Apple changed the way they compute the total number of bits.  They don't round down like everyone else and it is sometimes a pain, but drive capicity more closely matches that shown on the drive.

However, the actual number of bits is the same.  Try to burn a folder and see if doesn't fit on one DVD disc.

When I'm filing up a folder to fit on a DVD, I use John's Lightroom plugin 'Size and count' - it computes the MB count the traditional way.  Another method would be to use trial and error to find out what 4.3 GB translates to on a Mac and make a note of it.

Mark

XMP sidecar files:

You could delay conversion of the proprietary RAW files to DNGs until finished all editing prior to archiving.  During this phase, the incremental backups would be small.

What about the future?:

Some people keep the original proprietary RAW files (outside of the DNG file) to hedge their bets.  To save storage space, you could delete all but your 3, 4 and 5 star images after archiving the DNGs.

Mark

This may be of some help until you get a more complete answer. When you have the Vocabulary editor open (mine was set to Default > Keywords), there is a button in the upper right hand corner. When I clicked it, it opened up the Finder (Mac) to the Vocabulary folder containing the Default Vocabulary folder which contained the text file for the keyword field for instance.  The keyword file was a text file which could be backed as is and also edited out side of EM.

I'm not sure how to import all the keywords from this file at once, I just see how to do it one word at a time.

Mark

Apple changed the way they counted bytes with Snow Leopard.  I don't know if this had anything to with it, but I remember reading that individuals were suing Apple when they bought, say, a 16 gig iPod but it would have less than 16 gigs of space.  Apple was using the longtime industry criteria for naming but that didn't stop people from suing. Maybe there were suits over other hardware or they wanted to head off any additional ones.

Mark

I don't place any date after my bucket folders except for the last one of the year which I add    ", end 2010".   However, all the files are in continuos chronological order from one bucket to the next. I usually only fill the buckets to about 90% capacity in case I come across a few files later that were missed.  My only exception to the chronological order is at the end of the year I take all the photos that were taken by others, and that I want to backup using my archive system, and I put them in subfolder in the last bucket(s) for the year.  As those files were sent to me throughout the year, I add a prefix to the file name consisting of someone's initials and date of the photo, or the date I received it if I don't know the date it was taken.  I have A Better Finder Renamer droplet that speeds this up if do over a few files at a time.

I don't distribute to buckets until I have built up a number of buckets worth of files.  It makes completing metadata more efficient for me if I finalize a large number of files at once.  This does delay burning to disc, which adds risk, but I do keep an offsite copy on a HD that gets swapped every 2 weeks.

If the chronological order of the files are not continuous from one bucket to the next, adding the date of a file in the bucket would be misleading.

I think after about 6-9 months into implementing the bucket system, I had to rethink what I was doing to be more efficient but what works for the number and type of originals I was dealing with, what works with the software I was using, and still follows the basic principals of Peter's DAM system.

"right now mine are; Originals 01

Raw_001"


You are using both Originals XX and Raw_XXX folders?

Mark

"...or I saw in another thread that Peter has a directory of buckets for camera scans, perhaps I should have a directory of scans from my flatbed scanner?"

Peter has done tens of thousands of camera scans I believe.  I wouldn't be surprised if he's done 200K.  It makes sense for him, but may not for you.  I don't have the quantity to justify a separate directory in my mind. 

I think of raw scans as originals (digital originals) and a pixel edited version as a derivative, so the raw scans (flat-bed, camera scans) go with my digital camera originals and the pixel edited versions go with the derivatives.

I don't do much video.  But I don't like the idea of mixing 1 or 2 or more gigabyte files with my still originals, so personally I would have a separate directory for videos.

Mark

Peter,
Thanks that's good to know.  (I am using DNG.)

Mark

My thoughts got side tracked - the first sentence relates to the question as I take it you should not delete user generated camera profiles unless you are sure the profile is not being used or don't care if it is.

Mark

I can see where someone may end up with numerous profiles in their Camera Raw/Camera Profiles folder.  Am I assuming correct that when you save metadata to a DNG file in Lightroom, that the user generated camera color profile file in use for that DNG file is not saved to the DNG file?

Mark

Sorry, I meant quotation marks. Bad mistake.

When I mentioned that I used Any Searchable Field, I was mainly noting that I didn't need to go to the trouble of selecting Keywords in the drop-down menu.  However, I do recall that occasionally selecting "Any Searchable Field" working better than selecting "Keywords" when trying to filter by keywords in LR2.  Doesn't make sense.

Peter's suggestion of using the Filter Panel's Metadata>Keywords is the best option for LR2 then.  You could type 'haugen" in the Text field prior to selecting Metadata>Keywords to make the keyword list shorter.

Mark

Neil,

I'm using LR3 - I did a test.  I used the filter panel, clicked the "Text" option and typed in a keyword that has two words (with the second word being one that is found in other keywords).  LR3 seems to filter the way you would like.  (I just left the Text criteria as the default "Any Searchable Field" instead of selecting "Keywords".)

Maybe someone can confirm this behavior in LR3.

Does placing parenthesis around Anna Haugen in LR2 help?

Mark

John,

I recently deleted my LR Preferences file and my plugins weren't available.  I downloaded BeardyReplace and installed.  The plugin window has this statement:

"The latest version of this program is 1.0.5.2, you are running version 1.0.6.7."  Weird.

Second, I do not see a way to pay for this plugin.  Actually, the plugin worked for me today without paying.  I used it today several times on about 90 to 120 files each time time I ran it.

Mark

Intel Mac, OS X 10.6.2

I wonder if all this storage per minute is based on the whole project and not just what takes made it to release. Plus the movie was filmed for IMax 3D and seemed to be a higher resolution than the average film.   Whatever the case, I'm sure they'll just downsample to fit home media - should look as good as any other movie released for home use.

Mark

I used to get that message when trying to copy an entire volume.  I'll try the (Admin access) option - thanks for the tip.

Mark