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How to stop LR from putting imported photosen into a dated folder?

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tsinsf

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When I import photos from an SD card in my card reader (using Copy photos to a new location and add to catalog) and choose to make a second copy to a folder in an external drive, LR creates a new subfolder in the external drive folder titled : "Imported on...X". Is there a way to stop it from creating this by-date subfolder?
 
When I import photos from an SD card in my card reader (using Copy photos to a new location and add to catalog) and choose to make a second copy to a folder in an external drive, LR creates a new subfolder in the external drive folder titled : "Imported on...X". Is there a way to stop it from creating this by-date subfolder?
No, unfortunately there is not.
 
Thanks! Bummer...
These second copies have a purpose and this purpose is to protect the users image assets. Before import, your images are limited to one and only one copy that exists on the card. Lose or damage that card and you have lost your images forever. Import your images into LR gives you two copies, one on the card and one on the disk drive. Until your system backup software kicks in, you are wise if you don't erase the card so that you have two copies of the originals. This is where the "Make a Second Copy..." comes in. Two copies on (preferably two different) drives. With the "Make a Second Copy...", you can safely erase the images on the camera card. "Make a Second Copy..."is not meant to be used in any other way. Import 500 images into LR and realize that 400 are garbage. When you delete these 400 worthless images, and all 500 are still in the "Make a Second Copy..." Dated folders in the "Make a Second Copy..." provide a concise way to identify image originals that have had time to be backed up with the system backup and no longer are needed for their "belt & suspenders" security.
 
No, unfortunately there is not.
Are you creating a second copy of all your imports? If so, there is a box that you can check/tick to set this option on or off. And if you, you can set the second copy folder.

All my photos are on Drive E:. My second copy folder is on Drive G:. In case Drive E: fails, I have a backup of recent imports, in addition to the regular backup of my Drives C:, D:, E: and F:

Phil Burton
 
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