I've used LR for some while (version 1, 2 and now 2.2), but can't settle on a workflow that really suits me. What I would like to do is follows:-
1. Import new images to my hard drive, with backup to an external hard drive.
2. Write a further backup to DVD only when I have a "dvd-full" (i.e about 4.5 Gb) , so the DVD, will not be exclusively one shoot (some shoots may be less than 1Gb and to burn, and more importantly, store, mostly-empty DVD's is impractical). I still need to keep track of what's on the DVD, ideally in LR.
3. Work up my new images on the internal drive (faster), but when I've finished (results delivered to client), say a month later I want to move the files, with their XMP files to an external drive, but still keep them in my catalog.
So my questions are:-
Ref item 2 above, do you only burn DVDs "per shoot" and do you include DVDs in your catalog? isn't it rather along list of offline files?
Ref item 3 above, What is the best way to move folders from my internal to an external drive while still retaining the photos in LR.
Sorry it's such a long question, but I'm pretty confused!!