Lightroom :: Keyword All Photos In Folder Simultaneously After Import?

Jan 8, 2013

How do you keyword all photos in a folder simultaneously after import?

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Lightroom :: Synchronize Folder Then Import New Photos

Jul 28, 2012

I am new to Lightroom, and just purchased LR 4, upgraded to LR 4.1 and catolog my photo files. After this, I uploaded some photos from a SD card to a common folder (e.g. "Uploads 2012") on my hard drive using LR. This worked well. I then used Windows Explorer to drag/drop those files into their respective proper folders (there were many files on the card that were appropriate for different existing folders on my computer).
 
Here's where the problem starts. Prior to this uploading session, I had 297 files in a photo folder. Afterwards, I had 427 photos in this same folder. Using LR 4.1, I chose to "synchronize folder", then "import new photos" (it recognizes that there are new photos in this dialogue box).  The program tells me this task is completed, but afterwards there remain 297 photos in the LR folder, and 427 photos in the location in Windows Explorer.

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Lightroom :: Import Not Showing All Photos In Folder

Jan 16, 2012

I am trying to sync my folders but Lightroom is not importing all of the photos in the folder.  In one folder I have 675 photos (both jpg and CR2) and Lightroom is only importing 1.  Even though you can look at the folder in another window and see all 675 (photo below).  This is happening in several of my folders.
 
The folders that have problems have arrows that are greyed out versus solid grey arrows. If the info is needed:

- Mac Mini - OSX (Leopard)
- Lightroom 3
- Photos were in Aperature prior to exporting out to import into Lightroom
- Photos were either taken with Canon Rebel XS or Canon Powershot S3IS
- I have tried optimizing my catalog.
- I have tried remove the folder from Lightroom and re-importing.  Still only recognizes 1 photo.
  - The do not import duplicates button is not clicked
  - I have confirmed that all filters are off.

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Lightroom :: Set-up Folder On Desktop To Import Photos?

Dec 16, 2010

I have a Mac 10.6.5. and Lightroom 3.3.
 
How to import photos from my SLR to a folder on my desktop before I import them into Lightroom.
 
I use a card reader to import photos. I do not wish Lightroom to open first but to go straight to my desktop? I set up a folder on the desktop, but my camera does not recognize  the folder .I do not have my Nikon's  editing application  installed on my computer.

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Lightroom :: Renaming Photos On Import From Pictures Folder

Jun 5, 2013

I recently purchased a new Canon T5i and have started using Lightroom.  So far I am loving both.
 
I plan on importing into my Lightroom Catalogue all of my photos from my Mac's Pictures folder and from iPhoto and my iPhone and iPad.
 
For those photos already in my catalogue from new shoots, I have placed them in appropriately named photos, have religiously used tags and have renumbered the photos using this type of convention:
 
My Initials_Year_Event Description_Sequence
 
I am ending up with some very long file names. I am not a professional photographer so this is all for me but I want to be able to search for my photos from both within Lightroom AND from the Mac's finder. I am looking for input to create unique but descriptive names but not make the photo names very long.
 
Here is my thought process:
 
1. I am using my initials as I can then search in the Mac Finder and find all photos and movies regardless of extension (e.g. CR2, DNG, JPG, MOV).  My initials are not on other files in my Mac.
 
2. I am using a descriptive name so I can search for the photos for example of "Dan's Wedding" and find those both in Finder and in Lightroom.  The Dan's Wedding photos are in a Lighroom directory called "Dan's Wedding" and they are tagged with Wedding and Dan.  This might be over kill but I think the actual file name is most useful to me when it describes the event.
 
3. The number is of course what makes each file unique.

SO.....some questions.
 
1.  Is putting my initials a waste of time?  I could search in Finder for "DNG, JPG, MOV" but I would get files besides those in Lightroom (assume all of the items in my Pictures folder will eventually be in Lightroom.
 
