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Jun 10, 2021 15:51:51   #
chuckla Loc: Kennesaw, GA USA
 
Back before I started importing images in folders representing a whole trip, I was importing them as folders named by date. I now find I want to have visibility by trip folder name, but can't figure out how to create a folder that will show up in LRC. To illustrate, in the attached screen shot the images taken 9/28/2014 through 10/03/2014 are stored in the operating system in a folder named "Yellowstone," but I imported them to LRC as dated folders. I'd like to create a folder called Yellowstone in LRC that contains these dated folders as sub-folders, like the ones in the screen shot called "2016 Arches" or "2016 Color at the Cabin," each of which contains several dated folders of images.

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Jun 10, 2021 16:10:56   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Folders are just the most basic level of organization on your harddrive. You'd be better served just hiding the entire folder display from your LR desktop.

Instead, begin to display and work and think about your images inside LR using 'collections'. This starts by going to your 'Navigator', ie the left-hand panel display in the Library, at the top of the section you've screen captured showing your folders. Right-click and de-select the folders and click the Collections.

Collections are like folders, but they're virtual and entirely inside LR. They also allow you to 'hold' a single image inside of 1 or many unique collections. You can create virtual copies of images and stick those in collections too; the intelligence of LR manages all the virtual copies (of copies of copies) back to that single original image file that resides in a single folder on disk.

Consider both Collection Sets and Collections. A Collection Set is a collection of collections. You can't change a collection to a collection set, but you can drag n drop collections into a collection set. So, you have full flexibility to organize your collections and to redo that organization if / when needed. If you delete a collection, the images remain as-is, including all the multiple collections where they exist, except for just the collection being deleted.

You might have a Collection Set = National Parks. Then, maybe collections that represent each park's images. There's no need for collection YNP2014 and YNP2016. Of course you can, but inside a collection Yellowstone NP, you can use the Metadata filters to filter by year, or combinations of attributes. As you continue to build your library (database) of your images, all the multiple visits to Yellowstone and similar parks are organized together.

You might have a completely different Collection Set of Wyoming, with collections for each city and / or Vacation-2014. Although this cross-filing organization at first seems redundant, it is completely virtual. You could even have a Collection Set of Vacations, with YNP2014 as a collection inside this set. There's a set-up effort, but once you have a content-based organization that fits your needs, you can think of finding your images in numerous ways, whichever fits your needs.

Beyond collections, it's critical to keyword your images. Keywords give quick search terms and additional filter options. Put everything in that makes sense, such as: city, state, park, people's names, restaurant name, rock formation, flower name, so forth. The EXIF data covers the date, camera and lens that you can filter on without needing to include these as keywords.

The 'hardest' part of getting started with keywords and collections is the rigor of doing this admin work. It has to become part of your workflow, maybe after initially importing the images. It takes the same time to keyword 1 image as to select 100 images together and to apply the same keyword to them all at the same time. I do the keywords even before culling as deleting the images with keywords costs me nothing.

Maybe you like flowers and you toss the flower images from all your various trips into that 'All flowers' collection too. You also should have flower (or flowers) as a keyword. The more distinct keywords you apply, the more different search and filtering options you empower within your LR database. With all your flowers in a common collection, images that span years and different cameras and different lenses, you can use a keyword filter to look at all the daisy images inside this collection, then maybe all the daisies from the same lens on the multiple cameras used. And so forth.

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Jun 10, 2021 16:28:08   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
As I look at your folders after talking up collections and keywords, above, I see you're already using folders where you could be using collections. To your original question, you just need to do the following in LR:

1. Select one of the YNP dates and rename to 2014 Yellowstone. You do this by right-clicking the folder name inside LR and use the rename command.

2. To move images from the other folders into the consolidated folder, click each folder to display all the image thumbnails in the Grid View. Use Ctrl+A to 'select all' the images.

3. With the images selected, return to the folder view and right-click the target folder. Select 'Move Selected Photos to this Folder' and let LR move the files.

4. When all the images are in the proper target folder and the source folders are empty, right-click each of the empty folders and remove them from LR's catalog. This doesn't delete them, it just takes them out of LR's catalog display.

To consolidate the 'date folders' rather than the images, just scroll-up to the 'parent' of these date-folders, right click and create your Yellowstone 2014 folder. Scroll back down to the dates and select and hold the folder with your mouse and drag the source folder into your new target. LR will prompt to confirm this folder move. Holding your Ctrl key, I think you can multi-select all the folders and drag them together into the target.

