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 (assuming that the photo category folders are at the root level of the DVD):

c:\> robocopy e:\ N:\photos\archive /s /xo /xx /xf *.xmp

• 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.