 жыл бұрын
So, my Mac crashed, and I went all PC for my next shot at this. I have always had trouble with the torture of LR organization. Post Macpocalypse, I've realized my idea of "backup"... wasn't. Just "creatively messy storage". After your soul soothing tutorial I can't believe how much more I feel in control and can let go of all the hodge podge ideas I've heard about the "best" was to LR. Am I right to reason that I should keep my master catalog on my PC, separated from the HD's that will keep the future mini catalogs? lol, Uggh, I can't believe how logical it all sounds now and why you didn't tell me this sooner! Now come the transition from Mac to PC and the LR shuffle while reformatting my HD's. Things came kinda clear after several hours on WD's support line (God Bless you, John in Costa Rica!!!), I know how to consolidate drives and delete the now incompatible and useless time machine BU's. Not only do I now know what exfat is, but came make it happen! I have the following thoughts. 1} with all this shuffling around of the catalogs, I'm terrified they will become corrupt, and measures I can take to prevent it? I had one go corrupt last summer and all I did then was take it to Yellowstone. 2) Can I go retro with your system to organize my earlier ignorance? And 3} if you think I could safely reorganize my past, how can I prevent LR going into a rage as I try to get this down. And yes, she has very much become a living, cranky, beast in my mind. I'm a little overwhelmed, so forgive my verbal urping this morning. This is a tedious post, I know, so as much as I would love to have your advice, I completely understand if you bypass for a precise fan's questions. Thank you Thank you!
@catherinelacey68
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. I'm switching from Aperture with 7 years worth of images each in separate databases/libraries for each year and one for my family, one for clients. If I'm shooting say 100 family sessions a year on top of the weddings, is the suggestion that there will be 100 individual Lr catalogues (as backups) for those 100. I liked the Vault system in Aperture that backed up everything daily so I'm learning Lr. Thanks
@emilykun7835
10 жыл бұрын
Great upload! thank you!
@pierrelouismarketing
7 жыл бұрын
Very nice tutorial mate. I am getting my iMac fixed tomorrow so I had to backup all my images. I will subscribe to your channel :)
@telesa87
11 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I've been wondering this! I do have a question though. Let's say I back up a catalog and months later I go back and make some changes to some images (in Lightroom). Would I have to re-export this as a catalog and replace the old one in order to preserve the new changes? Thanks in advance!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
11 жыл бұрын
No need to re-export. Simply open the backup catalog directly off your external drive and make your changes. When you close the catalog the changes are saved with it! The folder on your backup drive will be whatever you named your backup and the file name that will open the backup catalog will be the same as the folder name followed by .LRCAT. Simply double click this file to open your backup catalog and images.
@philg6757
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate,nicely explained. Adobe could learn off you about this subject,their explanation made very little sense.
@kleintjeav
11 жыл бұрын
Great! I have read a lot about backing-up my LR files but I always failed. This helps a lot! I have one question. Say you have a catalog 2013 and I save all shoots from this year in there, how do I add new ones to the old catalog?
@LearningwithMarkWarren
11 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@MDMiller60
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark. I did learn something new. I did know about exporting to Catalog, but not as a tactic of backing up. I do have a program backing up my raw and .xmp files (Nikon), as well as using LR's Backup Catalog. But, of course I was not covering collections and virtual copies. Since I have tens of thousands of images, so I may switch to backing up shoots through LR. PROBLEM: I am trying to Import from Catalog but the import dialog has grayed out or inactive: Import button, Import All and individual folder items' checkmarks, and the individual pictures' checkmarks, as well as the entire preview thumbnails section. I can't do anything. The scenario is that my desired images (from a 3 month winter trip) and their Catalog are on an external drive. My main catalog is on my desktop computer and my live, working images are on an attached RAID box. My desktop computer only holds the Catalog and Previews.
@MusicAndOtherColors
10 жыл бұрын
Oh! Tank You So Much!!!!!
@michaelgriffin2695
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, interesting and informative video thanks. Is this still relevant in 2022 using Windows 10.?
@email4maw
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent instructional video Mark. I realize this video is almost 1 year old, I hope that you still check the comments and questions. My question is as follows: How do you set up your primary catalog? Do you keep a master catalog of everything or do you start a new master catalog every year? My understanding is that if you want to search through keywords, you can't search across catalogs and therefore having a single master catalog is useful. However, what would the performance impact be? I do like the idea of making the backups based on each shoot. Thank you for any feedback.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
I keep a single master catalog and add a folder with a new year as needed. I currently have 2012, 2013, and 2014 in my master catalog. I still backup and export shoots to their own catalog and they eventually get removed from the master catalog. Lightroom 5 has came out with a cool feature that I'm integrating into my workflow. They now allow you to create smart previews. It works like this. All your original images are stored on an external drive (for example). However LR also create a smaller resolution file that will stay on your primary drive and catalog. You can work on this image in the develop module and even export it with sizes up the 2560 on the long edge. If you need a bigger resolution file, simply plug in your external drive and the catalog will automation sync your smart preview file changes with the original images. I'm starting to use smart previews for several reasons. 1. Smart previews are smaller versions of the original and they run much faster than full res files while still retaining the quality. 2. This will allow me to take a catalog of all my images I've shot throughout the years as one master catalog on my laptop and I leave the originals safely at home. 3. For most exported images for social media and even prints 8x10 and under, 2560 pixels is more than enough resolution for what I need. Granted I still backup my catalog and original images so there are duplicates of everything but using smart previews are amazing! I hope this helps!
