Working With Digital Photograph Archives

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:

c:\> cd e:\
e:\>  robocopy .\places N:\photos\archive\places /S /xf /XO *.xmp

• 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.