Sort the photos you've copied to the hard drive directly on that hard drive (assign labels, ratings, titles, descriptions, copy or move to different (sub-)folders, or move to the _Rejected subfolder).Browse the memory card using FastRawViewer, select the files you want to keep, and copy the selected files to a folder on a hard drive. ![]() Suggested 2-stage Workflow for Initial Sorting Photos with FastRawViewer: We are often asked, how do we deal with these limitations and risks ourselves? Now, we're not saying that this is the only way, but here is what we do: it makes sense to follow a slightly different, 2-stage workflow for sorting photos, which avoids both writing to a card and wasting time and disk space on copying and ingesting (into Adobe Lightroom) all the files while some of them may be “missed shots”. So, if you have decided to take the risk and assigned metadata to your photos while sorting photos directly on a memory card, you still need to copy the files and their sidecars to a hard drive for Adobe Lightroom to acknowledge your sorting tags. On top of that, Adobe Lightroom doesn't expect and therefore ignores any sidecar XMP files on memory cards (those sidecar files are where all ratings, labels, titles, and descriptions assigned to a raw file are contained), and may also have trouble exporting XMP from external or networked drives. That is why sorting photos by rating them, labeling, or moving to different folders while the photos (and destination folders) remain on a memory card is not a great idea. writing to a memory card outside the camera is unsafe (USB malfunctions, sudden disconnects, card failure, spontaneous computer reboots - any or all of these may cause a disaster). ![]() There's always the allure of sorting photos, setting the ratings and labels directly to the memory card and then just deleting what's unnecessary from the card. So, the shoot is over and you need to deal with the material you got from it.
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