HI there I am on a trial of Lightroom and loving it so far.?One seemingly simple task I would like to try out is moving all my RAW files (which are all mixed up with JPGs and PSDs to a new location and keep the current folder structure.
Currently I have files strcutured like this: %26lt;main disk%26gt;\%26lt;year%26gt;\%26lt;month%26gt;\%26lt;filename%26gt;.cr2 and I would like to move these to %26lt;different disk%26gt;\%26lt;year%26gt;\%26lt;month%26gt;\%26lt;filename%26gt;.cr2
The Export functions look as if they will put them all in to one big folder??Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance.
How do I move photos in a Smart...There are several approaches to this problem. You could do this via the Folders panel in LR. You can do just about everything in the Folders panel that you can do in Explorer or Finder. Just create folder and drag and drop.
Another way is to do this outside LR use Explorer (Windows) or FInder (Mac). after you're done then go back into LR and tell LR where to find the moved files. Depending on how many you have this could be a bit tedious.
Another method is to choose the files you want then Export them as a Catalog. When you do this be sure to include the option to export the negatives. Point the new catalog at you other drive. It will recreate the folder structure during the export. Then remove the images from your present catalog. Don't delete from disk just remove. Now import from catalog and choose the newly exported catalog. This time choose the option to add the files without moving them. Once you are sure everything is back and is fine you can use Explorer or Finder to go into your original file structure and delete the files that were moved to the new drive.?Be careful to only choose the moved files. If you are separating the RAWs out this should be relatively easy.
I hope that helps!
How do I move photos in a Smart...Hi Gene.?Thanks so much for your quick reply.?I should have mentioned There are 6000 RAW files in about 500 folders that I want to move.?This renders your first 2 solutions useless.?Your final solution was spot on though - I didn't realise that exporting to catalogue would keep my directory structure.?So as I speak Lightroom is churning through my files doing exactly what I want*.?So thanks very much for the help - considert his question answered!
* One thing I have noticed is that a couple of jpgs have crept into the newly created folders.?Not a big problem but strange.?The Smart Collection I am exporting is correct (filetype = RAW).?The jpgs are definitely standard JPG (ie not RAWs with the wrong extension).?Again not a problem just a suprising mistake by LR.
Yes. With 6,000 images in 500 folders a catalog export is the way to go.
Interesting that the JPEGs snuck in. Probably just a hiccup since LR is usually good about its filtering algorithms.
Good luck!
I have worked out the rogue JPGs.?Even with the Smart Collection set to display just RAW it is displaying some images that are listed as ''%26lt;filename%26gt;.CR2+JPG''.?In explorer the file is 2 separate files one that is RAW and one that is JPG.?For some reason it is diplaying them as merged in lightroom and therefore they (the JPGs) are being included in the export.?I did notice in the preferences for Import an option ''Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos''.?This is not ticked by default therefore I guess this needs to be ticked and a new imported done
I have further investigated and it is something to do with ''Side Car Files'' - whatever that is!
When you set your camera to shoot RAW+JPEG every press of the shutter records a RAW file and a JPEG file. The names are identical but the extensions differ. This option allows you to choose whether you want to see them as separate files or not.
The sidecar file reference is about the .XMP file. Since you cannot write to a proprietary RAW file format all changes are written to the .XMP file (or sidecar file). So if you have_IMG223.CR2 in your catalog when you make a change it gets recorded in _IMG223.XMP. Changes to a JPEG, however, are written to the file directly. To avoid the whole sidecar issue I regularly convert my proprietary RAW formats to DNG which can have the data written to it.
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