Editing Working With Digital Photograph Archives

[[Category:Photography]]
== Moving photos from DVD disks to NAS ==

=== Viewing photo information in Adobe Lightroom ===

* Open the '''Photo Archive''' catalog in Adobe Lightroom.
** Work on Windows since the iMac doesn't have a DVD drive.
** Photos that are only on DVD will be marked as "missing" in the catalog.
* Mount a photo archive DVD. 
* Find the corresponding collection for that DVD in the Lightroom catalog. 
** The photos for this DVD may or may not be located. Some of the DVDs were mapped to the `G:\` drive when added to the catalog and some were mapped to the `E:\` drive.

=== Copying photos to NAS ===

* Open Powershell
* For each directory on the DVD:

<syntaxhighlight lang="powershell">
c:\> cd e:\
e:\>  robocopy .\places N:\photos\archive\places /S /xf /XO *.xmp
</syntaxhighlight>

* Add the `\L` option to the `robocopy` command to do a test run.
* Eject the DVD. Now the photos in the Lightroom collection corresponding to the DVD will be missing.
** Click the exclamation mark at the top right of the photo thumbnail in the Lightroom gallery to locate the missing photo.
** Find the photo file on the NAS drive.