Comments on: Tip - The Volume Browser

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:41:20 +0000

I’m having serious frustrating problems with the importing and cataloging in LR2 which I didn’t in LR1.

I have a ‘work’ folder on a disc, when I import to that folder on that disc it imports it but in does not appear in that folder - it does appear however in the ‘Volume’ of the same name.

If anyone understands this please help because it’s just a mess

By: Casey Karbowksi

Casey Karbowksi — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:15:08 +0000

Hey Matt, is there any way to move existing files to external hard drives and keep them in the catalog? I shoot weddings and would LOVE it if I could just have one catalog with all of my stuff rather than having to move everything off my hard drive every few weddings…Plus then I could have all my weddings on one catalog….

By: Sophia

Sophia — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:29:39 +0000

I’ve a related question of sorts. Say I filter in my gallery all the pictures taken in 2008 and wish to export them to DVD, is there a way to know the size (in megs) of these pictures before exporting to DVD?

It would be nice, for example, if the smart catalogs would show size or some other way.

Thank you

By: Martc

Martc — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:24:18 +0000

Matt — thanks for these great tips. I think this Volume browser is a fantastic and extremely useful feature, but have you noticed some issues with the custom properties it displays if you have multiple volumes? It appears there is a serious bug here, it displays the exact same info for all volumes if you choose disk space, and does some wierd and incorrect stuff with photo counts too. I can’t get the photo count to add up to the sum of the folders underneath it!

Has anyone else seen this?

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:46:39 +0000

Hey Matt,

I just finished watching your Lightroom In Depth videos on KelbyTraining and loved them. I have some questions about LR and PSE 6.0. Do you know where I might find some answers. Thanks.

By: Arno

Arno — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:09:39 +0000

I like this feature very much, it now enables me to put most of my images on a usb disk, and only keep the most receent shoots on my laptop, thus saving the much needed disk space

By: Matt Durst Photography

Matt Durst Photography — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:55:17 +0000

I like this feature. Thanks for bringing this feature up. I probably would have overlooked it since is was not something in LR 1.4. Look forward to more LR 2 posts.

Matt Durst

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:45:34 +0000

I think its a nice feature, but I would also like to be able to suppress it.

I have images across two drives, but in keeping with Lightroom’s more virtual nature, I would rather just see all of the directories together (and have volume information there only if i chose to turn it off).

I set the option to NONE for volume information, because when I am in LR I don’t need that information. I don’t think in terms of volumes. I would rather have less data on the screen. LESS is MORE!
Rob.

By: Florian

Florian — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:45:20 +0000

The feature is nice…
But LR 1.4 is not working without the external hard drives. I´ve got a Buffalo Terrastation NAS and my Laptop. If I disconnect the LAN-Cable and Start Lightroom it takes a couple times to start and when it´s up and I try to scroll in the Library LR hangs totally.
So for me the feature is not very useful

Maybe somebody knows why…
Thanks

Florian

By: Dean Whitling

Dean Whitling — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:27:06 +0000

Hi
I actually have the volume browser display set to none.
I’m running xp pro locally but archive everything to a MS Homserver. For some reason, xp only “sees” the first drive on the homeserver (130gb for op system only) even though I have over 2TB in there.
The problem occurs when the display is turned on, LR2 thinks the drive is full and wont let me use it anymore. By turning the display off it bypasses this and lets me use the drive.

Cheers, Dean