Lightroom is in Beta!

I am enjoying the learning curve into Lightroom and feel that this will be a great success for Adobe. The more I get into the application, the more I like it.

But there is one annoying tendency with the latest Beta 4.1. And that is the default location of the library. Seems like Adobe only wants it to be on the computer users hard drive, specifically within the Photos folder (I'm using Mac folderspeak here). I have also noted that, while I could reference files on an external drive, so far the program will not recognize the iPod as a legitimate storage device to reference files from.

But I am making headway in using the enabled iPod hard drive as the place to store both images and library files. It's not been easy and I still wonder if one small mistake could screw up the entire organization. I have found Luminous Landscape's Lightroom tips useful - he, like me, wants to store images on an external hard drive. So, if you are interested in Lightroom's capabilities, his site is worth examining. And he also points out the emphasis in the title of this post: Lightroom is still in development, don't expect perfection!