Lightroom import and compatibility

DavidTO

I'm running into a problem. I'm trying to import all of my photos (on one drive) into Lightroom. Mostly it's going fine, but there are 495 PSD files that wouldn't import because they did not have "maximize compatibility" enabled when they were saved. Some book I read years ago said not to bother, so I turned it off.

Well, when I look in Bridge to find all my PSDs, it only finds 91. I think this has to do with how deeply they're buried in the file structure and how deeply Bridge is willing to look for them.

What I want to accomplish is to find them all, and them somehow run a batch action on them to update them so that they "maximize compatibility".

Any ideas? :ear

BradfordBenn

Okay dumb question, but I gotta stick with my talents...

Windows or Mac OS/volume?

DavidTO

BradfordBenn wrote:

Okay dumb question, but I gotta stick with my talents...

Windows or Mac OS/volume?

Good question! I shoulda mentioned. Mac 10.5.1.

Oh, and I just did my best to answer your question in that other thread!

BradfordBenn

DavidTO wrote:

Good question! I shoulda mentioned. Mac 10.5.1.

Oh, and I just did my best to answer your question in that other thread!

Unfortunately I don't have an answer for you under Mac. Under Windows, yup but Mac as you can see I am still getting my arms around it. I wonder if the same approach would work under Mac though.

I did a find/search to find all the PSD files using the search utility. I then created Shortcuts (Mac would be Aliases) of all of them in a single folder that was at the top level of my drive. I then pointed Bridgve to that folder. However trying that on the Mac, I do not see the ability to create all the aliases at once like I can on Windows by right clicking when I drag. Yes, I have a multibutton mouse.

DavidTO

BradfordBenn wrote:

Unfortunately I don't have an answer for you under Mac. Under Windows, yup but Mac as you can see I am still getting my arms around it. I wonder if the same approach would work under Mac though.

I did a find/search to find all the PSD files using the search utility. I then created Shortcuts (Mac would be Aliases) of all of them in a single folder that was at the top level of my drive. I then pointed Bridgve to that folder. However trying that on the Mac, I do not see the ability to create all the aliases at once like I can on Windows by right clicking when I drag. Yes, I have a multibutton mouse.

cmd-opt-drag will make aliases. I'm doing a spotlight search right now.

And of course you have a multi-button mouse. Your Mac came with one, even if you did replace it.

DavidTO

Well, it found 1700+ items, and I only need the 459.

BradfordBenn

DavidTO wrote:

Well, it found 1700+ items, and I only need the 459.

I guess I should have said I did a date sort and other things to pare it down.

Also my MacBook Pro did not come with a mouse at all. But I now know what to program one of the buttons to do.

SloYerRoll

If you can isolate the 459 files you need. Which it sounds like you can. Just create a droplet on your desktop that opens the files then resaves w/ "maximize compatibility" turned on.

I haven't don't this process exactly w/ a droplet. But I've done things very close to this and don't see why it would be any different.

Hope this helps a bit.

Merry Christmas!

-Jon

Icebear

Good Lord Jon
It was 0430 when you posted! Did Santa Claus wake you up???

SloYerRoll

I am Santa Claus!

"Some assembly required". Nuff said.

BradfordBenn

So did you get it to work?

SloYerRoll

DavidTO

Hey! I lost track of this thread somehow.

Uh, no, I didn't. Of course, I tried a bit, and then got distracted. :hide