Editing Working With Digital Photograph Archives (section)

=== Copying photos to NAS ===

* Open Powershell
* Copy the files using `robocopy` (assuming that the photo category folders are at the root level of the DVD):

<syntaxhighlight lang="powershell">
c:\> robocopy e:\ N:\photos\archive /s /xo /xx /xf *.xmp
</syntaxhighlight>

* `robocopy` parameters:
** `/s` - Include subdirectories
** `/xo` - Exclude if the file exists in the destination and is the same age or newer
** `/xx` - Ignore files in the destination that don't exist in the source
** `/xf` - Exclude files matching the pattern  
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.
[[Category:Lightroom]][[Category:Photography]]