Comments on: Tutorial: Moving Folders and Photos in Lightroom 2

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:25:53 +0000

Hi Steve, Select and click File > Export. Designate the desired folder on the C drive as the destination. Configure other settings as desired.

By: Steve Bilbrough

Steve Bilbrough — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:37:57 +0000

I developed a picture that I imported into Lightroom 2 – now – how do I save it into my My Pictures sub-folder on my C drive?

Thanks … Steve

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:32:34 +0000

Well, you need to have a destination folder in the Folders panel on that drive to move the other folders into. Lightroom isn’t a file browser, so the only thing that will show in the Folders panel are imported folders.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:30:47 +0000

Hi Rob (great name BTW!), unfortunately when moving folders in Lightroom you can only select one at a time and move. This will move all photos and subfolders inside that folder, but you can only select one at a time.

The alternative would be to move the folders outside of Lightroom and then reconnect them after they go missing:

http://lightroomers.com/tutorial-reconnecting-folders-and-photos-in-lightroom-2/114/

But it sounds more like you are wanting to export the catalog and photos to the other computer, no?

http://www.peachpit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=lightroom&seqNum=13

By: rob c

rob c — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:28:35 +0000

hi rob,
i have different folders in different hd. When i m on shooting trips, i do use my laptop. then when i m back i have a server disk where i store my raws.

My question is. How can i move more than one folder . i did often try to selec multiple folders but i do always end up moving them one by one. Is there any trick to do so ?

thks ! .r.

By: Erol

Erol — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:04:49 +0000

Hi Rob,

got all the points above except one. I want to move all my pics to another external HD without creating a new folder on the ext. HD. So in this case I connect the HD and add the whole drive a a new folder? Afterwards i just move all folders within the folder panel to the new HD?

By: Chuck Pefley

Chuck Pefley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:39:50 +0000

Hi Rob,
Thanks for your clarification. If I’d taken the time to test the moving of images/folders myself “before” I made my comment I would have discovered for myslef that everything moved via LR. -:)

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:16:03 +0000

Hi Chuck, No, when you move photos with Lightroom the photo is removed from the source folder and placed in the destination folder. Nothing left to clean up after.

By: Chuck Pefley

Chuck Pefley — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:56 +0000

I presume that new copies are made of photos or folders moved from one disk onto another disk? Lightroom fie tree will point to the moved copy, but I assume the originals are still in place on the original drive. So … if you want two copies, fine. But, if your wish is to free space on your boot drive, then those duplicates will need to be deleted.

Please correct me if the above is in error.

Regards,
Chuck

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:27:12 +0000

Yes. You can move one folder at a time from within Lightroom (or if it is one folder with multiple subfolders you can move the parent folder and all the subfolders will move as well). See the section of this tutorial under “Adding Folders” for the steps.