Folders in LR3

The folders I se in LR3 do not reflect the fodlers on my hard drive. I have used Add Parent Folder which has helped a little but any folders beneath the last one on my list are not visible. For example - I have a folder called Lessons and I have 6 subfolders under that called Lesson1, Lesson2 etc. I csn see the Lessons 1, 2 and 3 folders but cannot see Lessons 4, 5 and 6 and can see no way to display them. Can anyone help?
Many thanks

kingboo54 wrote:
I am just learning LR (as you may have guessed!) and this is clearly part of my learning curve! Thank you - I now understand how the Import works.
Glad to help. If you haven't already seen the Adobe tutorials, you might want to check this out.
http://tv.adobe.com/show/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-4/

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Moving multiple folders in LR3

It seems like it's still not possible to move more than one folder at a time in LR3. I can't believe this hasn't been fixed - isn't this a normal, regular thing to do?
I import all my photos into date subdirectories of a folder called import. When I finally get round to keywording them and copying them to DVD, I then move the folder into the appropriate point in my pictures hierarchy e.g. portraits get moved under the portrait folder, Yorkshire pictures go under the yorkshire folder etc. If I have a number of folders that I want to move to the same folder I have to move them one at a time. Even if I select more than one, it only actually moves one. It's a right pain.
Perhaps there's a better way to organise my workflow to get round this, but I don't understand why it is so difficult.

imajez wrote:
b_gossweiler wrote:
But LR is able to remove photos from your catalog, if they're not existant in the folder anymore.
Removing folders from LR that do not exist anymore, is not exactly a problem. In fact, I want to LR to do that.
I'm not talking about removing folders, but photos !!
I think the opposite, synchronize is the safe thing to do as it cannot do anything to your files that has not already been done outside of LR . All synchronize does is update LR. It does not change anything, that hasn't already been changed.
The only time when it could be an issue is when you do not save to xmp out of LR and also alter files in Bridge as that is simply asking for trouble. But that way of working is wrong, not the syncing itself.
Not sure what you think syncing does, that makes it so dangerous.
OK, I'll give you a few scenarios where synchronize can do harm:
A) Without writing XMP:
Move or rename an photo and synch: All edits (development and metadata) are lost
Move a folder within a master folder and synch: All edits (development and metadata) are lost
B) With writing XMP:
Move or rename a photo and synch: Collection-, Flag-, Stack-Info, VCs are lost
Move a folder within Master and synch: ditto
Additionally, writing XMPs automatically is not known to be the most reliable function in LR, one reason for this being it writing asynchronously. I've had several instances where a status of "Metadata changed" was reported, although I have "Automatically write changes into XMP" set to yes.
I'm not saying that synchronize is a bad option as it stands, but you need to exactly know what you're doing if you want to avoid trouble. For that reason I think it's not a good general advice in a forum like this, where, among advanced users, also novices read what others recommend. 90% of all complaints I read in forums like this are about losing the connection to the folders/photos, and quite some of them losing their edits in the course of trying to solve the issue (e.g. re-import). What "Synchronize Folder" does on a renamed or moved image is nothing else than delete from catalog and re-import, and, as Paige uses to say all the time, "Don't ever re-import.", and rightly so!
MHO: If you don't want to stick with the organizational means that LR offers (keywords, collections, color-labels, ratings, ....) after you've originally imported (nothing against folder assignment and file renaming upon first import!), I think as a general rule one should stick with moving stuff around from within LR.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

Question mark on some of my folders in LR3 on a Mac. Right click does not result in anything... no drop down menu to fix the problem

I am trying to learn Lightroom 3 on my Mac. I mistakenly renamed some folders (not while in Lightroom) by adding a subject to the date. Lightroom could not find the photos in the folder and gave me an error message that "the file named ... is offline or missing" I then went back and changed the files to what they were originally named but still get the same error message. Scott Kelby's good recommends right clicking on the file and i'd have the option to 'find the missing folder'... Not happening. What can I do other than starting over?

