I find I have to move a good many images among files. How can I do this within Lightroom 4? If I have file S, the sending file, with 25 images, how do I send five images from S to R, the recipient file?
View 5 RepliesI've watched all of the tutorials and read all I can to get to the bottom of this to no avail. I understand that I need to use the foilders panel in the library module to move photos, my problem is that the folder module does not show any destination folders at all!
When I import my images I create a job and place the images in a subfolder named Raw Files eg. 2013 Jobs > 075 Robert and Jess E-Shoot > Raw Files
This way all of my images are in a folder that is job related. Occasionally, however, I will forget to change the import folder when importing the Raws, and the images for the next job will go into the Raw folder for the previous job. I'd like to be able to move the raw images to the correct folder, but in the folder panel the only path showing is the path I've imported to.
In the case above, my 2013 Jobs file should show 75 subfolders of individual jobs, but there is only one showing. I need to be able to see the destination folder in lightroom to move the Raws to their proper home. As I can't see the destination folder I can't move any files, and I end up having to try to work it out in the operating system.
how to get all of the subfolders to show?
How do I move multiple images at once from All Photos to a Collection or from one Collection to another (it works when I drag them one at a time, but there must be a better way)?
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The catalog contains only images located on a NAS.
I can connect to the NAS from both computer, but when I'm trying to ´import the catalog I get the message "Lightroom could not import this catalog because of an unknown error" I use the same versions of Lightrrom on both computers.
It's easy enough to move the map marker for a single image. But I can't find a way to move the marker when multiple images are represented by the marker (thereby changing the location information for all the images). What should I be doing?
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However, if I put a folder of images into that watched folder (i.e. "James and Stephanie" is put into a "wedding" folder), nothing happens. I do not want all of my images in one single folder; that's why I have Lightroom, so they can be organized in folders but collected in a database.
I also do not understand why Lightroom wants to move auto-imported images into a destination folder.
I would like to drop a folder into the "watched folder" and have Lightroom import (without moving the image) into my catalog.
I was surprised to not find this issue in Internet searches; is it dreadfully obvious, or is there a better way that I'm not familar with?
I've noticed when using the single image/contact sheet that you are able to move the images inside the cells without moving the cells. I would like to be able to do that when I create a custom package. What setting in the lrtemplate file that is or if you are even able to do it?
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Now when I go to Previous import the pictures are not found. Neither are the files in the location I move them to. When I do a search for the images with the keywords I tagged those images with, I can't locate them. I don't see them in the Trash either.
Now, I have no idea where those images are. This is very bad. I guess I'll have to use Finder to move the images first then "Add" them to Lightroom afterwards. It's a good thing I was paying attention when I did the import.
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I've moved all picture files to a new hard drive. How do I tell Lightroom where to locate them?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI moved images from my harddrive to an external drive.
I opened Lightroom.
Noticed there was a question mark by the photo folder I needed.
I synchronized the folders. Nada.
I rememebered I moved the images (first line ^^)
I re-imported the images from the external drive into Lightroom.
These images (other than one that was marked previously with a blue label) look completely untouched - completely original files - even though I spent hours working on them.
I am glad the images weren't deleted BUT re-doing 600 images will be a MAJOR FAIL if I can't figure out how to import the images with the settings / developments I did beforehand.
I was in the process of moving a folder inside or LR. I might have clicked and moved it twice since it was very slow. LR wasn't able to complete the move and gave me an error message. After I clicked "OK" on the error message, I wasn't able to find my folder/images from the old or new location. I did a spotlight search on my mac, but I wasn't able to find them anywhere. Where has my folder/images gone? I tried to locate them without any success.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm a longtime LR user and just upgraded to LR4, but have one camera (Panasonic Lumix LX3) which LR import the raw images as bw. I can't figure out why?I've checked the import settings (import as DNG) (apply preset > None) etc. When I look in the History panel after import it just says the imported date, no indication of conversion to bw.
Obviously I can just convert them back to color in the develop panel but I don't understand why this is happening, and with only this camera's files (my Canons all import as normal)?
We are getting loads of RAW files together with xmp files from our photographers and then do a central post production on them. Our photographers are requested to add certain information into the metadata fields by using lightroom.So they add (by using a template or by doing it manually) certain information for each image - e.g. ratings.
Then they upload all the images together with the xmp files - we do get 2 files per image.If we download e.g. an raw image together with that xmp file and store on our disk and then start LR4.4 to do some further work, the metadata fields are not set. (if we use however a text editor) to look into the xmp file then the requested information is there.
If we now simply download the provided xmp again, LR detects a change in the metadata fields and reminds us on that. By clicking on "read metadata from file", we can then see the correct metadata information.So it looks by just downloading a pair of files (raw and xmp) and then import into lightroom , the xmp file is either NOT read at all or only partly. (i believe the first)
Any way to force LR to read in and apply the metadata from an existing xmp on import ?
some more information:
- LR5 Beta behaves the same way
- some photographers add owner/copyright information into the camera (e.g. by using eosutility in the canon case) - this is stored in the raw (cr2 for canon) file and lightroom does show this information correctly
- i only need to open the xmp file in an editor and save - then LR detects changed/updated metadata information and displays the little arrow which then allows to read/import the metadata information from the file - and then all is fine and the information from the xml file is shown in LR.
Here is the workflow:
- photographer imports images into their local lightroom and do some modifications - mainly add metadata information
- photographers provide the cr2(nef) files together with the xmp files to us (upload)
- we download and import the files into LR and rework them and finally export to jpeg including metadata - !!! if LR does not correctly use the provided metadata information from the xml file during import then we end up with jpegs including incorrect/missing metadata
- we publish the jpegs to sell them and the websoftware does provide certain features or not, depending on the metadata (which is wrong in these cases)
- we only recognize the problen then and have a lot of work to recreate correct jpegs with correct metadata files
I am importing RAW files using LR4. Some images come up blank, from the same CF card, when other appear perfectly. These can be seen when viewed on the camera.
Locating the images through the '?' icon achieves nothing.
i just noticed that i have some images, jpg and tiff, which are shown to have SIDECAR FILES in the EXFIPTC metadata display.
These files have many dates, some more than 20 years old and shot on film and scanned on nikon slide scanner. Actually, the images in question were NEVER raw files..
i do not remember how i may have done this. i have used LR from the beginning and so i am certain that at some time i checked the wrong box.
i cannot seem to find those which have sidecar files by searching, even using ANY FILTER plug-in (although i am not certain i have used it correctly).
Can i find these sidecar files? perhaps there will be some clue as to why they are there.
i have added a sentence noting that these files were never raw files.
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