Reveal folder location of photo in collection (reveal in Lightroom)
I've built up a collection that contains photos from many different LR folders. I there any way other than to use "reveal in Finder" to get LR to reveal what LR folder an image in a collection belongs to? i.e. I'd like to jump back to the folder that owns the image? I must be missing something. Thanks.
Sorry, I mis=read. I thought OP was looking to reaveal the collecion on the Folder. Folder is done im right hand Metadata listing as narya says.
We still want a 'Reveal Collection' for image in Folder. Just the reverse of this.
Don
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Did you follow this procedure?
Our iTunes guru Terence Devlin advises the following:
1. Quit iTunes
2. Drag the iTunes folder from your internal hd - located in ~/Music folder - to your external hd. DO NOT delete the original one from your internal hd... yet!
3. When the transfer is complete, press and hold the Option(alt) key and fire up iTunes.
4. A "Choose iTunes Library" window will come up. Click on the "Choose Library" button.
5. Navigate to where the iTunes folder is located in the external hd.
6. Within the iTunes folder, select the iTunes Library file and click Choose...
That's it. iTunes will now display all your playlists, songs, movies, podcasts etc. At this point, should you wish, you can delete the iTunes folder from the internal hd to free up space.
More info:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive -
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One of the things I hate about iTunes is that I keep my music collection on an external hard drive with mirrored RAID array. Songs I buy are automatically transferred onto that drive. But sometimes, the hard drive will go offline, for whatever reason - a power issue, bumped by someone, whatever. When that does happen, iTunes doesn't give you a warning, it just defaults to the internal Music folders. Until you realize that the hard drive is offline, every CD you rip, every song you buy will go straight to the iTunes folder on the Mac. When you finally reconnect that hard drive, and redirect iTunes to the iTunes Media Folder on it, you're hopelessly lost, with your music collection distributed between the two drives.
First off, WHY can't iTunes notify you that it can't find the designated iTunes Media Folder? It'll notify you about just about every single other bloody thing that happens in the computer?
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ks in advance!
ThanHi Jonathan, it annoyed the heck out of me too. Answers to your questions:
No idea, it’s probably trying to be “helpful”.
I don’t believe you can lock iTunes the way you want, but you CAN stop iTunes from running WITHOUT THE DRIVE YOU WANT I got sick of manually transferring songs when this happened to me too. In my case my library is on a network server (NAS). I wrote the following AppleScript to deal with the situation and it will work for any externally connected drive, network, USB, FireWire etc.
So to explain the script: I’m asking Terminal to list the directory contents of the iTunes Library folder on the external drive. If it can, it makes iTunes start. If it can’t (the “on error” bit), it beeps at you and displays a dialog box that tells you it cannot start. I then save the script as an App, and give it the same icon as iTunes has, but a different name (‘iTunes Custom Launcher” for example). Then I remove iTunes from the Dock and put my custom launcher in the Dock instead. Doing this means the only odd thing you will see is that when the launcher starts iTunes, there will seem to be two iTunes icons in the Dock, but only while iTunes is running.
— Start of script
tell application "Terminal"
try
do shell script "ls \"/Volumes/Music/iTunes Library\""
tell application "iTunes" to activate
on error
beep
display alert "iTunes will not start until the Network Music Library is available"
end try
end tell
tell application "Terminal" to quit
quit
— End of script
In order to use the script, you will need to replace the folder location of the iTunes Library. If you’re not familiar with Terminal, see what Finder says the name of the Disk (or network share) is when it is connected. Assuming your iTunes Library is called “iTunes Library”, the format of the third line of the script is:
do shell script “ls \"/Volumes/<disk or share name>/<folder>/<sub-folder…>iTunes Library\"”
If, like me, your iTunes Library folder is at the root of the external drive, you only need to replace <disk or share name> with the drive name and forget about the <folder>/<sub-folder…> bit. If you’re not sure what to do to the script let me know and we can do more Q&A to see exactly what you need to make the script look like.
So, the main steps:
Open the AppleScript Editor and copy/paste the script into the blank window
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Copy/Paste the app into your Applications folder using Finder
To give the new app the same icon as iTunes has (optional), in the Applications folder, select iTunes and copy it. Do a “Get Info" on your new app and select the little icon in the top-left of the info screen so it has a blue outline, then do command-V (paste).
Remove iTunes from the Dock and add your new app.
For your question 3, I would just go into the music folders of whoever logs on to your mac and manually move whatever folders for artists/albums/songs are there; it should be the last time
Let me know if you need more help
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No files or folders shown in Organizer Folder Location view
Hi!
I'm using Elements Organizer 8.0. If I select the Folder Location option from the Display menu, then I get a tree pane to left with a few folders in it: "Public", my user name, Computer, Network and Offline Media. The Computer folder in turn contains my drives. However, none of the folders can be expanded (no [+] icon) except for the mentioned Computer folder. So I can't reach any sub-folders. Furthermore, no files are ever displayed in the center pane, regardless of what folder is selected.
I have no filters set, I have tried enabling display of hidden files (not that this should matter) and can see no further options to change.
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/Björn StenborgDisplay > Folder Location view will only show files (and their containing folders) if you've previously imported them into the Organizer, e.g. with File > Get Photos And Videos > From Files And Folders. Have you imported any photos yet into your catalog?
