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lisy78 wrote:
Scott Clark wrote:
I've got a similar question...is there a way to tell LR to find a whole bunch of folders on a new drive that I've migrated a ton of stuff to? The file structure is exactly the same. I don't want to click and find every single one since it would take forever..seems like there should be an easier way when all that's changed is the drive letter...
Scott,
another poster hinted at the answer but just in case you don't have the whole tree showing in Lightroom... keep in mind that you can right-click a folder and choose "show parent" if you do this all the folderst aht are siblings of this one will bunch up under the parent and it will indeed be much easier to relocate a bunch of folders.
Hmmm...so, suppose my file structure looks like this: G:/photo_archive/2006/5_16_06_some_bunch_of_images/. I usually import only one folder at a time into LR, so the parent directory isn't immediately visible...all it will usually show in the drive box is "5_16_06_some_buch_of_images". It's always been easy to find things in the folders that way if I need to. Can I still tell LR to look up the directory tree and find the other folders there? If I could tell it to scan the entire photo_archive folder it would make life a whole lot simpler... Well, it would make that part of my life simpler. Don't think it will help my kids sleep better, or make my job any easier .
Maybe I should have been importing from higher up the directory tree...say at the year level? You can always tell it to ignore duplicates, which there would be a bazillion of after a while...that way when I migrate all my stuff to a new array I would only have to tell it where to find the yearly folders to reconstruct it in the catalog... Not that this stuff gets moved around all that much, but sooner or later it's probably going to happen again.
Hate to have to do that at this point though...I'd almost rather stab myself in the head than enter 20K images back into my catalog...
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