I think you might have misinterpreted something in your reading. Try this:
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-thinks-my-photos-are-missing-how-do-i-ﬁx-it/
or this:
Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

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Having a problem moving images from Folder A to Folder B, When I highlight 6 photos and attempt to drag and drop all are moved EXCEPT the first photo in the group, then a white box pops us something like unable to move photo #1234. Close the shite box by clicking OK, then do the drag and drop with this same image it works. Is this a bug in LR 3, any other users experience this? Suggestions?
Thanks, Cynthia

Cynthia444 wrote:
I have wanted to wait until it's a final upgrade.
Cynthia,
Why don't you do so and just drag this one remaining image a second time in the meantime.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

Is there any way to make copies of the maser image in LR3?

Is there any way to make copies of the maser image in LR3?
I do a lot of sports and dance photography and I need a way to make multiple copies of an image to drag into different folders in LR3.
Example: One dancer may be on several teams and I need to make copies of the team photos to put in each dancers folder before I upload them to my E Commerce site so each dancer see's their team photo with their individual photos in the same folder online.
I know I can make virtual copies, but you cannot drag them to different folders as copies, it will move the virtual with the master.
If they would just let us hold ALT or any key while dragging to "copy" instead of "move", my problem would be solved.
For now I have to go into Windows, make copies ,then synch the folders again. Pain in the rear to do that.
Anyone have any experience here?
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ronchast

Ron,
I too need to make "Real Copies" of images and hate doing anything directly from the OS because of the chance that my LR catalog gets out of Sync with the actual images on the computer. So I make the copies inside LR with an export routine and then move the copies inside of LR with the normal drag and drop. Once the export preset is created it can be executed from the Library Grid by right-clicking on the image (or selected images) to make the copies. My settings are as follows in case you are interested:
This is the first time I have posted an image before and I am not sure if you will be able to read it or not. The contents from the export preset in the image above are as follows if that helps:
s = {
id = "3AF0E3D2-BC6A-4D53-A7BE-B7A6C4D673AC",
internalName = "Make Real File Copy",
title = "Real File Copy",
type = "Export",
value = {
collisionHandling = "overwrite",
exportFilters = {
exportServiceProvider = "com.adobe.ag.export.file",
exportServiceProviderTitle = "Hard Drive",
export_colorSpace = "sRGB",
export_destinationPathSuffix = "",
export_destinationType = "sourceFolder",
export_useSubfolder = false,
extensionCase = "lowercase",
format = "ORIGINAL",
includeVideoFiles = false,
initialSequenceNumber = 1,
jpeg_limitSize = 100,
jpeg_useLimitSize = false,
metadata_keywordOptions = "lightroomHierarchical",
minimizeEmbeddedMetadata = false,
outputSharpeningLevel = 2,
outputSharpeningMedia = "matte",
outputSharpeningOn = false,
reimportExportedPhoto = true,
reimport_stackWithOriginal = true,
reimport_stackWithOriginal_position = "below",
renamingTokensOn = true,
size_doConstrain = false,
size_resolution = 300,
size_resolutionUnits = "inch",
tokenCustomString = "RC",
tokens = "{{image_name}}_{{custom_token}}",
tokensArchivedToString2 = "{{image_name}}_{{custom_token}}",
useWatermark = false,
watermarking_id = "<simpleCopyrightWatermark>",
version = 0,
Let me know if you have any questions.
Jeff

LR3 Syncronize folder finds "missing" photos that are not missing

Having switched to LR3 I made some new catalogs and syncrnized some folders. LR3 kept find a ton of missing photos though and I was sure they were not missing. SO I clicked on the "show missing files" button and sure enough it just showed me hundreds of photos that were not actually missing. I checked them by right clicking on them and using the "show in finder" option to check that they were indeed still on my disk.
Whats happening ? It seems to do it every time and I have tried it with several folders. Every time it thought it found hundreds of missing photos.

