For the same reason you wouldn't drive your car in reverse if you want to move forward, you would make more headway using the application in the way it was designed. Many people dislike applications with separate catlogs because they are acccustomed to a system akin to Adobe Bridge which simply picks up the file structure from your hard drive. If this is the syndrome affecting you, I can assure you, you would sacrifice absolutely nothing by maintaining a properly functioning Lightroom catalog thus making access to your photos so much easier. Once having brought your photos into the catalog, every time you move them around outside the catalog, you complicate accessing them for working on them in the Develop module, then you get frustrated because the catalog isn't working for you and you discard it - of course it isn't because you aren't using it correctly. If you so wish, you can design Lightroom Collections within the Catalog to have the same file structure that you have on your hard drive and in this way everything remains familiar to you, while working from within the application efficiently.
Mark, thank you for your respons...
There are some things i do not like about LR..
does it see PSD and PSB files... ?
I work with panorama's and the base are made of 16 bit tiff
so it sees half of what i do.
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I agree my workflow is not standard - i work with media Pro local catalogue - filemaker database ( connecting everything) and Neofinder that has made a database of my 14 Harddisk archive.
I can find anything i want in 5 seconds...- anything... not only images.
These three programs are well buit and very flexible in use.
This way i work already 20 years so no disruption of any kind.
Now only if Media pro would be continued and updated ...
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I can recommend Neofinder btw.