Jimmsp
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2011
- Messages
- 1,299
- Location
- Green Valley, Arizona, USA
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- LR Classic V7.x
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I just returned from a long trip where I took a lot of photos. I imported them into LR Classic V7 on my laptop and post processed them. They were all on my C drive
When I returned home, I moved the LR catalog back to my desktop (a internal different SSD drive) and the photos into one "Travel" photo on the C drive inside of my upper level folder called "Work in Progress".
After "finding" the Travel folder in LR - all was good. All the photos were in LR and on my desktop.
Then I began to reorganize, moving all of the new folders in "Work in Progress" into older upper level folders on an internal HD. I used LR to do this by just the convenient clicking and dragging of folders containing the photos.
When I was done - all was still well and good as far as LR was concerned. This was 3 weeks ago before the v8 update.
However, today as I was doing some routine computer maintenance, I noticed (using File Explorer) that most of the folders and photos that I thought I had moved from the SSD drive to the internal HD were still on the SSD.
Basically I had done a "copy" with the files, not a "move" .
I don't believe that this had happened to me before when moving files to another drive.
All of these were lower level subfolders, and I don't know if that made a difference.
Has anyone else seen this behavior when moving files between drives using the LR "drag and drop" ?
When I returned home, I moved the LR catalog back to my desktop (a internal different SSD drive) and the photos into one "Travel" photo on the C drive inside of my upper level folder called "Work in Progress".
After "finding" the Travel folder in LR - all was good. All the photos were in LR and on my desktop.
Then I began to reorganize, moving all of the new folders in "Work in Progress" into older upper level folders on an internal HD. I used LR to do this by just the convenient clicking and dragging of folders containing the photos.
When I was done - all was still well and good as far as LR was concerned. This was 3 weeks ago before the v8 update.
However, today as I was doing some routine computer maintenance, I noticed (using File Explorer) that most of the folders and photos that I thought I had moved from the SSD drive to the internal HD were still on the SSD.
Basically I had done a "copy" with the files, not a "move" .
I don't believe that this had happened to me before when moving files to another drive.
All of these were lower level subfolders, and I don't know if that made a difference.
Has anyone else seen this behavior when moving files between drives using the LR "drag and drop" ?