2. Do I really need a date in the file name given that a meta data search will find the photo's taken date?  I am more likely to remember an event name like "Dan's Wedding" than the fact it happend in "2013 June".
 
3. If I use a date, should I put the year first for search purposes?

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Lightroom :: Deletion Of Photos From Original Folder On Import Catalogue?

Jan 11, 2013

I am travelling to the UK and wish to export my photograph collection as a catalogue to my laptop (without the original photos) and work on organising them, deleting unwanted photos, etc and then reimport the catalogue on my return. My question is this - if I delete a photo whilst on my laptop, on reimport into my main computer will lightroom then go and delete this photograph from my original collection as I hope it will do?

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Lightroom :: When Importing Photos In LR4 / Import Function Doesn't See All Pics In Folder

Jun 15, 2012

I have a catalog with all photos imported from a trip I just got back from.  But when I compare the catalog to the actual photos in the folder, there are 104 pics missing from the catalog.  If I try to sync the catalog, it says 104 pics need to be imported, but the import process says there are no new photos.
 
I created a new catalog and tried to import the folder again, but its still missing the same 104 pictures.

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Lightroom :: How To Stop LR5 From Adding Dated Sub Folder Every Time Import Photos

Dec 28, 2013

How do I stop LR5 from adding a dated sub folder every time I import photos.   This just started  and I can't find a way to turn this off.   What ever date photo were taken LR makes a folder with that date when importing.

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Lightroom :: How To Import From Multiple Cards Simultaneously

Dec 27, 2011

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Lightroom :: How To Import Multiple Catalogs Simultaneously Into One Catalog

Nov 28, 2013

I would like to import multiple catalogs simultaneously into one catalog.
 
The thing is that I lost my main catalog in a hard-drive failure and my last backup is too old. Fortunately I always "export a folder as catalog" into the original pictures folder, so I always keep starring, color editing, etc.
 
What I would like to do now is to import each of these litle catalogs into one new main one, without having to import each at a time, but all simultaneously, which would save me an enormous amount of time.
 
Is there a way to do this?

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Lightroom :: How To Move (Not Delete) A Keyword Out Of A Folder

Nov 24, 2012

I'm using LR v4.2
 
Over time, I've organized related keywords into various folders for simplicity. I come to find that I don't care for this system and I wish to have all my keywords in a single list without being grouped into folders.
 
How do I move (not delete) individual keywords out of the folders where they currently are located?

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Lightroom :: Keyword Tags - Why Can't Add Keyword Tags To Multiple Photos

Sep 2, 2013

I have used multiple versions of Lightroom (2, 3, 4, and now 5).  Why can't I add keyword tags to multiple photos?  I know that it can be done while importing, but I usually import a whole day's worth of pictures at one time and they don't require all the same keyword tags. The ones that are common I do add during import.  I used to be able to highlight the photos I wanted to add tags to, go to the metadata and find find the list of keywords applied to those photos.  Tags that were not common to all photos has an * beside them.  If I wished to have one of these tags for all the selected photos I just removed the *, otherwise I added the new tag to the list.

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Lightroom :: How To Keyword Photos With Use Of Space Bar

Apr 7, 2013

I have shot a sport tournament last weekend and when importing the photos, amongst others, I used keywords "Day 1", "Day 2" and "Day 3". I wanted to work on the photos of Day 3. When I entered "Day 3" in the find box, days 1 and 2's photos also appreared. I jumped on the net and read on a site not to use spaces. Question: How would you have tagged Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 in the key words?

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Lightroom :: Find Photos Without A Keyword Tag?

Apr 25, 2012

How do I find photos without a keyword tag?
 
And by the way a further question regarding keyword tags remains unanswered...Why is there a difference between the number next to the keyword and the actual index number in the keyword folder?

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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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Lightroom :: Import Xml Keyword List

Jun 21, 2012

We use lightroom to edit our pictures (about 25.000 pictures a week).We have a deep archiving system which uses a thesaurus (controlled vocabulary list if you like)That deep archiving system picks up the embeded metadata we enter in lightroom.
 
