[Leica] Lightroom and folders

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

It might.

This is appearing to work.

1) Import into the very root
2) Ask the import to organize everything into one folder (2008)
3) After that is done, create a sub-folder under 2008 called 01Jan08
4) Then move your newly imported files from wherever they landed to 01Jan08

I think I managed this the other years by checking the box for
retaining the original folder names or something.

There doesn't appear to be any connection between what you do by means
of the menus and what you end up with.

Is this a side-effect of the way Lightroom works that Brian Reid
described? Is thay why you need to press "Yes, I really did do that,
will you please wake up and acknowledge the fact?" (performing the
resynchronize that you suggest) ?

This is some wierd stuff.

Daniel


On Jan 21, 2008 10:03 AM, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:
> Daniel,
> sounds like you didn't run 'synchronize' on the directory in which you
> created "2008"
> Maybe this may help
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
> Daniel Ridings wrote:
> > Lightroom must have been designed for an Apple. It seems to assume
> > that you do not know what you want to do, so even if you use the menus
> > to ask it to do something, it won't.
> >
> > I have organized my library by year and month.
> >
> > 2007
> > -01Jan07
> > -02Feb07
> >
> > etc etc.
> >
> > Now I created a folder, using the menus in Lightroom, called 2008.
> >
> > Then I created a folder, using the menus in Lightroom, called 01Jan08
> >
> > Then I chose 01Jan08, which is inside 2008, as the folder to import my 
> > card to.
> >
> > I used Lightroom to navigate there.
> >
> > But ...
> >
> > On my library overview, there is no 2008. There is 2004, 2005, 2006,
> > 2007 all organized the way I described above, but then there is
> > 01Jan08 on the same level as the years (2004, ... 2007). 2008 doesn't
> > show it.
> >
> > I go into the Lightroom library using the command-line, and sure
> > enough, 2008 is there and 01Jan08 is embedded within 2008. The
> > structure on the disk is ok, but that structure is not reflected in
> > the library view in Lightroom.
> >
> > I am guessing that the other years were ok because they were created
> > >from similar structures on my harddisk. My scans were organized in the
> > same way as I am trying to organize my Lighroom archive.
> >
> > I used to say that they only reason I still use Windows for about 1%
> > of my work instead of Linux was because of Photoshop. The GIMP in
> > Linux is like using Photoshop 5.5 (8-bit editing).
> >
> > But now with Lightzone (http://www.lightcrafts.com) available on Linux
> > ... I am just about ready to toss out Windows and Photoshop
> > altogether. It is costing me too much money in terms of time. Before
> > only Windows was flaky. Now Photoshop has really joined the ranks of
> > alpha-grade applications being panhandled as prime time editions.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can get 2008 to show up in my Library view? I
> > can't create a folder called 2008 and move 01Jan08 into it because
> > 2008 is already there. You just can't see it.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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