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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Neil Folberg on March 05, 2011, 03:55:35 pm

Title: backing up specific files
Post by: Neil Folberg on March 05, 2011, 03:55:35 pm

Hello,

I'm working on a large book project and want to back up the better  selected raw images with the corrections that I made in LR to another hard disk with RAID just in case - and so that I have all the best files in one location.

How does one do this in LR3? I assumed that I could just select the files and then instruct LR to make copies to another disk and include them in the catalog, but I can;t figure out how.

Suggestions are welcome! Thanks, Neil

Title: Re: backing up specific files
Post by: aduke on March 05, 2011, 04:04:17 pm

I would create an export preset, putting the images in a specific folder.

Alan

Title: Re: backing up specific files
Post by: wolfnowl on March 05, 2011, 05:49:32 pm

Yes, with LR3 you can even create an Export Publish Collection, so you'd specify the drive as the export location, resolution, etc. and simply drag the desired images into that collection and 'Publish' them to back them up.

Mike.

Title: Re: backing up specific files
Post by: Neil Folberg on March 06, 2011, 04:48:14 am

Many thanks for your suggestions! I created a smart collection of photos to publish and published this to my RAID disk. Makes me feel much more secure with the data.

best wishes, Neil