For the keywords however, we need lightroom to be able to import an .xml file provided by that professional deep archiving system on a regular basis (weekly ?)
 
There is a plugin available here URL.... but it does not seem to work .I tried contacting the author but I got no response.

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Lightroom :: Apply Keyword To Group Of Photos?

Nov 19, 2012

I am trying to apply a keyword to a group of photos, and am holding down the shift key as instructed. However, only the first picture is getting the keyword attached. I am using Lightroom 4.

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Lightroom :: How To View / Browse Photos By Keyword

Apr 18, 2012

What I can't seem to figure out is how to browse photos by keyword without creating a smart collection for every keyword.

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Lightroom :: Cannot Select Photos From Keyword List

Jun 26, 2012

When I try to select photos in the Library section from the keyword list all goes well until I get to the "R***" words and below - all the way to the "Z***" words.. From "R" words on LR will not allow me to select any keyword.When I ust the Filter, I can select any of the words below the "R****" words. Is it possible that there is a limit to the number of keywords allowed in the keyword list?

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Lightroom :: Get A Folder To Appear In Folder List / When Trying To Import Pictures?

Nov 27, 2012

There is a folder on my hard drive that does not appear in the list of folders in the import dialog. I have tried expanding all the other folders around it (my photos are filed by date of capture) to see if it was somehow imported as a subfolder. It is simply not there. I can find and open it and access all the pictures in Photoshop Elements but not in Lightroom 4.

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Lightroom :: How To See Full Keyword List When Importing Photos

Feb 19, 2013

While importing photos, I would like to add keywords selected from my full list of keywords. not add new keywords where I can use an existing one.  I think I used to be able to see it but can't remember how I accessed it. 

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Lightroom :: 4.1 - Keyword List / No Photos Match The Filter

Jun 5, 2012

LR4.1 64-bit Windows 7
 
I have  relatively small (1k), and completely flat (non-hierarchical) keyword list.
 
for a small number of keywords, I have the following problem:
 
If I open Library, witht the centre panel in Grid View, then select Keyword List from the RHS panel, and select one these "problem" keywords, On the rhs of the screen it shows a number, indicating the number of images to which this keyword is attached.
 
I then click the arrow next to the number to display the images with this keyword.
 
the library filter opens in the centre panel of the screen area, dropping down the Keyword filter and correctly highlighting the selected keyword; however against this, the keyword show 0 matches and the message "No photos match the filter" is displayed.
 
If I right-click on the keyword in the Keyword List  and select delete, the message is displayed that the keyword will be deleted from n photos
 
Thus I don't  know if there are photos with the keyword which are just not being displayed, or whether there are a number of "phantom" keywords which are not associated with any images.
 
It may be that I am lacking understanding of some aspect of LR functionality; or that somehow there is an indexing problem within my LR catalogue.

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Lightroom :: Keyword Synonyms Created As New Keywords On Import

Feb 6, 2013

I just exported a large batch of images sized for submission to Alamy.  I had the images that were created by the export, imported back into Lightroom. 
 
The problem.  All the keyword synonyms that were exported in the images, created new stand alone keywords in the keyword list - bad.
 
I had all my keywords nicely organized into 12 neat groups.  Now I have a couple of hundred top level keywords because of the synonyms.
 
Can this be prevented?

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Lightroom :: Stop Auto Adding Of Keyword At Import?

Jun 7, 2012

I have no import presets created (verified by the import screen saying "none" when importing), yet LR adds one (the same one) keyword to all photos imported.  I have 4.1, but this has been happening in previous versions.  How to stop this?? It is very time consuming to always have to remove this keyword.

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Lightroom :: Export Resized Photos As New Catalog With Keyword Hierarchy

Dec 31, 2013

I want a new catalog with small jpgs and the hierarchical keywords. But I seem to be able to get each part of that individually but I can't seem to get them all at the same time.
 
