Backup RAW files only

Hi there,
is it possible to backup the large RAW/DNG files on an external hard drive and keep the preview files on my laptop? Am working on a MacBook Pro and RAW files take up too much space. Still, I want to keep the previews.
Thanks a lot!!!
Carl

I am working on a Lenovo laptop with a small 80 gig hard drive... My catalog & previews are on my C drive
I have 2 external drives... 1 is 500 gig where i store my raw files... the other external drive is a 1 tera byte used to backup my raw file & my c drive.
To backup my main 500 gig, i use a small utility named Directoty Synchronizer... Once a day, i will start this utility & it will sync my 1 tera drive with my 500 gig... XMP files that has been updated will be copy over, files that has been deleeted on my main 500 gig will also be deleeted on my 1 tera, new rendered tif or JPG will be copy over etc... all that compeetly automated.
I also copy to the 1 tera the backup of the lightroom catalog that is made every day and once a week, (i am a bit parano when it comes to backup), i will image my C drive & put the image on my 1 tera byte external...
Of course, i also have backup copies of my raw files on DVD in case things goes verrrrrry bad...
I learned the hard way that backup is something we must not postpone after i lost 25 hours of work in photoshop to create a 20 pages album for 1 of my customer

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Hi again
Sorry the delay in getting back to my post but I've been a tad busy.
Well, after a bit of testing I can confirm that the problem does seem to be an issue with Vista (32bit and 34 bit) as Jeff states.
I tried importing the raw files into Vista 32-bit, Vista 64-bit and XP 32-bit and whilst all operating systems allowed the import of JPEG files, I was only able to import the raw files into XP.
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What makes you think that the raw files are being opened as JPGs?
Do you shoot RAW+JPG and opening the JPG files bt mistake?
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When pictures are already in Lightroom, I use filters in the library view to show only RAW, or only JPEG, or both (by applying a filter on the file extension).
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What I'd like to do is shoot everything in raw + jpg, and then keep the raw files only for the important shots.
I really like having the option of raw processing, but the storage demands are very heavy. If I could just make a selection of photos in a roll, and have a command to delete any unneeded raw files from the selected photos, while keeping the original jpgs as master, that would be great.
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I had a chance to talk to product managers from both Apple & Adobe about this at PhotoPlus Expo in NYC a couple years back. Both seemed receptive, but here we are - years later - no progress.
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What I want is simple, and it would be immediately useful to countless photographers:
1) Let me batch-delete RAW files when the jpegs are ok.
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Some files still open others do not. I can think of only one thing. I was shooting a large number of frames and reduced the RAW Image size down from RAW Large Only to RAW Medium with Small Jpeg to give me more room on the Compact Flash Card.
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