@BHAYT, your talent to bury questions in your long posts makes it difficult to find the questions in the first place and then, asking a question ending it with a “?” could help too.
What does Lightroom Classic offer that DPL doesn’t in a world of shifting sands?
Here are a few features that could help to keep DPL’s database in sync with reality:
- LrC discovers that a folder or image is missing, misplaced or renamed, marks the item in question and offers options for me to search for the item that is missing, misplaced or renamed.
- LrC lets me remove items from the catalog without moving those items to the trash.
- LrC sync folders: Rescan a folder and add/change/remove items (not) found in that folder.
While this doesn’t sound like much, it helps to keep the Lr catalog true to what is on the drive or in sync with my intentions. DPL can’t do that as we have seen from the tests I ran and described here: Photo Browser Not Displaying All Images - #26 by platypus
To be clear: I want DPL to offer similar services and I want to be able to launch them manually, not have them performed automatically.