- Joined
- Oct 9, 2021
- Messages
- 62
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 11.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Hi--
Happy holidays, everyone!
I used to use Downloader Pro/Breezebrowser Pro for organizing images, and have recently switched to LRC. My DLPro/BBPro workflow was to import into YYMMDD file folders inside a year folder called __YYDDLPro. I maintained that file structure when I brought those images in LRC.
There were a number of images that were not in the DLPro/BBPro folder structure. I imported these images into folders by date, but those files are in folders called YYYYMMDD. Thus, for photos from the ides of March in 2005, I have a folder called __05DLPro with subfolders called, for example, 050315, and another folder for 2005 called 2005 with subfolders called 20050315.
To rectify this, I have been moving all files for a given date into a single folder (the 20050315 one, for example). I have been doing this refiling manually (drag/drop ad nauseum) and it's taking forever, but just realized that there may be a simpler way. Would this work:
1. Remove a year folder from the old org system (DLPro/BBPro) using right-click and Remove.
2. Reimport via LR including images in all subfolders, and tell LR to sort by date so that each image would go into a YYYYMMDD folder (eg 20040315).
Will this work? Will I lose any keywords that I've added?
Thanks!
Nancy
Happy holidays, everyone!
I used to use Downloader Pro/Breezebrowser Pro for organizing images, and have recently switched to LRC. My DLPro/BBPro workflow was to import into YYMMDD file folders inside a year folder called __YYDDLPro. I maintained that file structure when I brought those images in LRC.
There were a number of images that were not in the DLPro/BBPro folder structure. I imported these images into folders by date, but those files are in folders called YYYYMMDD. Thus, for photos from the ides of March in 2005, I have a folder called __05DLPro with subfolders called, for example, 050315, and another folder for 2005 called 2005 with subfolders called 20050315.
To rectify this, I have been moving all files for a given date into a single folder (the 20050315 one, for example). I have been doing this refiling manually (drag/drop ad nauseum) and it's taking forever, but just realized that there may be a simpler way. Would this work:
1. Remove a year folder from the old org system (DLPro/BBPro) using right-click and Remove.
2. Reimport via LR including images in all subfolders, and tell LR to sort by date so that each image would go into a YYYYMMDD folder (eg 20040315).
Will this work? Will I lose any keywords that I've added?
Thanks!
Nancy