It's very important that you look carefully at what Lightroom's import dialog is telling you. Look at http://homepage.mac.com/godders/lr-import.jpg ...
- On the left panel, you see the source location. Note the light band highlighting "Imported on March 12, 2011" which ends with a pointer to the content window '>' ... this is telling you what you've selected for Lightroom to import. - At the top, notice that "Copy" is highlighted ... LR will import these files and make a copy of them to a destination for you. - On the right, notice the big pointer, another ">" arrow, indicating the 'Desktop' folder as the destination. Notice also that I've elected to move them organized "by date" using the date format "yyyymmdd", and that "into subfolder" is NOT checked. This means that LR will create a dated subfolder and put the 80 image files into it under Desktop. If I check the "Into Subfolder" option and gave it a name for a new subfolder, it would create the new subfolder under Desktop and THEN create new data-named subfolders under that. If you change the organize mode, it will change how it creates the destination you want to put them. For my normal import, I have the organize by date with this date format selected. Into subfolder is un-checked. I select the year as the top level folder, Lightroom creates the day by day subfolders under that year as desired with every import. On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I've asked this question before, but can't find the responses. The > top level of my image files is by year. Below that are folders by date with a > descriptive phrase appended. When I import LR creates *another* directory for > the year and then imports images by dates into this folder. When the import > is finished I then have to move the folders created in the import out of this > folder into *my* folder for the year. > > Why is LR doing this? How can I get it to stop, i.e., to just import by date > into the folder I indicate without creating another folder? > > Thanks > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.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.
