Library module Folder Cleanup Question

[kitjv]

Lightroom Version Number

14.1.1

Operating System

1. macOS 15 Sequoia

Several months ago I retrieved a number of photos that were located in folders from 2006 to 2014 in order to post-process them for printing. However, I noticed recently that that these newly-processed photos were located in the 2025 folder. For the sake of maintaining orderly folders, I didn't want photos with dates from 2006 to 2014 in my 2025 folder. When I attempted to drag & drop them back into their original folders, I got the message that these photos already existed there. I considered going back to the 2025 folder & deleting the 2006 to 2014 photos. However, in doing so, I was fearful that I would also be deleting these photos from their original folders as well. Is there a way to resolve this issue? My apologies if I am being rather vague in my explanation. Thank you so much.

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Check in the MacOS Finder if these photos are indeed also in the 2006 to 2014 folders, as well as in the 2025 folder. If so, then you most likely copied them to the 2025 folder when you imported them. That means that the copies in the 2006 to 2014 folders can be deleted (in the Finder), and then you can move the copies that are currently in the 2025 folder to the correct folders, using Lightroom (so Lightroom knows what you did).

 

[clee01l]

Several months ago I retrieved a number of photos that were located in folders from 2006 to 2014 in order to post-process them for printing..

If you reimported them (and it sound like you did) you do not need to to reprocess.

The logical approach could be to create virtual copies and add those virtual copies to a collection targets for reprocessing. Both the master copies and the virtual copy point to the same images file stored in the original folder. Folders are for storage not organization.


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