Comments on: Moving Folders with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

By: David Marx

David Marx — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:56:55 +0000

Dear Evet Loewen,

I am afraid that I can’t be of much help on this one. Apologies, without being able to see your drive its hard to know why this happening. It would seem like the drive is functioning properly if it will read and write the jpegs. The question I would ask is how are you trying to move the files– using just the Windows operating system or are you trying to make this move from within Lightroom?

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David Marx

By: Evet Loewen

Evet Loewen — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:47:51 +0000

I am moving photos in LR 3 from one external harddrive to a Drobo, as I have a bunch of photos spread across several external hard drives. Everything was going swimmingly with jpegs, but when I get to moving my RAW files, it is a total no go. It simply says that there is an error moving the files to the selected location, even if I just attempt to move one image at a time.

Without the tutorial I wouldn’t have even gotten this far! I am on a PC. The Drobo is hooked up to the computer by a USB 2.0 because that is what this older HP supports.

By: f.t.

f.t. — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:19:38 +0000

I hope newer versions of a Lightroom will support this feature (yes, I have to use “Find Missing Folders” again again today).

David, thank you for your support!

By: David Marx

David Marx — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:21:15 +0000

Dear F.T.,

If 2007 and 2009 are parent folders, meaning that they contain sub-folders full of images, then you can move them and use the “Find Missing Folders” command to reconnect the parent and all of it’s sub-folders in a single move. If, on the other hand, your 2007 image folders are not contained by any parent folder then you will have to use the “Find Missing Folders” command again and again. It is tedious but not difficult work…

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David Marx

By: f.t.

f.t. — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:52:53 +0000

Hi David,

However there is still problem. If I move several folders (even at the operating system level), then I should do “Find Missing Folders” command for each folder? In the video, you move ONE parent folder. But what if I want move only, say, 2007 and 2009 at once?

Thanks.

By: David Marx

David Marx — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:56:30 +0000

Dear f.t.,

I would not recommend the “Export As Catalog” command for this task. Export as Catalog is designed to mimic your existing folder structure. Plus, it does not remove the existing reference points from your Catalog which often leads to needless confusion.

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David Marx

By: David Marx

David Marx — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:54:50 +0000

Dear f.t.,

Moving one folder at a time using drag and drop inside of the Library Module’s Folder Panel is a known limitation to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom version 3. Perhaps that will change in future releases. You might find it more efficient to move your folders at the operating system level and then use Photoshop Lightroom Find Missing Folders Command to reconnect them with your index. The second video in this tutorial demonstrates this technique.

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David Marx

By: f.t.

f.t. — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:14:16 +0000

When you want to export several folders into one distinct catalog, it exports only one of the selected folders. A little bit funny

By: f.t.

f.t. — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:11:37 +0000

The same problem when exporting a bunch of folders as a new catalog.

By: f.t.

f.t. — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:52:36 +0000

How can I move a bunch of folders inside Lightroom from one folder to another? Lightroom lets me move only ONE folder at once. It makes me have to drag-n-drop EACH folder instead of a bunch.