Allow export to preserve folder structure

When I export a folder of the library (via File/Export...) that has subfolders, I'd like Lightroom to put the converted files into a tree structure that matches the library's structure. Currently, it always puts all of the files into a single directory. I want to export a tree of small jpgs (for example) that matches the structure of the library which is full of RAW images. The current behaviour of flattening everything out into one directory is undesirable at best and problematic when there are multiple files by the same name scattered throughout the library.
Alternatively, a command-line utility to convert any image (as modified by the metadata database/XMP files) to another format would be sufficient for me to implement it on my own.
Thanks,
-john.

If I read that thread correctly, they are looking for a way to export the photos into the same directory as the source photos (or a subdir of it). That would cause problems for me because I like to sync my directories and I don't want my exported photos showing up in Lightroom.
I want a completely different directory to be created but with the same structure as the source. For example, export the following files (which are in the Lightshop library):
d:\raw\2006\2006_12\img_0001.cr2
d:\raw\2006\2006_12\big_event\img_0001.cr2
d:\raw\2007\2007_01\img_0001.cr2
d:\raw\2007\2007_02\img_0001.cr2
to the directories:
d:\jpg\2006\2006_12\img_0001.jpg
d:\jpg\2006\2006_12\big_event\img_0001.jpg
d:\jpg\2007\2007_01\img_0001.jpg
d:\jpg\2007\2007_02\img_0001.jpg
-john.

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Arthur,
I have not come across any applescript and I did just search again.
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i downloaded it and tried it out to see if it would be a faster way to get your year albums exported. It is really quite fast.
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Your albums will quickly be displayed in the left column.
Make a new folder on your desktop and label it albums.
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Exporting photos preserving directory structure...

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Any help apreciated.
Thanks,
Eric

Is it possible to export many Events / Albums, and have iPhoto export the photos while creating a sub-folder for each Event / Album being exported ?
No it’s not. You’ll need to export Album by album, Event by Event.
However if you want to grab large numbers of your stuff, you can always go into the iPhoto folder structure and grab photos and folders directly. If the organization makes sense to you, then it should be straight forward to identify which folders are the ones you need to copy to another drive, optical disk, etc.
Patrick
Apart from the considerable risk of damaging the Library, this simply won’t work.
You will need to choose between Original and Modified files - or else spend some considerable time comparing versions to decide which is the current version
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As always the Standard Warning: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
Regards
TD

Preserving Folder Structure When Exporting

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Exporting folder structure

Hi all,
I'm a newbie to Adobe Lightroom. I have been playing with it and love it. However, I have one concern. I notice that changes you make in Lightroom are not applied to the original file, which has its obvious advantages. I also noticed that export will only move pictures into a single flat folder, i.e. there doesn't seem to be a way to tell it to export into a folder structure resembling the original one.
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Is there a way around this?
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Brett,
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Ann: LR2/TreeExporter - Export your images while preserving the folder structure

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Hi,
Unfortunately the SDK doesn't offer access to this
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Hi! I salute you all!
First of all I want to excuse my english (it's not my native language)!
In 2014 we are dealing with thousands of files (video, audio, etc.), because of the present powerful technology, still... we are missing very important and useful parts for doing our jobs properly and very quickly!
In this case is Adobe Audition too, in my oppinion!
Adobe Audition is a great program, which help us to edit in many ways our audio files, but... unfortunatelly has major missing parts, which would be nice to be implemented as soon as possible!
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4. Auto Shut Down Computer (when all the tasks/jobs are done, we should be able to auto close the program and auto shut down our desktop/laptop as well)
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Have a nice day!
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Hi,
I have over 300gb of photos on my MBP. I need to export the photos onto an external Hard Drive and keep the existing folder structure. How can this be done?
My source for the Aperture library is iPhoto. I know that I can 'show package contents' from right clicking the iPhoto library, but this only displays the masters. I need the versions as I have done many edits on the majority of photos. I am fine with having the photos separated out by date - renaming the folder isn't a problem. I just don't want to have to sort through ALL of my photos and place them into different folders.
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Thanks for the information everyone! I apologize if I'm not being clear.
Here are a few call outs:
1. I have my aperture library and iPhoto synced (the source of all my photos is iPhoto. I exclusively use Aperture for photo editing however).
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Folder 1a: Aperture "Folder" 1
Folder 1ai: Aperture "Project" 1
Folder 1aii: Aperture "Project" 2
Folder 1b: Aperture "Folder" 2
Folder 1bi: Aperture "Project" 1
Folder 1bii: Aperture "Project" 2
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Desired end result
-Be able to quickly reference/view the versions of my pictures on any mac through my external HD (Versions)
-Be able to choose what photos to import based upon my existing 'folders' and 'projects' into my next computer (Versions and Masters)
-Have a full backup of my Aperture Library
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Hi there,
I downloaded LR1.1 this morning and hoped to see a long waiting and missing feature, but it seems that it is already lacking.
My pictures are stored in folders like \2007\2007_05_02_Vacation and I want to export my pictures keeping the structure. It seems to me that I cannot specify a path separator (\) in the export dialog and therefore all exported images are stored in a "flat" folder.
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Frank

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If you want to copy all of your photos to a Windows machine and have them in folders representing the iPhoto Events the were in quickly and easily just do the following:
1 - open the library with the Finder as shown in this screenshot:
2 - COPY the Originals/Masters folder to the Desktop.
3 - copy the Originals/Masters folder to the Windows machine.
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With iPhoto 7 (08) and earlier the Event folders in the Originals folder will have the same title as the Event has in the library.
This method would be quicker but not provide the additional metadata you might have added in iPhoto like keywords, titles, descriptions that exporting out of iPhoto with Format=JPEG and the checkboxes selected to include keywords, titles, places, etc, checked.
OT

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When a folder in the library contains subfolders, and LR is set to show files in subfolders, when the parent folder is selected, and all pictures are exported, they all end directly in the export folder. It would be great to have an option to recreate the folder structure, to maintain the original classification without having to export each subfolder separately.

I would like to see the tree structure be available for every export type, maybe as a "filter" stage: i.e. publisher + exports.
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