Trouble moving files in lightroom 2.5

I can't seem to resolve a problem with moving files in Lightroom 2.5. While in the program, can not drag and drop images from one folder to another. If drag and drop from IE (Windows Vista), and then go back into Lightroom 2.5, catalog does not update or recognize the move was done. I have to resync the folders every time.
When you want to move a photo to another folder in LR, you have to drag the thumbnail, not the rectangle around the thumbnail.
Lightroom does not find the new location of photos moved in Windows. Simply not a feature of the program. Therefore, you are best off to do the move in LR.
Based on tutorial videos that I've watched, it should be capable of these very basic things. I'm still new to LR and learning but can't seem to get past this. Is this a bug or setup issue? Not sure what I'm missing but it's driving me nuts, would appreciate any help
I don't know what tutorials you are watching, but as I said, locating files that have been moved in Windows is not a feature/capability of Lightroom. You have to point Lightroom to the new location of the photo, or better yet, move the photo in LR. Or, even better, don't move photos from one folder to another, instead browse your photos in Lightroom, using keywords, metadata and collections (instead of folders) as your method of organization.

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iPhoto problems should be posted in their forums.
I also have trouble downloading photos to the internet.
Needs clarification. You upload from your computer to the internet & download from a website/internet to your computer. So which are you trying to do? Either way, sounds like a browser issue. You need to post in the forum of whichever browser you are using.

Another person asking about moving files in lightroom

I have spent several hours today trying to sort out, what I thought was going to be an easy question.
Moving files from my internal hdd to an external one.
Ok, I know it should be easy, a trillion posts say how to do this.
Sys info (from LR itself):
Lightroom version: 3.3 [711369]
Operating system: Windows Vista Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Version: 6.0 [6002]
Application architecture: x86
System architecture: x86
Physical processor count: 2
Processor speed: 1.7 GHz
Built-in memory: 3061.6 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 716.8 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 343.8 MB (47.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 318.7 MB
Memory cache size: 0.0 MB
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Desktop composition enabled: Yes
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My files and their backups were scattered across 3 drives, I reformatted (a complete format - not a quick format) then proceeded to move the larger part of my library onto it using lightroom, apply some metadata and allowing lightroom to put them in date specific folders.
Phew that was a long job.
Now I wanted to take what was left of my library that currently resides on my C:/ drive in my laptop and move it onto the external 1tb drive. It says they are already there.
Searching for them outside of windows says they are not there. Trying to use the import dialog with the move function comes up with nothing to move.
I could drag and drop but I get a dialog box saying I can't undo anything that has been done to these files before. I want to keep and be able to edit/undo my edits. Isn't that what LR3 is supposed to be?
Anyways; I'd love some help. I have tried watching some of David Marx videos (from the lightroom lab site) and a large number of threads on this forum. I'm stumped and I'm frustrated.
Thanks for your time.

Okay....
I think I've answered my own question... sort of.
I tried the drag and drop method of copying and that seems to work. I don't understand the dialog box and why it makes it seem so final.
So, I don't know why the import function didn't work, when the other night it did, but the drag and drop method worked where the import dialog failed and I'll have to change the folders and metadata manually.

Trouble Moving Files in Dreamweaver (CS3)

Hi,
Having a real problem maneuvering some files around.
At the moment I have my index.html file which links to a folder called 2009website, which contains 4 folders each with a mini site in.
So for instance the index file is pointing to 2009website/design/print.html
and also
2009website/business/clientportfolio.html
etc, etc.
What I want to do is take those 4 mini sites outside of the 2009website folder so that my index file points to:
design/print.html
and
business/clientportfolio.html
So I've moved the folders in my Files Panel and clicked "Update links" in the dialog box which seemed to work nicely. Only problem is all the images and css links within the HTML are still looking in the 2009website folder, i.e.
2009website/design/css/design.css (and there's nothing in that folder anymore)
Is there anyway I can remove the 4 folders and have the internal links update so they drop the 2009website/ and just look for the relevant folder and file?
I know it's my own fault for putting everything inside the 2009website folder when there was no real need to.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

When you say you updated the links and everything seems to be ok - do you see any broken links within DW design view itself?
If the files are pointing to that particular folder for the images and the css, but there is Nothing in the folders, then there is a major issue I think.
This means that the updating of the links didn't work as you expected - if the files are not in the relevant folders, but the images and css are pointing to them, then you should be seeing broken links...
What you could try:
Backup what you have now - so it doesn't get any messier :-) (hopefully you have a backup copy of the original before you starting moving files !)
If you are sure that the files are all within the root of the site and not within that 2009 folder, then maybe do a find and replace and remove the beginning of the url, so that it points to where you moved the files to. Try it on one page and see if it makes a difference.
You could also try and move around the images folder and the css folder and see if you get a pop up with DW asking if you want to update the links and see what happens.
Another idea - do you have an images folder defined in the site definition?
Other than that, I'm not sure what else you can do.

Trouble moving photos in Lightroom

I hope I'm positing this in the right place. I recently imported a number of photos from a workshop I took into Lightroom 3. They were on a jump drive that I have always used to keep my photos and move them from laptop to desktop. Have had no trouble doing so in the past -- I have catalogues on laptop and desktop, the photos themselves on the jump drive.
I wanted to rearrange my folders, so I tried moving them.
I get a "can't move with an unkown error." When I go look at them on the jump drive or on my backup drive via the Finder, they seem to all be there. The majority are raw files and I can even open them in Photoshop from these locations. I did convert to .dng while moving
Anyone have any idea what's going on? I do have them in multiple locations -- i.e. I also have the same folder in pictures.
I have tried moving them both via the Import dialogue and then just by dragging them within the interface.
Help!

Lightroom will move files and folders within the catalog using Drag and Drop. If the catalog is on a fixed disk, not removable media.
If the catalog is on a laptop and desktop and the photos on a jump drive the jump drive must be inserted at all times when the catalog is opened. Otherwise, Lightroom will be using cached preview images and cannot move them because the base photo is missing.
The above is not a very good workflow, so I am assuming you have Lightroom copy the images to both the laptop and the desktop computers.
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Re-open Lightroom, Select the folder that was moved and select Update folder location.

LR - Moving Files in Lightroom VS the Operating System | Software Cinema for Photographers | Adobe TV

Julieanne Kost shows how to best move and work with files, and demonstrates how Lightroom keeps track of images if they're moved.
http://adobe.ly/wc4aPQ

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Hello,
I recently changed from LR3 to 5.2 and have a problem I hope someone can help with.
I have a lot of pictures taken on a trip and have created somenew folders within the original folder to place them into categories. When I drag files from the main folder into one of the new ones Lightroom creates a new file in the new folder , but also leaves one in the original one. If I then delete the file from the original folder LR deletes it from the new one as well.
I have checked the preferences and catalog settings and read the instruction PDF but can't find anything to help.
I should point out that the catalog was created in LR3 and imported into LR5 and has behaved fine in all other respects.
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Graham
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Here's a screen capture of the exported image after I've re-imported it into lightroom. This is a JPG with sRGB and 100% quality. It's resized on export with 3264pixel long edge at 240dpi.
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When I run the sudo command it doesn't seem to tell me anything.
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When I add the file name after the sudo command does it stay in quotes, and do I leave the extension?
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