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Started by cswalsh
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:50
Improve "Reconnect" options
Author: cswalsh
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:50
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:50
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Would love to see improved media management in future versions. Specifically: 1. Ability to reconnect groups of photos or, better yet, entire folders. Currently I have to reconnect each photo to it's "best match" one by one, then click on another photo in the disconnect column to refresh the matches. 2. Ability to save reconnect lists -- if I'm going to spend hours fixing files, it would be nice to be able to save the "unlinked" list. 3. Ability to print out or export the "unlinked" list to make it easier to search my backup media for the right match - would need file name, creation date and size at least. 4. Better documentation/explanation of the reconnect features -- either make it all work and work transparently so I don't have to know about reconnect, or if the database can't handle that, explain it better. Current workflow is absurdly slow -- seems to have been designed by sadistic monkeys. Hard to believe this is really version 6.
Re: Improve "Reconnect" options
Author: John_Rolfe_Ellis
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:04
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:04
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The Reconnect command does let you reconnect entire folders and folder hierarchies quickly, though it๏ฟฝs not at all clear from the user interface how to do it. See this FAQ: <http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Quickly_reconnecting_large>
Re: Improve "Reconnect" options
Author: cswalsh
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:30
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:30
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Thanks John -- I think my issue was not having the "automatic reconnect" turned on. Using reconnect "all missing" still required me to hit reconnect for each photo. I did discover that if I started at the bottom of the list (rather than the top, where the interface defaults), then at least the list refreshed automatically as I reconnected each photo. This made it just one click to reconnect each photo instead of three clicks...which reduced my cursing at the Adobe team by two thirds as well. The best thing, as you suggest, is to only move photos from within PSE, not via windows explorer. It's such a key point that Adobe should make a bigger deal about it, either during software installation, or loading, or even a large sticker on all the boxes. It's more than a tip for users -- it's more like a warning.
Re: Improve "Reconnect" options
Author: John_Rolfe_Ellis
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:11
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:11
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Using reconnect "all missing" still required me to hit reconnect for each
photo.
Normally, you can reconnect a whole folder of disconnected photos, as described in step 3 of the FAQ:
<http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Quickly_reconnecting_large>
I๏ฟฝm curious -- did step 3 not work for you?
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