Feature Request: Scan attached drives to automatically find and reconnect "missing" images

This is the kind of thing that computers are good for. I'm surprised that we've made it all the way to version 5 without this feature being added. It would be relatively easy.
Scan the catalog to make an internal list of all images that are "missing" (the raw file is not found where the catalog says it should be).
Scan the attached hard drives and make an internal list of all images on the system.
Compare the file names, sizes and dates of all of the found images and match them up.
You could provide a UI to confirm the reconnected images, or simply do it automatically. If desired, you could use EXIF data in the images to help confirm that the proper images are being connected. In fact, this step could be used as an "advanced" option to find images where the filename has changed.
Thanks for your consideration!
David Terry
(an original Raw Shooter and RawShooter/Pro user - which Adobe purchased and turned into Lightroom 1.0 - it's been a wonderful ride so far!)

Eliminating step 2 eliminates the security of an immediate backup. I don't want to ever tell a customer that I lost their images. The backup is done just as soon as possible.
Doing the processing on the SSD while having backed up to storage lets me get through thousands of images on a weekly basis (all things related to weddings as well as family portraits, seniors and the like).
The syncing process is automated (in fact, most of my processes are). It keeps *me* fast and efficient.
So why argue against a tool that can benefit not only me but others that have lost their images (for reasons having nothing to do with me or my workflow)? I am involved in many forums and have frequently helped people to find their lost images. I love that Lightroom easily reconnects the images. The only hard part is finding what happened to them (often they did a bonehead drag and drop of a folder and moved the images somewhere they didn't expect, sometimes they changed drive letters, sometimes they purposely move files and just don't realize the repercussions).
ALL of these people would benefit from adding this feature.
Why try to argue against it? I don't need a solution to my workflow. I love my workflow. I just think this feature would be beneficial to me and lots of other people.
Thanks for understanding.

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OK, Here Drive works reasonably well and stable with the feature set it has, but it still has a long way to go, just to be close to par with e.g. my Garmin Nuvi 350 bought 7 years ago, or even an old app like Mapopolis for Windows Mobile, also available 5-6 years ago (but now gone broke)... Is it possible to soon get at least get to a baseline that makes it usable also for longer international travel, e.g. going on summer vacation across Europe vs. just being useful for some local travel? This would require:
Search by categories of POIs rather than having to know it by name, e.g. find nearest hotels, gas station or place to eat (restaurants not even available today in the map overlays!) - sorted by distance
Find POIs along the route, e.g. within 2km of route rather than based on current location, again to know when you will pass e.g. the next gas station (super critical when driving on vacation across Europe)
At least 1 via point, so you can plan a stop over and still know your arrival at final destination.
Planning mode for routing by setting both a start and destination rather than all routes calculated must be from current position
Telling whether destination is on left or right side of road
That would bring Here Drive to at least the entry level of the cheapest dedicated navigation systems. Some additional features that would move it a little up the stack ranking includes:
Traffic information displayed and taken into account for route suggested (for a mobile unit with data traffic capability I would actually consider this a base requirement to just be minimally competitive with the cheapest navigation systems)
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I hope some of this can be prioritized - that would allow be to finally get to just ONE device for everything in the car - music, navigating and obviously calling.
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I could see myself start using it again if some of the features, incl. traffic information being part of routing decisions making it's way back. But for long haul navigation, everything needs to be there, and still the Nuvi 3490 wins hands down. And since that is now already paid for also with life time updates to maps and traffic info, it now requires a signficantly BETTER navigation app to bring me back.
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Feature Request: Standard Keyboard Navigation in Media Browser and Project Panel

It's been a while since I've had time to submit a feature request. I've wanted to see this one for a while. If you agree, please submit your own feature request here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish/
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These functions exist in both Windows Explorer as well as most modern Web browsers. When browsing files and Project folders, it's what I've come to expect. It's muscle memory, if not intuitive. I realize that many of these keyboard commands are already in use in other windows/panels of the application, therefore, these commands should be Panel-specific (i.e. ALT+LEFT works differently in the Media Browser and Project Panel than it does on the Timeline/Sequence). And as always, when making such changes (i.e. changing the behavior of ENTER to F2), this set of keys should be highly configurable based on preference:
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The most common habit I find myself doing in the Media Browser is clicking the BACK button on my mouse—only to realize, yet again, it doesn't work that way in PPr.
The most common habit I find myself doing in the Project Panel is pressing F2 to rename a folder/bin. Of course that doesn't work. And when I've renamed it, I press ENTER to save the name, but that only moves me to the next folder ready to rename it, too. I also find, out of habit, I try to navigate the bins using the arrow keys and then open the bin/folder using ENTER. Instead, my bin is asking for a new name and I hit ESC to avoid renaming it—now THERE's a shortcut that works the way it should.
I realize this feature may be controversial to some, since it's not the way we're used to doing things in PPr. However, I'm sure there are just as many out there, like me, who are confounded as to why PPr has never worked with the "conventional" navigation shortcuts found throughout the rest of the operating system, be it Windows or Mac.
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Nice ideas Jeff.
There is a site - Flash Catalyst Wishlist/Ideas where you can post these ideas so that the community can vote on them.

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> I know I can save my find and replace as a query but is
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> that can run a list of these find and replace commands
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>
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Book Module: Export as indd file and management
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They are just not ready to publish how - another sign of the quality processes at Adobe.
But you do not send from the book module.
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:13:59 -0400, E Michael Brandt
<[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Site | Check Links
>>
>> then look at orphaned files in the results panel
>
>Careful though. For example if you call some images via
the Open
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>
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>
>--
>
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~Malcolm~*...
~*

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