Lightroom

[James Gray]

 I hope I can explain this.  I have a folder on my computer called "Main Photo", where the photos in my Lightroom catalogue point to.  I have other "backup folders" that contain copies of some of the images in "Main Photo".  One folder (originals) basically contains just the original raw files and the original SOOC jpeg.  None of these in the originals folder should, in principle, be pointed to by the LR catalog because they are duplicates of what are in the Main Photos folder.  However, in many cases (thousands), LR points to the copy in the originals folder instead of the Main Photo folder.  I am sure I know how this happened.  I did not implement the LR catalogue until early 2020.  I got some help from a club member in "importing in place" thousands of image files.  At the time, I was not sure every image in the originals folder was in "Main  Photo".  It took a long time for LR to import in place all of the image files in Main Photo.  So it would not take so long, we started "importing in place" other folders, knowing LR would try not to import duplicates.  (I will add that my image files shot before 2013 were not well organized as described above.)  Running multiple "import in place" jobs at the same time didn't work as well as we had hoped.  Now I would like to have LR change the pointers to image files in the originals folder so they point to the copy in "Main Photo".  I can do this one sub-folder in originals at a time by removing from LR the image in originals, then importing in place the corresponding folder in Main Photo.  This rocess wil take a very long time as I go through the many folders of images from 2012 to 2020.

The question I have is this.  Is there a faster way to do this than me manually going through every sub-folder in the originals folder and removing the images from LR, and then going to Main Photo and importing in place?

Jim Gray

[Colin Barnett]

You probably already know this (and I'm not sure this will answer your question), but if you move files while inside of lightroom, you won't need to re-import them. You can select files, then drop them into the correct folder in the left hand panel. When you move a file inside of LR, LR will know where you put them. You'll still have to manually move each photo.

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[James Gray]

To be clear, I am not moving image files.  I have copies of the same image in 2 folders. 

In a subfile under Main Photo, I have image DSC1111.ARW.  Call it A.

In a subfile under Originals, I have a copy of DSC1111.ARW.  Call it A'.

In the problem instances, LR points to A'.  I want LR to point to A.  I do not want to physically move A' to Main Photo.  I just want to import in place A so LR points to A instead of copy A'.

I have an idea that may be a field of land mines.  Main Photo and Originals are on different external hard drives.  If I took Originals offline, then there would be a lot of missing files in LR.  How easy would it be to tell LR to remove all of those missing files?  If that could work, there would be several ways of importing the copies that now reside on Main Photo. 

Jim

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