@MannyG32968
7 жыл бұрын
Mark, Excellent information on setting up your catalogs. Thanks!!
@raghubj
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, was helpful :-)
@alanp9891
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, once I’ve created a backup I’d like to clear down LR to start the New Year. What’s the best way of doing this?
@srypma
10 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, Thanks for this video. I took your advice and am backing up by the shoot by exporting the catalog for each shoot and then uploading it to google drive. I have one Lrcat file for each client on google drive. Is that enough to have everything backed up or do I also have to have the preview files and actual images? (So, three files for each shoot/client?)
@dquangt
11 жыл бұрын
so i just backed up a few thousand images to and external. just recently i went on a trip and took a few hundred more images that i would like to back up. my question is what is the best way to back up these new images without having to backup all the images that from the previous backup? i could just export that one new folder, but then wouldn't that just create multiple catalogs on my external backup drive?
@leesadiki8623
7 жыл бұрын
Hello Mark, after listening to you explain your "export catalog option" for backup I want to learn more. Do you have any current training training videos or any other training materials on the subject?
@1022704011
7 жыл бұрын
useful video. I have question. If I do backup in External HDD. After one or two month I do Backup again. At the time of backup it shows new added and Edited photos. but how can I get detail of removed pics? Is there any option to see removed picture in Local HDD(External HDD have more photos than in Lacal)
@alexlucasdesigns
11 жыл бұрын
When doing this will it preserve the editing that you have done? So if you do have to restore the images all of your edits will still be intact?
@damayoclinic
4 жыл бұрын
Can you backup your image on to a network attached storage?
@WilsonHoPhotography
9 жыл бұрын
Questions for you, if I export catalog and back up this way, do I still need to do the backup catalog option when exiting LR? Same as others, I keep coming back to this video as I tend to forget how to do it after few months. Now I am watching again and backing up my photos once again. Thanks Mark!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
9 жыл бұрын
Wilson Ho You don't necessary have to use the back catalog option in LR if you back the way I do but it's still a good idea to keep it on and occasionally back up the internal catalog in case something goes awry. HTH
@uocmong4982
3 жыл бұрын
good
@stensten
8 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark. Thanks for doing this tutorial! I was having some issues after creating the new folder for the photos to be backed up on. I right-clicked, selected "export folder as a catalog", created the new folder and clicked "save", but nothing happens after that. Do you have any recommendations on how I can troubleshoot this?
@dennishumbla5431
5 жыл бұрын
I have done like this export as catalog, but when I later on open It my edits that I have done to the Raw files are now restored as unedited files.. what did go wrong ?
@alanp9891
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, what’s the best way to clear down LR to start a new year? I’ve backed up catalog and images to external drive
@aduadu99
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This video is very useful. I have one query. What if I want to update changes made on catalogue in PC to Harddisk? Say I have worked on a project named "Test" and backed up in HDD. Later I make changes to "Test" in my PC like adding and deleting some images. Can I replace the catalogue or backup again in the HDD?
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
You can replace or copy the catalog from your internal drive to your backup drive. This will update the external catalog with the addition changes. You can also directly open up the catalog on the external drive and work on the images. there.
@mrkodee7557
7 жыл бұрын
Mark; I find you instructional videos to be extremely informative and easy to understand. Kudos and keep up the good work. Can you please tell me if there is anything that can be done to repair a corrupt master catalog? How does a catalog get corrupted? Also, I have found some photos that contain a black circle with an exclamation point in them that states that Lightroom cannot process this photo! What exactly does that mean? Those photos were previously reviewed without any problem; now, they are considered not able to read/process? Help!
@LearningwithMarkWarren
7 жыл бұрын
A catalog can get corrupted for any number of reasons. It could be bad sectors on a hard drive, perhaps a crash while LR was working, etc. If Lightroom isn't able to automatically repair the catalog I don't think there is much that you can do. As far as images that have exclamation marks, that's usually due to the photograph being moved or deleted from the original location of where LR associated it during import. Any moving or deleting images outside of images outside of LR doesn't make it happy. Take a look at these videos to see what I mean: kzitem.info/news/bejne/xZiPv2eJqKKIh3om5s and kzitem.info/news/bejne/y2t_v3qGqKmBgaQ.
