Hi Rich


Quote Originally Posted by Richard Lane
Is there a setting in Aperture and/or Lightroom that will delete the original as well?

Sorry I can't speak for Aperture but for LR3, when I'm viewing imported photos in the Library module (not in the collections panel), I quickly fun through "picking" ("p" key) and "rejecting" ("x" key) the keepers and the non-keepers. When I'm done, I filter for the rejected ones and just hit delete - a dialog comes up asking me if I want to 1. remove from catalog only or 2. remove from catalog AND hard disk.


LR3 allows you to specify a backup folder location. I'm pretty sure its in "Preferences" under the "file handling" tab (can't be sure as I'm at work anddon't have LR3 in front of me). LR3 is pretty new to me still so I could be wrong here.There's also a preference you can set where it automatically backs-up once a week (the default is actually once a week, I think).


I LR3 back my Catalog up once a week onto my internal HD. I can then copy that catalog to an external for redundacy.


Lightroom 3 is really just a database - it stores, by default, (and you can change this if you want) all your changes to the photo IN the catalog so if you were to open the photo (from the original file location) none of your changes would be applied in the new program. There is a setting that you can change that will write all changes to a RAW or DNG photo in LR3 to an XMP file so if you WERE to open the photo in another program your LR3 changes would be applied.


Hope that helps.


As I mentioned to Denise, there's a great set of videos at www.lynda.com on LR3....


Damian