What Tina said!
To expand a little, though - once LR has your images "catalogued", it knows
in which file/folder the master image resides (you determined that when
importing the images at the outset). You may later wish to move the files to
a different folder or drive. DO NOT DO THAT OUTSDIE LR! LR offers, in the
catalogue view, the folder and drive structure of your PC, and you can very
easily drag the image thumbnail(s) in the catalogue view to the folder and
drive to where you want to move the image(s). You want them in
Z:/abc/def/ghi/subfolder? Open up the Z drive in LR's drive/folder hierarchy
so that your chosen destination folder is open, and drag the thumbnails to
that folder. You do not need to know the original location of the images
(remember, that is what LR is for!), just where you want to put them, and by
doing it within LR, you don't have a problem with LR no longer knowing where
they are.
And that said, it might be best to do the re-arranging before you commission
the new PC.
Piers
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From: olympus
[mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tina Manley
Sent: 10 January 2017 14:51
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom
You move them within LR. Otherwise, you can right click on the folders you
have changed and choose Synchronize Folder.
Tina
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Wayne Harridge <
wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have query about the LR catalogue/database.
>
> How do you cope with the situation where all your image files (.ORF, .NEF,
> .JPG, etc.) are stored outside the catalogue in your own file structure
> then you get a new PC and decide to consolidate those image files
> (previously stored on different drives) onto a different drive
> configuration ? Is there some way you can re-reference the pointers in
the
> catalogue to the new file locations without having to re-index your images
?
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+wayne.harridge=structuregraphs.com@
> thomasclausen.net] On Behalf Of Piers Hemy
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2017 5:56 AM
> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion' <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom
>
> Jim, STOP!
>
> In this respect, you have missed the single biggest advantage of LR (which
> is, as far as I am aware, unique to LR). IT isn't just an image editor, it
> is an image management database too. You do not need to change any of your
> existing file structure, just leave your images where they are ("import"
> them into LR so as to give LR the information it needs to find them, of
> course) and then start to use LR keywords to classify the images. By all
> means use Family, Little League, Airport, Skydiving, Pretty, Boys, Girls
in
> as many combinations as you please for each image. The beauty of this
> approach is that it is infinitely flexible and can be modified, expanded,
> developed as your needs evolve. And unlike a classification using the PC
> file/folder structure, it is multi-dimensional. You are not forced to
> choose whether a given image is an "Airport" image or a "Pretty Girl"
image
> - give that image all three keywords, and you can later search for images
> meeting the "Pretty" and "Girl" criteria.
> Or "Airport" and "Girl". Or...
>
> This is certainly not the time to start restructuring your hierarchy of
> files and folders - use LR to its most advantage!
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@thomasclausen.
> net] On Behalf Of Jim Nichols
> Sent: 06 January 2017 16:45
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom
>
> Thanks for sharing your insights, Philippe. I am getting ready to attempt
> to select a file structure that fits my picture taking habits, i.e.,
> Family, Little League, Airport, Skydiving, maybe even Pretty Girls. :-)
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 1/6/2017 2:25 AM, Philippe wrote:
> > Three steps
> >
> > I often rename e.g. 2016-Xmas-file nb - LR can do that
> > semi-automatically, just type in the prefix and let the file
> > number - there are other options but I like this one best
> >
> > I let LR create its folders the way it wants, by dates, and find it
> > convenient since it works fine - the itch is when you have several
> > cameras not all set to the accurate date and time - but this issue can
> > also be addressed after the upload, automatically (how do I know? I
> > edited the photos from a dozen not-synchronized cameras when I last
> > got married )
> >
> > And most importantly, you can, should, must use keywords on import -
> e.g. " holidays, Portugal, Sintra . Thus, whatever the date, I can find
> all the photos I shot In Portugal in a second, whatever the day they were
> shot, or restrict my quest to a specific place, Sintra, etc.
> >
> > In any case, the camera used will be recorded too, and it may sometimes
> be useful to make a query this way too.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Amities
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> >> Le 6 janv. 2017 02:41, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a crit
> :
> >>
> >> One of the tutorials I watched this afternoon made a point of
> explaining that a three-day assignment, with files split into three
folders
> by date, was a bad thing. He always used a subject name instead of date.
> To each his own. :-D
> >>
> >> Jim Nichols
> >> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>
> >> On 1/5/2017 7:32 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> >>> Correction. The directory dates are not based on import date, but
> >>> file date. So if you shoot over a three day period of time, when you
> >>> import them, Lightroom will sort them into three directories. If you
> >>> want, of course.
> >>>
> >>> This is a good thing, Martha. Unless, of course, you have a camera
> >>> that the clock resets itself to some crazy date like 6/1/2077. Don't
> >>> ask my how I know that.
> >>>
> >>> AG Schnozz
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