Melissa,
I did not upgrade my catalog from LR2 to 3 , instead I started an entirely new catalog. I was hoping then to import some old LR2 catalogs into the new LR3 one but alas that plan has fallen foul of the import bug that effects importing catalogs with the same folders in them so I cant do that..... but thats all in another thread.
I think maybe I was not clear enough becuase it sounds like you didnt quite catch my point. My point is that the photos are not missing at all, they ares still clrearly displayed in the catalog and I can double click them and open them no problem. I do not have to locate them at all. They are still there. It is just lightroom saying they are not there when i sync a folder.
So to clarify, when i syncronize,it tells me that X number of files are missing. If I click the button to "show missing files" all the photos that it shows, are still there. It does not display them as missing, it displays them as normal. Now this would not reall be a problem except that the sync default is to remove missing files. So if you leave that option selected, LR removes a ton of files that were not missing!
Does that make it clearer, sorry i was not so clear the first time.

Made a Mistake with Lightroom 3.0, how to fix?

Hi,
Using Lightroom 3.0 on a Mac. Installed demo and converted the database from Lightroom 1.4 over to 3.0. Then I did something stupid. I imported some images into Lightroom 1.4. About 100 images, shot from 2-3 months ago. These are well baked into Lightroom 1.4, with no way to recall what they were (Previous import selection isnt useful now).
How do I get these images into Lightroom 3.0? I should have imported into both versions of Lightroom as I prepare to move from 1.4 to 3.0. However, These 100 images are buried in my Library and I'm not sure how to get them into Lightroom 3.0.
Thank you for your help.

How to convert my 1.4 database again? I only knew how to do it as Lightroom asked me right up front.
Open in LR3 and you'll be prompted to upgrade. You can find the location in LR1's catalog settings.
I have no idea what all 100 images are. They are spread over a 3 month period so are mixed in with all my other photos during that 3 month time.
If you sort by Added Order, the images are sorted in order they've been added to Library, not their capture time.
Also, a third solution, you may save xmp metadata for all images in LR1 then use Synchronize Folders in LR3 to bring the 100 images in.

Quickest way of Moving Folder and Files

I am in the process of moving a lot of folders to another drive and it is taking a lot of time.   I am doing the move in LR Library now and one alternative is to move outside of LR and use the Add Catalog import option (don't know if this is any faster).
Can you select multiple folders in LR Library to move to the same location or do you need to do one at a time? This would be onen benefit of doing it outside of LR.
Any thoughts?

yyy2moose writes:
finding the correct catalog will be a little tricky but I am sure I can find it
Then later, the same yyy2moose writes:
FYI - One Catalog - I have always worked with one catalog.
Mark me down as confused. These statements seem contradictory.
I will have to do some reading on "Find Folder" as your are saying that is all I need after I find the catalog. It must do more than I was thinking...
Yes, you could do some reading on this, or you could just go back to Dorin's post earlier in this thread, I believe that's all the reading you need.
There were only two reasons that I am doing the moves at this time.
          A. Migrating to LR 2.x to LR 3... I did a lot of work under LR3 Beta and it did not seem to pull all these folders into LR3 when I did the install.   I could not find the option to upgrade from the bata version or it probably would have taken care of this for me (too bad)                     B. Consolidating the file location to an external HD.
I am aware that there have been some reported problems in converting LR3Beta catalogs to LR3. The upgrade option is simply to open the catalog. File->Open Catalog, and point to the LR3Beta catalog.
You seem to be quite confused on catalogs and files and how they interact. Moving photos is not the same things as moving/upgrading catalogs. I am going to suggest that you not do any more PHOTO moves until you straighten out all your catalog issues. Find the catalogs, combine them into one with File->Import from Catalog, make sure everything is properly linked inside the catalog. Then, and only then, go to the next step of consolidating photos on the external HD. I strongly recommend you read The Lightroom Starter Kit and Ten Things I Wish I Could Tell Every New Lightroom User, paying particular attention to the parts that describe the Lightroom Library Module.