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Jun 11, 2021 07:31:40   #
chuckla Loc: Kennesaw, GA USA
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
As I look at your folders after talking up collections and keywords, above, I see you're already using folders where you could be using collections. …


Many thanks for the good info; you have solved my problem.

In fact I do make considerable use of collections, however I restrict them to the four and five star ratings from each shoot. The folders in question contain images that were not immediately discarded, but that don’t quite meet the four star rating. I occasionally go back and sort through them and find some worthy of rework, so I am loathe to simply delete them.

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Jun 11, 2021 07:51:03   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
chuckla wrote:
Many thanks for the good info; you have solved my problem.

In fact I do make considerable use of collections, however I restrict them to the four and five star ratings from each shoot. The folders in question contain images that were not immediately discarded, but that don’t quite meet the four star rating. I occasionally go back and sort through them and find some worthy of rework, so I am loathe to simply delete them.


We'll leave aggressive culling to another discussion.

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Jun 11, 2021 08:55:44   #
melueth Loc: Central Florida
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
Folders are just the most basic level of organization on your harddrive. You'd be better served just hiding the entire folder display from your LR desktop.

Instead, begin to display and work and think about your images inside LR using 'collections'. This starts by going to your 'Navigator', ie the left-hand panel display in the Library, at the top of the section you've screen captured showing your folders. Right-click and de-select the folders and click the Collections.

Collections are like folders, but they're virtual and entirely inside LR. They also allow you to 'hold' a single image inside of 1 or many unique collections. You can create virtual copies of images and stick those in collections too; the intelligence of LR manages all the virtual copies (of copies of copies) back to that single original image file that resides in a single folder on disk.

Consider both Collection Sets and Collections. A Collection Set is a collection of collections. You can't change a collection to a collection set, but you can drag n drop collections into a collection set. So, you have full flexibility to organize your collections and to redo that organization if / when needed. If you delete a collection, the images remain as-is, including all the multiple collections where they exist, except for just the collection being deleted.

You might have a Collection Set = National Parks. Then, maybe collections that represent each park's images. There's no need for collection YNP2014 and YNP2016. Of course you can, but inside a collection Yellowstone NP, you can use the Metadata filters to filter by year, or combinations of attributes. As you continue to build your library (database) of your images, all the multiple visits to Yellowstone and similar parks are organized together.

You might have a completely different Collection Set of Wyoming, with collections for each city and / or Vacation-2014. Although this cross-filing organization at first seems redundant, it is completely virtual. You could even have a Collection Set of Vacations, with YNP2014 as a collection inside this set. There's a set-up effort, but once you have a content-based organization that fits your needs, you can think of finding your images in numerous ways, whichever fits your needs.

Beyond collections, it's critical to keyword your images. Keywords give quick search terms and additional filter options. Put everything in that makes sense, such as: city, state, park, people's names, restaurant name, rock formation, flower name, so forth. The EXIF data covers the date, camera and lens that you can filter on without needing to include these as keywords.

The 'hardest' part of getting started with keywords and collections is the rigor of doing this admin work. It has to become part of your workflow, maybe after initially importing the images. It takes the same time to keyword 1 image as to select 100 images together and to apply the same keyword to them all at the same time. I do the keywords even before culling as deleting the images with keywords costs me nothing.

Maybe you like flowers and you toss the flower images from all your various trips into that 'All flowers' collection too. You also should have flower (or flowers) as a keyword. The more distinct keywords you apply, the more different search and filtering options you empower within your LR database. With all your flowers in a common collection, images that span years and different cameras and different lenses, you can use a keyword filter to look at all the daisy images inside this collection, then maybe all the daisies from the same lens on the multiple cameras used. And so forth.
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I will be bookmarking this thread for my summer project! Thank you CHG_CANON.

Marylea

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Jun 11, 2021 09:49:06   #
Dickwood33 Loc: Alberta, Canada
 
melueth wrote:
I will be bookmarking this thread for my summer project! Thank you CHG_CANON.

Marylea


I will as well. He is our Guru par excellance. Thank you.

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Jun 12, 2021 16:43:07   #
Alans844
 
Dickwood33 wrote:
I will as well. He is our Guru par excellance. Thank you.


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