Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

I use Bridge instead of lightroom, but I have mine organized almost that way. I let Bridge do the import & it automagically creates folders by date and sorts the images into them. All I usually have to do is add a descriptor to the folder name. "MMDD" becomes "MMDD-descriptor". I don't

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 11, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > > On 11 Nov 2015, at 12:50, Malcolm Smith wrote: >> >> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> Sorry if this doesn't answer your questions directly. Unraveling a >>> slightly mucked up Lightroom catalog

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

For me, subject-based folder organization is a nuisance at best and a major pain at worst. I still have several handfuls of folders from my first Optio, with names like Fall Colors or Ste Marteen. Which would be fine if that fall of 2003 was the only time I ever shot fall colors, or if the

RE: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Sorry if this doesn't answer your questions directly. Unraveling a > slightly mucked up Lightroom catalog database takes time and > persistence. You need to look at a lot of things, one at a time, to > determine what the state of a particular catalog is and what files it

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 11, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: > > It's so important to get Lightroom to set the catalogue database right from > the start. I thought I understood that, and I also thought that at least the > images I had from DSLRs were in a logical order. > >

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > The catalog database points to the image files in the file system, not the > other way around. You open a catalog/database … from there you see what image > files it points to and what folder it records them as

RE: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

Bob W wrote: > I don't mean to imply that your process is 2nd-rate - I apologise if it > seemed like that to you, just that hierarchical folders per se are not > usually the best way of organising most things on a computer, whether > it's photos or just general files. We don't always have any

RE: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

Eric Weir wrote: > Thanks, Malcolm. As I said in my previous post, I’ve never done > anything with my catalog. The notion of an “organized” catalog > intrigues me. Again, I have only one. Every image I’ve ever taken has > been just dumped into it. There’s no structure whatsoever. Curious > about

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

On 11 Nov 2015, at 18:46, Malcolm Smith wrote: > > [...] > > Lastly, I don't import directly into Lightroom. Because I share the computer, > it drives my wife nuts that photos automatically want to go in via Lightroom > and some are hers and that's not what she wants.

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

On 11 Nov 2015, at 12:50, Malcolm Smith wrote: > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> Sorry if this doesn't answer your questions directly. Unraveling a >> slightly mucked up Lightroom catalog database takes time and >> persistence. You need to look at a lot of things, one at

RE: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

Bob W wrote: > My view, which I implemented from v0.n beta of LR because it is a sound general principle, is that you should not confuse the physical organisation (i.e. on the disk) and > the logical organisation, in the catalogue. Therefore I have a completely flat unstructured set of

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On 11 Nov 2015, at 23:02, Malcolm Smith wrote: > > [...] I am far more at > home with a fountain pen and paper. I accept that to you how I am doing this > is second rate, but I'm OK with that because I can make this work for me. I don't mean to imply that your process

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 9, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > I am uncertain at this point which of the folders in LR points to the actual > files, i.e., the files on the reformatted and renamed drive from which they > were imported. There are indications in favor of both. > >

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 7:26 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> On Nov 9, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> I am uncertain at this point which of the folders in LR points to the actual >> files, i.e., the files on the reformatted and renamed drive from

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 8, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > I see questions like this constantly. > > 1- understand how Lightroom interacts with the file system BEFORE you do > something and then have to figure out to fix it. > > 2- when you don't understand something, ask

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 9, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > I am puzzled as to why right-clicking on the folder doesn’t present the > option of updating the folder location. Oops! Just discovered that it does. I was clicking at the level above the folder—on the LR folder, if you

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

Eric, from my own experience, I'd toss the drive that failed. It probably wasn't a software hiccup that caused the failure. The mechanical failure will recur--it's only a question of when. I lost a significant portion of my catalog on one computer under similar circumstances. I was able to recover

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 8, 2015, at 11:10 AM, David Parsons wrote: > > In the Library module, right click on the folder, and select Remove. > It will tell you that the folder will be removed from Lightroom, but > the files will remain on the disk. > > If you are moving things around

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

I see questions like this constantly. 1- understand how Lightroom interacts with the file system BEFORE you do something and then have to figure out to fix it. 2- when you don't understand something, ask questions BEFORE you try things. 3- when you're learning stuff, make a small, temporary

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

> On Nov 8, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Yolanda Rowe wrote: > > Eric, from my own experience, I'd toss the drive that failed. It > probably wasn't a software hiccup that caused the failure. The > mechanical failure will recur--it's only a question of when. I lost a > significant portion

Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

A couple weeks ago I moved my photo database to a different drive. When I connected to the drive in Lightroom it wanted to import the photos again. Now I have two folders in Lightroom navigator, only one of which is being used. Now I have the database on still another drive. (The last move for

Re: Deleting folders from Lightroom navigator

In the Library module, right click on the folder, and select Remove. It will tell you that the folder will be removed from Lightroom, but the files will remain on the disk. If you are moving things around outside of Lightroom, don't keep importing them, update the folder locations in Lightroom by