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Ensure that iPhoto is closed.
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Click on Choose Library.
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For more information on moving your iPhoto library, see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229.
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I was of the opinion that I could click 'Folder Location' (Botton Left of Screen) and I could locate the folders and files in which my photos are held. i.e. My Pictures >Library and the the folder ie Avocets expecting all my avocets photos in that file to come on screen.
What I get is "The folder being renamed contains files that are not visible in the Organiser. Are you sure you want to rename?
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Not confident with computers so any solution should be simple click by click suggestions. Please help hoping I have explained my problem clearly.
Brian Holland.
Window XP Home is what I use.Jeurgen,
Since reading your kind response I have had a worrying thought and that is that all 5,000 odd imgaes are already showing in the Organiser. The problem is when I click Folder Location and I click in a folder containing some images it gives me the message that I set out in my opening forum question.
Surely if I do as you suggest and click Get Photos i.e. from the folders/files in which they now rest then they wil be dublicated and cause massive problems.
My new computer has been dispateched and in my naeviety I am hoping that once all is reinstalled the problem will go away.
I will let you know how things work out or seek further simple guidance to overcome it.
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Finding files by searching folder location.
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dj_paige wrote:
It says here that you can use the Search Box to find photos by folder name
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/elementsorganizer/using/WS3265F89A-20BA-47 fd-81D5-9091ABA3819D.html
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2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
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If the new library does'nt have that problem then your original library is damaged. Post back if that's the case and we'll go from there.
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I have searched and learned that I can create more than one iTunes library file. I can do this so I can start to separate out my large music collection into more manageable chunks. I have learned that I can switch libraries by holding down the "shift" key while starting iTunes (I'm on Windows, so for me it's the shift key) and selecting or creating a new library. Life is good.
However, it seems that the "Media folder location" is the same for all libraries that I create. I want to have certain files and their associated library files on an external drive, and the rest of my library on my local drive. It doesn't let me do that. When I create a new library, and set it up on my "I" drive, and I change the "Media folder location" to also point to the "I" external drive, it works fine. I rip some music, and it's all good.
However, when I close iTunes and switch back to my original library which stores music on the "C" drive, the media folder location for that library has also been switched to the "I" drive. This is not good. The point of having separate libraries is to be able to manage my music. All of "these songs" go on the external drive, and the library files are also there, but all of "those songs" go on my internal drive, and the library should also be on the internal drive.
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I use two libraries. One media folder is on my D:\ drive, and the other, for storing music in a lossless format, is on my external H:\ drive. The library files, however, are both on my C:\ drive. (C and D are partitions of the hard drive in my desktop PC.) The first library file is under My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ and the second one for my lossless music is at My Documents\My Music\iTunes Lossless Library\. (This works great because when I hold shift and open iTunes, the Open iTunes Library window appears, and I just navigate up one level, pick either the \iTunes or the \iTunes Lossless Library folder, and choose the library file therein.)
Tonight I copied the lossless media folder to a new, larger external drive. I then relabeled the old external drive as P: and labeled the new external drive as H:. I then deleted the lossless files from the old drive (now labeled P:). When I first opened my lossless library in iTunes, I could see all of my lossless files which are stored on the new drive (, i.e., the new H:). But when I went to Edit>Preferences>Advanced, the iTunes media folder location showed the D: drive media folder. Uh oh. Looking for help, I came and read this thread. Althought it left me expecting the worst, I just went ahead and changed the media folder location for my lossless music to the H: drive folder, closed iTunes, went back in, and the change stuck. I opened the other library, went back and forth a few times, and each shows its correct media folder location. So maybe this problem was fixed by Apple with an iTunes update, or maybe it's because I keep both libraries on my C: drive instead of on the separate drives where the files are located. I have no idea, but I just wanted to share my observations in case it helps someone else. -
Is there a way to get iPhoto to reconcile its library and search for photos that have been moved?
I have reorganised a handful of photo folders and now iPhoto shows the thumbnail but no full size image.
As I dont let iPhoto organise the photos for me, I am looking for an option that will let me tell it where these photo now reside.
The alternative appears to be to delete the photos from iPhoto and re-add them, but that means loosing all the meta data (ie comments, ratings etc).
Ta
OllyAccording to iPhoto Help you may have duffed it up by moving the files;
Moving the iPhoto Library folder to a new location
The iPhoto Library folder, located in your Pictures folder, contains photos you have imported into your photo library and any albums, slideshows, books, calendars, or cards you've created using iPhoto.
IMPORTANT: If you move, delete, rename, or otherwise touch files or folders within this folder, you may be unable to see your pictures in the iPhoto application. The files within this folder should only be manipulated by a customer care representative. It is a good idea, however, to routinely back up this entire folder to a CD or external hard disk so you have a copy in case your photos become lost or corrupted for any reason.
To move the iPhoto Library folder:
1. Quit iPhoto.
2. Move the iPhoto Library folder to a new location on your computer.
3. IMPORTANT: If you've created multiple photo libraries, be sure to move only the library currently displayed when iPhoto is open. If you want to move a photo library other than the one you're currently working on, you first need to switch to it.
4. Open iPhoto.
5. Click Choose Library.
6. Navigate to where you moved the library and select it.
7. Click Open.
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