Export and copy at the same time?

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Export and copy at the same time?

Diantsm

When I want to preserve a photo, I export a JPEG and I save a copy of the RAW file as well. My "keep" rate is something like 1-10%, so I like to be confident I can delete my imports after a while, knowing that the keepers have been copied out.

Is there a way to set up the Export tool so that it exports a JPEG and copies the RAW file at the same time? The best solution I have now is to switch between the two Export presets, but I always want to do both and it would be create if I could do these in a single click.

MrSteveVee

Set up different export parameters and save them, when you export, tick all the ones that you want to apply

Diantsm

MrSteveVee How is this possible? I don't see a way to "tick" multiple export module presets.

Niels-Hansen

The idea behind DT is that you have your images in the library as your primary archive. Using the different methods as folders-subfolder, tagging etc. makes it really efficient to find images again.
New libraries can also be added on same or other disks or network locations. It makes it easy to manage large collections of images with several 100.000's of images

Diantsm

Niels-Hansen i suppose i can tag/star the keepers and then regularly filter and mass delete everything else. this was my workflow in capture one but i don't like it.

maybe another option is to write a lua script which kicks off an export with multiple module presets. if someone else has written one already, id love to know.

MrSteveVee

Diantsm sorry I think I was referring to a different software package and got it muddled with DT

MrSteveVee

Although I do not use DT as my DAM I have around 180k images I’m various states so I use ratings and colours. Rating 1 is rejects , 2 is working copy (normally raw that will have an associated edited jpeg) non rated is either wanted or not looked at yet. Green is an edited final. Yellow is edited but not quite there yet

priort

You can't copy your raw file with export.... when you open your raw in DT it has some processing steps that are performed so that you can view it. When you export you need to pick some file type for export and then save that out... this is not a copy of your raw. You need to do this by some other means ie in OS or with some backup software.. I think you can also do an image copy using the selected images tab in the lighttable view....