If I select images and export them with "Write Keywords as Lightroom Hierarchy" checked, then import those new jpgs into a new catalog, my keywords are a flat list without the hierarchy. I tried exporting my keyword hierarchy as *.txt then importing it into an empty catalog so the hierarchy already existed. When I imported the new jpgs into that catalog, the keywords still came in as a flat list appended to the hierarchical keyword list.
 
I tried selecting the images and importing as a new catalog, which gives me a new catalog, but the new catalog has the original raw images.

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Lightroom :: How To Import Photoshop Elements 10 Keyword Tags When Importing Into LR

Jan 7, 2012

Is there a way to import photoshop elements 10 keyword tags when importing into lightroom?

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Lightroom :: Unable To Drag A Group Of Photos Or Even Single Photos To A Publish Folder

Oct 2, 2012

I'm unable to drag a group of photos or even single photos to a publish folder.  In this case it's SmugMug. What is the correct method?

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Lightroom :: Focus Jumps To Keyword Filter Box When Clicking A Keyword

Aug 17, 2010

Long, long, keyword hierarchy.  Clicking on a keyword takes the focus back up to the keyword filter box.  Usually happens if I've used the filter box to narrow down the keywords that are visible. Continues even after the filter box has been cleared.  Doesn't happen all the time though.  It is a real pain when trying to double click a keyword to edit it as the first click or the double click causes the list to refresh showing only the top entries.  The second click (of the double click) then causes whatever keyword is now under the pointer to be keyword to be edited - NOT the keyword under the pointer when I started the double click.
 
I've seen this happen in both LR3.0 and LR3.2RC.
 
Windows XP, 32bit.

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Lightroom :: Syncing Keyword Changes To LR3 Catalogs Among Different Users (using A Common Keyword Set)

Jul 5, 2012

I'm new to LightRoom and am glad to have found this great resource. Onto the issue at hand:
 
An ongoing office project is using LR3 to catalog 30 years' worth of images gathered from various media. Some are scans of slides, negatives, or prints; others are images straight from a digital camera. We have three people working on this cataloging project. The lead guy has created keywords on his computer that he uses to tag these images. Is there any way to make sure the keywords he's using on his machine sync with and are available to the other users of the image catalog? If not, is there a file that would have to be shared among the three users to make that functionality happen?

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Lightroom :: 4.4 - Library Filter By Keyword - Unable To Select Keyword

Jan 2, 2014

Lightroom version: 4.4 [891433]
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium Edition
Version: 6.1 [7601]
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2.6 GHz
Built-in memory: 6087.8 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 6087.8 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 523.6 MB (8.6%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 551.5 MB
Memory cache size: 1012.7 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 2
System DPI setting: 106 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: No
Displays: 1) 1600x900
 
If I am in Library module, select filter Metadata, select Keywords from dropdown (no other filter panels selected), and start to scroll down the list of keywords, I can select keywords by mouseclick, and see the matching photos as thumbs in the main window.
 
However as I scroll further down, I can no longer select keywords - the mouseclick no longer highlights or selects. This happens rather incosnsistently - by which I mean, the point in the eyword list where the select stops working is not always the same place in the keyword list.
 
If I click several times on the same non-selecting keyword, LR4.4 jumps to taking 50% (exactly) of processor time (shown in task manager) , and the memory usage climbs steadily until all free RAM is consumed.
 
This is a small (~8000 image) catalogue, with ~2500 keywords, entirely non-hierarchical.
 
The catalogue is set to optimise on backup, weekly.
 
I've tried deleting and recreating the preferences file btw to no avail

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Lightroom :: Creates A Keyword Inside Another Keyword?

Mar 12, 2012

#LR4 catalog:createKeyword creates a keyword inside another keyword even though the 4th parameter (parent) in the call is nil. LR3 API doc says .. 'nil to create at the top level' and thats how it worked. Looking forward to LR4 SDK documentation.

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