Lightroom Subscription
Apr 9, 2017 12:21:58 #
I have the Lightroom Subscription and tried to move photos from computer hard drive to Lightroom. Most came over to Lightroom with subfolders BUT not all subfolders made it. Any thoughts?
Apr 9, 2017 12:31:06 #
George,
I'm not sure from your question whether or not that you understand that you are not actually moving the image files from your hard drive to Lightroom. Lightroom is simply a catalog system and the images are still on your hard drive in the location that they were previous to your action. Think of Lightroom as the old fashioned Card File in a library. It tells where the books are and some information about them but the books are still in the stacks where they were placed by the librarian (you).
Bob
I'm not sure from your question whether or not that you understand that you are not actually moving the image files from your hard drive to Lightroom. Lightroom is simply a catalog system and the images are still on your hard drive in the location that they were previous to your action. Think of Lightroom as the old fashioned Card File in a library. It tells where the books are and some information about them but the books are still in the stacks where they were placed by the librarian (you).
Bob
Apr 9, 2017 20:12:13 #
Apr 10, 2017 07:09:01 #
George3rd wrote:
I have the Lightroom Subscription and tried to move photos from computer hard drive to Lightroom. Most came over to Lightroom with subfolders BUT not all subfolders made it. Any thoughts?
Need more information screen shot would be useful
Apr 10, 2017 07:45:36 #
George3rd wrote:
I have the Lightroom Subscription and tried to move photos from computer hard drive to Lightroom. Most came over to Lightroom with subfolders BUT not all subfolders made it. Any thoughts?
Your question is a bit vague. try this video and see if the light bulb goes off. In general, make youtube your friend for LR usage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0W8rZOoWgI
Apr 10, 2017 09:08:40 #
bettis1 wrote:
I'm not sure from your question whether or not that you understand that you are not actually moving the image files from your hard drive to Lightroom. Lightroom is simply a catalog system...
I'm not sure from your question whether or not that you understand that you are not actually moving the image files from your hard drive to Lightroom. Lightroom is simply a catalog system...
George,
Read and memorize what Bob said. Try not to think or say "into," "move over"... Think instead "catalog".
Also think of operations selected under File Handling, File Renaming... as happening before LR adds the files to it's catalog.
If your question is just LR dosen't include sub folders then there may be an include subfolders box some in the select process. I don't come across that in my workflow. Does every thing you want show up checked before you click Import?
Apr 10, 2017 14:50:06 #
George3rd wrote:
I have the Lightroom Subscription and tried to move photos from computer hard drive to Lightroom. Most came over to Lightroom with subfolders BUT not all subfolders made it. Any thoughts?
You don't MOVE them. You ADD them to the catalog. If you move them, they MOVE to the location you told them to MOVE to. So you must be a little confident if your computer skills to know what you're doing to d this. But if the pictures were already in a good place on your computer you should have just added them to the catalog. You don't put pictures into LR. You catalog them. The catalog is simply a database that has many advanced features to keep track of them, organize them, and edit them always keeping track of those edits.
Apr 10, 2017 16:12:36 #
pithydoug wrote:
Your question is a bit vague. try this video and see if the light bulb goes off. In general, make youtube your friend for LR usage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0W8rZOoWgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0W8rZOoWgI
This is EXCELLENT. The L R Catalog for me has been a mysterious "I know there'e a Pony inside there, somewhere." Anthony has just switched on the light bulb for me.
Thanks, Pithy
Apr 10, 2017 17:48:29 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
B&H has some good vids on you tube ( cleaning up your mess in Lightroom & order from chaos ).
They help me understand the cataloging process a lot. I watched quite a few vids before installing the software based on some of the post I have read here.
Good luck.
They help me understand the cataloging process a lot. I watched quite a few vids before installing the software based on some of the post I have read here.
Good luck.
Apr 10, 2017 20:24:01 #
If you have missing photos in the catalog folders they should have a ? next to the folder name in the Library module. Also any missing photo when viewed in the library as a thumbnail photo should have an ! on it. You can relink these missing folders and photos between the catalog and the location on your disk where they really reside.
Best,
Todd Ferguson
Best,
Todd Ferguson
Apr 10, 2017 20:24:42 #
Apr 10, 2017 23:42:48 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
Also if your folders have a down arrow next to it , try clicking on it. It might show the subs.
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