Comments on: Video Tip - Moving Existing Folders

By: Darrin

Darrin — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:58:21 +0000

Matt, what if there are some folders that I have not added to Lightroom, but they are in my main Photos folder; will those ones be moved if I move the folder from within Lightroom? Also, if not, is there a way to quickly have Lightroom add folders from a main folder without importing duplicate folders?

Thanks

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:25:27 +0000

Hello Matt! Greetings from Nicaragua! Thanks so much for your hard work, I love your website, podcasts, books, everything

I’ve looked around to find a solution to my problem, but haven’t found anything. Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough. I’m sure I’m not the only one with this question: What is the best or most efficient way to move and/or copy photos I’ve already developed between catalogs?

Thanks!
Gil

By: Evelyn L.

Evelyn L. — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:54:10 +0000

Hello Matt! Your presentation of moving folders in lightroom was so very helpful! In a couple of hours time I had FINALLY organized almost 4,000 photos into one place on my computer in one main folder with numerous subfolders. Now finding photos is simple and quick. Thank you!

After everything was organized I realized that a few pictures were in the wrong folders, probably a result of previous attempts to click and drag and dropping them in the wrong place by accident. I can’t seem to figure out how to move individual photos from one folder to another within Lightroom. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Evelyn

By: Øyvind

Øyvind — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:47:16 +0000

Hi.
I love these videos, but there is one problem I have that I have’nt found the solution for yet. I’m now running out of disc space and therefore want to move my entire picture collection to a new hard drive. How do I do this without having to import all the pictures again?

Thanks!

Øyvind

By: Edgar Walther

Edgar Walther — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:18:38 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the video’s regarding the folder structure (and for all the other video’s - I really appreciate it!).

After moving folder 2007-02-17 into your top level folder Photos, the next step would very likely be to rename that folder to Jim Photoshoot (or whatever the boy’s name is). How do you do that from Lightroom? That is something I am struggeling with and it would complete the folder structure story.

Thanks!

Edgar

By: Keith Childs

Keith Childs — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:34:39 +0000

Matt- ignore my earlier question on file renaming. Of course it’s dead easy. Library- Rename Photos. Seek and ye shall find…

By: Kubiksovs

Kubiksovs — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:22:46 +0000

I have the same problem that Jim Hayes has, please, please fix it in the next release.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:48:46 +0000

Hi Matt

I really enjoy your videos on Lightroom.
Maybe I have missed it, but it seems that there is still missing a rather important feature when it comes to folders.
You get a new computer.
And the photos resides on another drive (say now it is G. and not F.)
And maybe you change the folder structure for your pictures.

How do you do that ?

Frede Hansen

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:12:41 +0000

Hi Matt, So I am a little confused, my importing to my pictures/photos is working like a charm, I picked “Stock” as my folder for this part of my import however my link in lightroom now shows Stock at C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\Photos how do I make the change without messing everything up to just read Photos like in your demo. Thank you, Linda

By: Jim Hayes

Jim Hayes — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:28:17 +0000

Matt,
Thanks for taking the time to do your many different PS and Lightroom tutorials.
Folders: unfortunately when I began using Lightroom I did not set up a Master Folder, but just subject folders. Now if I want to move a folder or especially add a folder it is impossible unless I do it under an existing folder. I hope they correct this problem in future updates.
Jim H.