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01/04/2012 12:36:00 PM · #1 |
Hi folks.
I use lightroom to manage all my photos. I just plugged in an old hard drive that I store lots of old images in, and it had changed drive number. Due to how I organised the photos back then, I have about 100 folders that I need to relocate... which I don't particularily want to do. Does anyone know if there's a way to either change where the folder in lightroom points to? Or if there's a way to batch move all the images. I'm using LR2.
Danke, as always.
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01/04/2012 12:50:33 PM · #2 |
| I haven't used LR2 but it might be the same as LR3. You just right click on the top level of the missing folders and tell it to locate the missing folder, then provide the new location. It should link up all the old images and sub folders for you keeping all the edits and such. |
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01/04/2012 01:00:53 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by bhuge:
I haven't used LR2 but it might be the same as LR3. You just right click on the top level of the missing folders and tell it to locate the missing folder, then provide the new location. It should link up all the old images and sub folders for you keeping all the edits and such. |
Alas the top level isn't clickable. These daysbi have things segmented into years and months, so its east enough to migrate over if I need to. But these old ones I can't do like that. I might just have to do it manually, but tut means I might have to do it again another day :-/ I did it once before. Or I may update to lr3 and import.the old library and change it that way perhaps...
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01/04/2012 02:33:25 PM · #4 |
| I think LR3 has a 30 day trial, you could try to fix it up in LR3 and hope it back ports into LR2. Though I would bet it does something funky that stops the back port. |
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01/04/2012 02:54:52 PM · #5 |
| i use light room, but im not very efficient with its organization abilities. could you just create a new collection and re import them or does that lose your edits? |
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01/04/2012 03:29:51 PM · #6 |
You can point "import" to a set of folders and have it do all the work to move to the new location (and it will break open dates and stuff if you pick that option).
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If you want to keep the old ones where they are np - just add them at the new location. I do that a lot cause a single drive cannot hold enough images :-/ I put negs/slides on a different drive from digital e.t.c. |
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01/04/2012 03:30:56 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
i use light room, but im not very efficient with its organization abilities. could you just create a new collection and re import them or does that lose your edits? |
If you save the sidecar files, you can get those back. Just play around in a different set of folders with a few samples until you get what you want.... don't want to get it not where you want when you hit the big button :-) |
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01/04/2012 04:11:53 PM · #8 |
Not really a response to your issue per se, but I do think you should give Lr 3 a try, if for no other reason than that the RAW converter in Lr 3 is really a couple big steps forward. I can't imagine going back to Lr 2.x
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01/04/2012 06:43:15 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by bhuge:
I think LR3 has a 30 day trial, you could try to fix it up in LR3 and hope it back ports into LR2. Though I would bet it does something funky that stops the back port. |
As far as I understand, LR2 will not be able to access a DB in LR3 format. |
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01/04/2012 08:32:06 PM · #10 |
I think I'll try LR3. Was thinking it might be due an upgrade recently anyway.
I may go the sidecar route too. It would definitely future-proof the thing in some regards.
Thanks again.
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