I have mac version 10.10.1 yosemite.Using LR3. I exported 7 sub folders from LR to an external hard drive in order to free up space on my mac hd.

encountered two problems:
1. instead of seeing the 7 sub folders in the external drive, all the images are out of order, entirely scrambled. when I open LR3 however, the contents of these folders are greyed out and show 0 images. I can see the question mark next to the image saying it is located elsewhere (i.e. on the external hd)If I plug in the external hd I can open the images and edit in CS5, but as I said it 's like finding a needle in the haystack.
2. no new space shows up on my mac hd even though that was the reason I made the export.
is there a way to fix this? I have a different external hd that backs up LR. Currently it is not plugged in. I am afraid to plug it in because it will take the new LR configuration and I'd lose any option to correct the problem. I also , on the same (different) hd I have Time Machine backup. would that help to fix the problem and bring back the organization I previously had with the 7 subfolders. All that organization is currently lost,i.e. show as greyed out 0 content in LR on my mac hd and shows as scrambled on the external hd.
Can I fix this??

zarowin, you want to move the files. Not export them! See here: Move folders around in Lightroom | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tutorials. There are two ways to do that. One is to move the folders inside Lightroom to your external HD, the other is to move them in the finder and reconnect the folders afterwards using the tips in the link dj linked to above. Also, you really should upgrade your Lightroom. LR 3 is not fully Yosemite compatible. I think the problems are mostly cosmetic though.
Periodically I get a prompt in lr asking if I want to back up lr and I have been consistent about doing so. At this point however, since those out of order images have be “exported” (am I using the right word??) to the second external hd, into a folder without subfolders, (hence the scrambling effect), if I were to plug in the external hd that is my backup drive (for time machine as well as for lr), won’t it be backing up the mistake I made by not using subfolders ongto the other external drive, thereby compounding the problem?
This warning has nothing to do with Time Machine. It is Lightroom's own backup. Every week or so, it will generate a backup Library that you can revert to in the case of trouble. In fact, you can usually safely delete the very old ones but keep them from the last month or so. Look for them in a folder called "Backups" right next to your main catalog file (probably in your Pictures folder). Be sure to only throw away the oldest backups. If you have never done this and have a large catalog with 10's of thousands of images you probably have easily 100 GB of these backups. Just calculate how much space you are wasting if you started doing this around LR 3, several years of backup catalogs at a frequency of once a week, and a typical catalog size of 1.5 GB (my main catalog is over 2GB).
Lastly, Time Machine backup doesn't overwrite older versions. It keeps versions around of all your catalog files (including the backups!).

LR3 Import Selected Folders

In LR2 it was possible to put a checkmark beside selected folders to import in the LR catalog. The 'include subfolders' checkbox in LR3 only partially accomplishes the same thing, but with much less flexibility.
I create my folder structure and copy images from CF cards through the operating system and do my initial edit and captioning in another program. Only then do I want to add them (without moving) to my LR3 catalog to take advantage of the Develop module.
When I started using LR2 I just imported folders as I needed to work on the images, but didn't import the root folders the 'shoot' folders are in. That means I have a whole lot of rather unorganized folders in a long list in my catalog. I'd like to go back and rationalize the catalog, adding the root and higher level folders. However, if I select 'Camera2010' to import with 'include subfolders' checked then LR3 wants to import everything, including small web versions and optimized TIFFs that are in folders a level below where all my raw files live. Yes, I could uncheck those files, but it would be a huge amount of tedium.
Is there any clean way to get my folder structure rationalized within LR3 without importing all the unwanted low-level processed images? My current catalog is about 50K images and I have many more to add.

GatorJim2000, very helpful answer.
I was able to turn off 'include subfolders' and select a high-level folder. Then I could Ctrl-click the individual folders below that I wanted to import, making sure not to highlight (select) the lowest level folders I did not want. Thank you.

