Organizing folders

[kevinm]

I'm looking for help with 2 issues:

1. I've imported a series of folders with the following names: Macros '4, Macros '5, Macros '6, Macros '7. What I now want to do is, from within LR, place all of these into a folder called Macros. I can't figure out how to do this. When I click on the + icon, I always get a new folder as a subfolder of another one, which is not what I want - and if I do this, I'm not able to change the hierarchy.

2. Similarly to the above, I imported a series of folders that were on my desktop and I imported them while referencing them in their current location. From LR, how do I move these so that they are at the same hierarchy level as all of my other folders i.e. in the Pictures folder?

Thanks in advance as always.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Does this help Kevin? http://photoshopservices.wordpress.com/2''7/1'/16/showing-the-folder-hierarchy/

 

[kevinm]

Thanks Victoria; this looks very promising! But a couple of supplemental questions first. First, I will need to go right up to Desktop level, as that's where some of the folders are. After I do this and have moved the folders from within LR, can I change the view such that all I see is what's in my Pictures folder i.e. how do I modify the view after it has served it's purpose?

 

[Kiwigeoff]

Thanks Victoria; this looks very promising! But a couple of supplemental questions first. First, I will need to go right up to Desktop level, as that's where some of the folders are. After I do this and have moved the folders from within LR, can I change the view such that all I see is what's in my Pictures folder i.e. how do I modify the view after it has served it's purpose?

Just move them into the Pictures folder in LR.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Or if you want to get rid of higher level folders, just select them and hit delete - it should come up with a box asking whether you want to promote the subfolders - which you do!

Do a backup just before you do this though, save anything going dreadfully wrong!