@noelmedawar1167
10 жыл бұрын
hi mark, is it possible to merge several ctalogs into one ?
@atoulieneikhaphotography6590
5 жыл бұрын
I have open my photos in Lightroom....And without working into it I have closed my file....later on I went to open my same file....but it couldn't....it says you have already open this photos in another catalogue.....So can you tell me how to work out in the same file again
@HectorRiveraPhotography
7 жыл бұрын
Just switch to iMac apple/ having problems backing up my Lightroom catalogue to my second external hard drive it won't let me is just saying pick another location. I have my first external hard drive back up with time machine. But I want to have a second back up to my 2nd external hard drive Do I have reformat the external hard drive as well ? I did the with my first one ????? In order to back up Lightroom catalogue /raw photos /etc ??
@mtobp
8 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks ! I have a question: A back up my catalog weekly. It has been 3 days since the last back up. And I just made some small modifications on some photos in these 3 days. And I was stupid, I moved my catalog on the hard drive and when I reopened lightroom, it wasn't able to find the catalog and then I created a new catalog before connecting to the old one again. Now, I still have all the pictures and all the modifications EXCEPT the ones I made the last 3 days. Sure that is not really a big problem, but I am wondering: where is lightroom actually keeping all the information regarding modifications to the catalog an photos between the back up of the catalogs.. it must be stored somewhere on the hard drive for sure ?
@LearningwithMarkWarren
8 жыл бұрын
+trounoire This sounds a bit confusing but I think I know what you're getting at. If you have a main catalog (stored on your hard drive) and you make a backup catalog (stored external), after you make a backup and then go back to the main catalog, changes you make to you photos no longer go to the backup. There are ways to open a backup catalog and update it with any new changes from your main catalog but that gets a little trick. I'll have to do a video on this later. As for the location of your main catalog it's wherever you first put it when you first started lightroom. You can always find the location of a catalog in LR by going to edit, catalog settings, and the General tab. There it will show the location of the catalog that's open and it can open it in explorer or finder. HTH
@mtobp
8 жыл бұрын
+Learning with Mark Warren Thanks for the reply. I need to explain again: I have a huge catalog on my local hard drive. In this catalog I have Previews of my photos available. Now by mistake, I opened a new catalog. I do some work. I close the catalog again. And I want to go back to my old catalog with all my pictures and all the Previews on my local hard drive. My mistake was I did not backup this catalog before I opened the new one. So my problem is now that I still have all the pictures but only the changes I did on photos or the catalog (deleting selected photos). All Previews are missing too. My question is regarding where Lightroom is saving information between back ups. In between backups all the previews and changes I do on my catalog are backed up somewhere. The problem for me was not backing up and opening a new catalog, but I got curious as in how Lightroom operates in between backups. If I understand this better I thought it would be possible to find the missing changes and missing Previews lightroom created after my last backup. I hope this is more clear. Thanks !
@HaiHype
8 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, I had a quick question if you can please help me. I am making a backup of my catalog. I only have a master catalog and It's currently on my main external hard drive. I want to make a copy to another external drive. When you make backups to newly purchased hard drives do you sit there exporting each of the folders as a catalog? I recently downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner and cloned my main external hard drive to the newly purchased one, but when I opened Lightroom on the new hard drive every photo had the exclamation point. So I'm basically looking for ways to backup the entire hard drive but most importantly my photos and Lightroom. What is your method when you buy new hard drives?
@Jimjomac
8 жыл бұрын
Ok, I'm finally knuckling under and learning to use LR. One thing that annoys me about LR is that it insists on putting a dated folder under my destination folder, even though my folder is already dated. Any way to change that? But the real reason for my writing is even more annoying. Using your Export As Catalog method for the backup, under my destination folder I get even more. The structure of our ext drive file system is simple enough: We have in the main drive R:\MyPictures\Jim\(folder, like 20151127-LongwoodGardens). But when I export into the BU, I get S:\MyPictures\Jim\20151127LongwoodGardens\Jim\20151127-LongwoodGardens\20151127. Enough is enough! I tried putting it farther up the tree, but got similar results. Is there a way to prevent this?BTW, thanks for you video, very helpful!
@pantm83
10 жыл бұрын
Nice Video. I have a question. Until now i just copy folders with photos from one disk to other. I suppose i lose tags and all changes i made to my photos ??
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
If you copy just the photos and not the LR catalog with them you will lose tags and changes. This is why it's best to do everything within LR; ie backup, copy, move etc.
@barrytheartist
10 жыл бұрын
mark, is there an easy way to update the backup? basically, to ensure that the catalog (with all changes) and any new photos are backed up in the same place...simply replacing the old one?
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
It can get a little complicated adding photos to an existing backup. If you're just updating photos that are already in a backup then it's super easy. You just open the backup catalog, make your changes and exit. The changes you make are automatically saved in the backup catalog! When it comes to adding photos to a backup, let's say from your main catalog to your backup catalog, then you can open the backup catalog and use the option to import images from a catalog. To get the option to import from catalog, go to the Library module and hold the Alt or Option key. The Import button will change to Import Catalog. You can then point to your Main catalog and find the images you want to import to the backup catalog. It should give you options to import copies of the original images and the changes to the backup catalog. Like I said this process can be a lot trickier so I don't typically do this. My preferred method is after each shoot I process, I export it as it's own backup catalog from my main catalog. All my backups are individual shoots on an external drive that I can reopen at anytime. Once they're safely backed up and duplicated I delete them from my Main Catalog. It really helps having a good workflow to keep all of it nice and organized. I hope this helps!
@barrytheartist
10 жыл бұрын
do you think it's easier, assuming all your photos are saved in one folder, to back up the photos (the actual files) and catalogs individually? say, backing up your catalog once a week (or whatever) and then your photos whenever you have a significant amount of new photos? this seems like it would help to avoid some of the version control issues and complications...
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
It's not necessarily easier or harder, but just a different workflow. I used to do exactly that. I would back up my catalog once a week via lightroom's catalog backup options and then backup the images every couple of weeks after adding new ones to the catalog. It became more of a chore because I had to keep track in my head when I backed up what. It's much easier for me now to backup each shoot versus thinking about when I last backed up what.
@andrewzaragoza
10 жыл бұрын
Will all your post processing restore along with your images and catalog? I'm planning on backing up and upgrading to a new machine but I don't want to lose all my edits. Will all my images come back with all of my post processing?
@abrightside
10 жыл бұрын
This is extremely helpful, thank you! I've been reading articles on how to backup my LR catalog and images, but all of them seem over-complicated to me. This will really cut down on my workflow while giving me some control rather than simply backing up everything. Thanks again.
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@hgsutube2011
9 жыл бұрын
I currently work with my original photo matters as 1 catalog and the images on a external hard rive. but I would like to make a backup of all the masters. Can I use this "export as catalog" method to make a backup of an entire catalog that is 20K photo large onto a second hard drive?
@LearningwithMarkWarren
9 жыл бұрын
hgsutube2011 Absolutely!
@uptownphotography
9 жыл бұрын
I have about 20,000 (or more) raw images in my Master LR Catalog on my desktop from weddings I shot over the last year. Should I back them up (on an external drive) all at once or by individual jobs? All at once would be nice, but I am guessing this may take many hours to backup...Great video...Thanks and your advice would be appreciated. Philip
@calromaneschi2943
9 жыл бұрын
Uptown Photography If you have a USB 3 it will take much less time to backup
@lonestarmower
10 жыл бұрын
I backed up my mac and it saved all the pictures but lost the organization in lightroom by dates. I am wanting to back them up and delete them from my computer due to it getting bogged down. Is this the method you would use to be able to view all the info after deleting them entirely from computer?
@noelmedawar1167
10 жыл бұрын
Mark,i have dozens of folders, each one with its catalog is there a way to back them up in one go instead of doing it folder by folder?
@LearningwithMarkWarren
10 жыл бұрын
There's no easy way to backup individual catalogs at one time. However you can create a new empty catalog and use the import catalog option to bring all your catalogs into the new empty catalog. From there you can back up everything at one time.
@oaklandtobangkok
7 жыл бұрын
I wish I viewed these great instructions a long time ago. I am with your friend... They don't back up my images??? My bad...
@kenpoole1536
6 жыл бұрын
Hi, I have not yet put any photos yet into Lightroom 5, If I store all my images (Raw) on a external 4T hard drive only do I back up the catalogue and images onto this same ex hard drive, then I I want to make a 2nd back up do I need to have another 4T external hard drive using the same principal, assume this can be done?? or would you suggest an alternative way, thanks
@mja0786
11 жыл бұрын
Canon 600 camera light
@vesnaallanpo8774
6 жыл бұрын
hi anyone hepl,how can i back the photo in normal position to fix if a make a mistake on the photo obviusli its not like photoshop ?
@LearningwithMarkWarren
6 жыл бұрын
Press Ctrl+Shit+R or right click the image and click settings/reset to put the image back to the default. You can also go back to the settings from when it was first imported into the catalog by going to the history panel in the develop module. There are many ways to reset an image in LR and they are all non-destructive. I highly recommend watching the entire series I put together to understand how works.
@vesnaallanpo8774
6 жыл бұрын
thx so much i start lightroom 5 days i go im new but i learn quick thank you so much
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