ThreePeak
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- Lightroom Experience
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Full disclosure: I am fairly advanced in many of the adobe CC programs, with Photoshop cc 2015 being by far my comfort zone. For whatever reason, I never spent too much time in lightroom until recently. My problem is this: 1) Trying to track down all my personal pictures. I have about 6 HDD/partitions and 15 years worth of personal pictures spread EVERYWHERE. (yes i know, i'll cane myself later for the sin lol) This is a result of not using a central organization feature and placing imported pictures over the years in individual folders on different drives to avoid having to try and hunt through a giant folder every time I need to look for something. Then, factor in upgrading computers and laptops and migrating HDD content over etc... etc... Now I'm left with about 15 terabytes of data and pictures spread out everywhere (thankfully, at least a healthy chunk actually is in picture folders)
So, simple right? Do an image search or run the lightroom import on everything right? Yeah, not so much. Problem is, I'm already in a bad place with the sheer amount of spread on all the pictures and memories, not to mention quantity. But when I do start said search, I end up pulling EVERY image on the damn HDD's!!! I'm talking icons, album covers, every graphic or image or piece or media that every piece of software has etc.... This turns an already nasty task into a nightmare. I can't seem to find a way to set criteria for Lightroom to import. As in, I can't see anything to stop it from showing everything based on any kind of filter (ex: only images over ___kb's, No *.ico etc...) On top of that, my images can run the gamut in size and I do have some old memories that are very small file sizes, so I don't know what I would set as the cut off without loosing content, even if I could figure out how to do so. I'm not entirely sure how to exclude individual folders from scanning within a directory in lightroom. Right click context does give a checkmark to exclude/include subfolders, but this applies to ALL. If I could somehow setup the best filter ever that excluded all the crap and pulled only the desired pictures and their directories, I'm not certain how I could apply that search parameter to lightroom.
Apologies for the long and whiny first post. This issue has been driving me CRAZY and i'm at my wits end. I'm a father of two and the thought of loosing even a single memory that will never be retrievable and has no backup is terrible to me.
I need veteran advice on how to bring this all back inwards
So, simple right? Do an image search or run the lightroom import on everything right? Yeah, not so much. Problem is, I'm already in a bad place with the sheer amount of spread on all the pictures and memories, not to mention quantity. But when I do start said search, I end up pulling EVERY image on the damn HDD's!!! I'm talking icons, album covers, every graphic or image or piece or media that every piece of software has etc.... This turns an already nasty task into a nightmare. I can't seem to find a way to set criteria for Lightroom to import. As in, I can't see anything to stop it from showing everything based on any kind of filter (ex: only images over ___kb's, No *.ico etc...) On top of that, my images can run the gamut in size and I do have some old memories that are very small file sizes, so I don't know what I would set as the cut off without loosing content, even if I could figure out how to do so. I'm not entirely sure how to exclude individual folders from scanning within a directory in lightroom. Right click context does give a checkmark to exclude/include subfolders, but this applies to ALL. If I could somehow setup the best filter ever that excluded all the crap and pulled only the desired pictures and their directories, I'm not certain how I could apply that search parameter to lightroom.
Apologies for the long and whiny first post. This issue has been driving me CRAZY and i'm at my wits end. I'm a father of two and the thought of loosing even a single memory that will never be retrievable and has no backup is terrible to me.
I need veteran advice on how to bring this all back inwards