Moving folders to an external hard drive - LR3.2, Mac Snow Leopard

I apologize for this right off, but after reading other threads in this forum, buying a book, and watching a video, I'm more confused than ever! I want to move (not copy), 6 months of folders, with their subfolders, meta-data and keywords, off my laptop hard drive onto an external hard drive, to free up room on my laptop. Then I want to be able to access them with the LR catalog on the external drive. The catalog I'm currently using (pointing to all my 2010 pictures) also contains more recent folders that I don't want to export, as they're still current. From my studies, there are all kinds of suggestions about creating new folders by drag and drop, using the plus sign, exporting catalogs etc., but nothing that tells me step by step how to achieve what I want to do! Could some kind person please walk me through this?
Thnaks,
Richard

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In the Library Module, click on the "+" icon in the Folders-panel, then click "Add folder".
Navigate to your external hard drive and create folder, call it whatever you want it to be.
Right click the new folder and click on "Add parent folder"; the drive should then become visible.
Then drag and drop your images into that folder.
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LR3- don't see any folders or drives in "Export To" - only desktop

When I attempt to Export files, the "Export to: Specific folder" only shows the desktop, and any file folders there. I cannot access any of the drives on the system. I have no trouble seeing all the drives and folders when importing. Using Windows 7, 64 bit computer.

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Can't create folders/organize in LR3 as I did in LR2.

In LR2 I created a folder off an ext hard drive of the year, then another folder within that of the month, then the jobs/shoots would go into a specific folder in that month ( like this 2011/6_2011/job folder). It was easy. I organized years of work this way. Now with LR3 (which I bought months ago but am hating) I cannot import photos like this 2011/6_2011/job folder - they are imported into the folder-year. Seems like a simple thing but I can't figure it out. I've tried different ways of importing, to no avail. Someone out there must have had the same problem when they upgraded to LR3. Please help.
Thank you!

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Power Failure caused all Catalogs and Folders to go Missing, LR3.4

Running LR 3.4 on a PC with Vista 32 bit when there was a power failure in the area. I switched off the 'power' to the PC.
When the power was restored I restarted the PC and LR and all the catalogs, folders and files have all gone missing
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Wondering whether there is a more up to date lrcat hidden somewhere in the PC as it is running fine or is there any other
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Appreciate any suggestion before I recover from the 20th June back up.

Jasonized, you are my saviour. I cannot thank you enough for getting me back to where I was just before the power failure. Everything that had gone missing have now been recovered except the enhancements to the last photo that I was working on at during the power failure. The lrcat file plus the lock and journal files were not in the recycle bin but was somehow saved into my LR V2 backup folder in E: drive ! I systematically searched all my drives and found it there.
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Importing to LR3.3 from Panasonic DMC-ZS3

Sorry if this has been addressed. I couldn't find anything about it.
Windows 7 Pro, 64bit, LR3.3, 2-SanDisk 2gb cards, RAW USB 2.0 UDMA reader
Ever since upgrading to LR3.3 I have not been able to Import files (jpg) from my wifes SD cards straight to LR. Her camera is a Panasonic DMC-ZS3. Prior to LR 3.3, ie; 3.0 it worked fine. I can copy via explorer to the hard drive then Import them to LR 3.3 without a problem. OK, there is a problem. I use LR's automatic folder destination creator by date taken, on import. It takes too much time to create all these folders using explorer.
The Import report says the files were not imported because they could not be read but reads them fine from my hard drive. It reads and imports the files from my Nikon (CF card) fine also.
Any ideas why LR 3.3 does not like these files anymore.
Jim

Jim,
Bad card readers and/or USB connections (cables, ports, hubs) are known to cause issues like yours. Somehow, LR seems to be more affected by these problems than the O/S tools.
jga154 wrote:
I can copy via explorer to the hard drive then Import them to LR 3.3 without a problem. OK, there is a problem. I use LR's automatic folder destination creator by date taken, on import. It takes too much time to create all these folders using explorer.
You could copy the files into ONE temporary folder via Explorer, and still use Copy/Move and LR's automatic folder creation by date.
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