Lightroom :: Moved All Photos From Structured Folder System Into One Unorganised Folder On External Drive
Jul 17, 2013
I've got about 10,000 photos that I've moved in lightroom by creating a folder called 'pictures' on the external drive using the left folders panel. I then selected all the images in the root drive on my computer and dragged them onto the 'pictures' folder on the external drive, and I expected the folder structure to come with it. Only after I realised that they had all moved into one folder. Is there a way of moving the images back into a structure without manually doing it? Here's a screenshot.....
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May 7, 2013
897.33 GB on disk (897,256,881,809 bytes) for 35,021 items
Right now I can't import anything new to work on. I have other external drives, but this is the one that I work from. What can I do?
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A direct download of the installer from adobe is not possible unfortunately.
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