moving files

[rNeil]

I've been using LR for over a year. Going soon to 2.x as we upgrade our software, but still on 1.4x.

Migrating files is still a headache for me. As LR doesn't show folders it doesn't "see", you can't really reliably move ONLY the folders you want from within LR. It seems to at times grab several folders up the tree and take them too when I didn't ask it to. The only way to find this is to go through file manager after-the-fact and look.

And the only way to clean this up is "outside" of LR meaning LR loses the folder you told it to move. And just now, when I told it to refind and then sync the folder, it 'lost' all the metadata I'd entered. On the 7' images, many of them keyed individually. And no, I hadn't backed up that folder yet.

I"ve got quite a few folders to move into this as I'm in the process of separating my files from the "archives" that my wife and I share.

Any suggestions? I've got some of this down fine, but I have been so frustrated by moving files in or without it.

Neil

 

[Kiwigeoff]

Neil, I would wait until you have LR2 as you can add folders from the library module making what you want very easy.
Otherwise you can create the folders on your HD and add a "dummy" image file in each, import the folders, delete the "dummy" files and shift what you want into the folders.
Oh, how we are all learning to manage our files !!!:lol::lol:

 

[rNeil]

Would I had time ...

But we're building me a new website, and my webbie is on my tail to get her images to select from as most of the rest of my sitework is done. Won't have the time to do the upgrades on all 6 machines around here till after Xmas, probably. If I don't have the pics to her in the next 4-5 days, um ... it's going to get a bit chilly inside here ...

Neil

 

[Kiwigeoff]

Would I had time ...

But we're building me a new website, and my webbie is on my tail to get her images to select from as most of the rest of my sitework is done. Won't have the time to do the upgrades on all 6 machines around here till after Xmas, probably. If I don't have the pics to her in the next 4-5 days, um ... it's going to get a bit chilly inside here ...

Neil

Looks like option 2 then Neil, it's not as difficult as it seems.

Good moving !!:lol::lol: