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01/05/2012 03:50:29 AM · #1 |
I thought I had followed instructions clearly before (From another website) but found that I must not have (I never double-checked).
I put all my pictures on another drive (RAW files) and then formatted the drive). I wanted to keep the pictures on that new drive and use that drive FOR all my future photos. However, I see now that when importing photos it goes into My Pictures/(date). I want them to go to my other drive but don't know how to direct future downloads to that drive or how to move my current photos to that drive.
I'm mixing up photos with catalogs as which is getting confusing. Not sure what to do to get things organized. I want to combine the all into one catalog and then have all future files import to that drive.
Did I make any sense in what I posted? If not, let me know... |
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01/05/2012 04:41:21 AM · #2 |
I dont know if this helps:
There are a lot of ways to do this, but I've found the hardest—at least for me—is to use the question mark icon that appears next to a missing file in grid view. The easiest is to simply right-click the folder in the Library view and use the "Locate Missing Folder" menu item.
This makes the process of relocating your image files easy. Too bad it took me more than a few tries at it before I discovered this little gem in the contextual menu. Now that I've found it, it'll be getting a bunch of use in the next few weeks as I migrate to my next Library setup. After, of course, figuring out what solution I'm going to buy into. But that's next week's job. First, there's a few thousand pictures to sort through, rank, develop, export, and deliver to my clients.
from: //blogs.oreilly.com/lightroom/2007/06/changing-the-location-of-your.html |
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01/05/2012 07:40:01 AM · #3 |
I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what your trying to do, Walk me through the process.
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01/05/2012 08:00:10 AM · #4 |
Right now, when I put new photos from the camera to the PC, the RAW files are put into the C:\Libraries\Pictures\(folder date).
I want them to go onto my G:\ drive from now on. AND I want to put all the current RAW files in my C:\Libraries\Pictures\(folder date) folder to the folder on the G:\ drive. |
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01/05/2012 08:05:48 AM · #5 |
okay, the way I do this is either put the card in the computer or hook up my USB cord and then open that camera/card up using "my computer". Then open up another folder using "my computer" where in your case it would be your G drive and the folder that you want to place your photos in.
Then just select all the photos you wish to move over and cut them (CTRL+X)from the camera/card and paste them into the new G:/foldername (CTRL+V)
Do it this way, it will save you some time and the headache later. Then just import that folder into LR3. You could even tell LR3 to watch that folder for new images and it would auto update as soon as it saw new files.
Message edited by author 2012-01-05 08:07:19.
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01/05/2012 09:50:35 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by heavyj:
Right now, when I put new photos from the camera to the PC, the RAW files are put into the C:\Libraries\Pictures\(folder date).
I want them to go onto my G:\ drive from now on. AND I want to put all the current RAW files in my C:\Libraries\Pictures\(folder date) folder to the folder on the G:\ drive. |
On the import dialog - bottom right of the screen.... change where you want them.
To move the others - point LT at the folder in the import and say move from old location (or copy and then manually delete). |
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