Publish to hard drive mirroring folder structure

Hello,
The publish to hard drive feature was one of my most anticipated additions in LR3. I use this to maintain a backup of all my images with the edits baked in, which offers a great level of security.
My only disappointment is that it flattens the folder structure. Backing up an entire catalogue to a single folder is less than convenient, so I ended up creating multiple publish folders in order to keep the file counts reasonable.
But the ideal would be the ability for the publish feature to mirror the folder structure, creating a backup that is organised just how I like it.
Kind regards,
Tom

threeshinyapples wrote:
The publish to hard drive feature was one of my most anticipated additions in LR3. I use this to maintain a backup of all my images with the edits baked in, which offers a great level of security.
My only disappointment is that it flattens the folder structure. Backing up an entire catalogue to a single folder is less than convenient, so I ended up creating multiple publish folders in order to keep the file counts reasonable.
But the ideal would be the ability for the publish feature to mirror the folder structure, creating a backup that is organised just how I like it.
You seem to be using the wrong tool for the job of backing up, why not use ChronoSync on Mac or Clone on PC to back up your folders [and structure] to a location of your choosing independently of LR? They can also back up any folders like your preferences or catalogue not just your images and do so according to a schedule that you designate.
Both are very easy to use and can back up single folders or entire hard drives or anything in between. I also find them very handy for location work as these programmes always keep my backup ext. HD in sync with my main ext HD without my having to think about it.

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Sooo, I've been trying to find a answer to this without luck. So I'm hoping someone can help me out.
I have Publish to Hard Drive set up to get photos onto my iPad for my jewelry company. I need the photos to come up in different folders- rings, bracelets etc. So I have smart collections set up do do this. Took me forever to go through 1000's of photos and attribute keywords to all of them, but it is done! So they are in separate smart collections for rings, bracelets, etc. The first time I published these into my iMac's Pictures folder, all the separate collections went into separate folders with respective names but in one big folder titled Untitled Import.
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Disclaimer: I was not able to follow all of that.
That said, consider TreeSync Publisher (a free plugin I wrote) which supports exporting into folders which match collection set tree - collections in said tree can be smart..
So for example, you could set up a collection set:
* Jewelry Company (set):
     * Rings (smart coll)
     * Bracelets (smart coll)
etc.
Then point TreeSync Publisher to said collection set and export (or publish) - you'll get export tree:
Jewelry Company (folder)
     Rings (subfolder)
     Bracelets (subfolder)
i.e. exported folder tree will match "source" (mirrored) collection set tree.
Jeffrey Friedl also has a publish service plugin which may serve your needs: Collection Publisher.
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Always have two backups. AND have one partition on another drive just for emergency.
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Put all your updaters somewhere safe on another disk.
Burn them to DVD.
Don't use Software Update.
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2015 (folder)
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Publish to hard drive mirroring folder structure

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