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I can understand your not having an issue with this feature as it does not conflict with your workflow. In any case, Lr won't let you do it, except manually, which isn't going to help much. And I need to change folder names or move them from time to time. I certainly wouldn't object to having Lr have this sort of backup functionality built in, but since I don't always have it running, I don't think I'd use it anyway.

I've used it when I wanted to make sure I had copies of the whole card to give to traveling companions. It's a workflow backup it added the info of when you imported, since perhaps the capture dates on that card spanned several days and maybe was last used two weeks ago before you got home from a trip. Sorta like the automatic smart collection.

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That's a big plus of versioning it's like a non-destructive editor for backups.Р”В«y default Lr ADDs information, probably assuming most people use other backup strategies. I prefer to have a mutable folder structure, but even if you don't, that folder structure is a source of what may be important information and backing that up is essential, at least to me. In a Lr-generated second copy scheme that seems like a potential problem, since THAT change is not backed up. With versioning, if I subsequently change the folder name or file name that change is backed up as well. I have both versioned and simple-copy backups. And I only backed up verified good imports.

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I haven't asked Lr to make a copy, but other software did that. If I import into Lr and that copies to my boot drive, and then I verify all went well, then my backup will back THAT up, making a copy of the verified files (not read-only, but practically so). Then it is a simple process of copying the backup file to the original's location. In a normal situation, the original master images file would get backed up one time and never need to be backed up again. Your backup copy is the same data as the original. Your Original Image file remains in that original state.

Building that functionality into a DAM tool is redundant and I can not think of any DAM tool that does duplicate the functionality of System backup software. System backup software is specifically written to proved all of your critical user data files (including images files) from disk failure, data corruption and 'stupid user mistakes'. DAM tools like LR are not designed to take the place of system backup software. 'Make a Second Copy' is not designed to do what you want. I thought I answered your original question in my first reply. The only backup process included in LR is a snapshot copy periodically of the LR catalog file and even this though misnamed is not a 'backup'.

It has nothing to do with a backup process. 'Make a Second Copy' os an optional function included in the Import process. So even if you are using an destructive editor like Photoshop, you should be able to find a version of the backup file that is in a state that existed before the file was changed or deleted. Then it is a simple process of copying the backup file to the original's location.Р”Р„ good system backup software app will preserve versions and deleted files. If not, are there plugins that can do the second copy during import with a custom folder specification?Р”В¬lick to expand.Lightroom is a non destructive editor. Is there any way to change the naming template? I want a second copy of the image during import, same file and folder name structure, just a different root directory. The default naming with spaces and commas and long names makes archiving very difficult, 8.3 naming with no spaces is friendly to all filesystems, spaces and commas and long names only work on some filesystems.

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I'd like to switch to LR's import exclusively, except I can't figure out how to change the directory structure for the 'make second copy' function? I match the filename and folder structure so I can easily find the original image, in case I mess something up with the editable versions.

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Hi, I've been importing my pictures from camera card using ImageIngester Pro for many years, and I create two matching folders during import, one for later import into LR, and one as the original read-only image backup.