FYI. Just a follow up. I have a hard disk dedicated to photos, and a master directory on that disk, labeled My Pictures (an XP thing). All other pictures are in subdirectories to that and some of those directories have subdirectories as well.
I finally managed to solve my problem by importing the top directory, My Pictures. I imported into my existing Lightroom library. Now all my master directories and subdirectories show in Lightroom's library. Since I had already imported most of the subdirectories, it only took about 20-30 minutes, I imagine starting from scratch it might take an hour to an hour and a half. In the XP version of Lightroom how do to this is rather non-obvious. Because normally it looks like it won't let you import a directory that only contains subdirectories but no photos, as the import dialog will show "Supported files" in the file type and a directory without picture has no supported files. However, there is another button below the import button that says "Choose Selected" that only is enabled when the chosen import IS a directory without pictures. So highlighting a directory will enable that button and then one can import a directory without pictures. I am not totally positive that button was there in version 1.0. And probably everyone using Lightroom, XP version, knew this. But just in case someone read this thread and didn't, that is how it works. Later, Marnie :-) --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
