My basic file system: Folders = YYYY-Master for values of YYYY from 2002 to 2024. Subfolders are yyyy - 01Jan, yyyy - 02Feb, etc. I use a similar approach for image naming, renaming on import to yyyymmdd-NNxxxxx.dng, building onto the in-camera naming sequence preceded by a camera designator such as K1a, K1b, 645Z...
Space permitting, current year and previous year reside on my internal drive. Whenever I do a major import or editing session, I copy the YYYY-Master to a YYYY-Copy x, Copy x+1, etc. folder on 1 or two hard drives. If I go on a trip, current and prior year’s YYYY-Copy x+1 is copied to a 2 TB SSD to take along, both for en route backups from the laptop, but also in case I want to go back into something from a few months ago. Back home, I copy from the SSD to my internal drive in the appropriate YYYY- month folder(s) and then in LR I point at those and have LR Synch. When I take pictures around home, I import via LR directly to my internal drive in the appropriate month’s directory. For me, I found that using named folders (e.g., Birds, Water Falls, baseball, …) led me down too many rabbit holes, and I keep my folders by date. All other cataloging is done first via key wording on import, modified/extended key wording during review/editing, and then Catalogs for gathering images of some category or another. Annual favorites, Selections from November trip, Macro Flowers, … When I am working on a photo book, I drop selected images into catalogs/sub-catalogs in my preliminary preparation phase. One exception to my rule about sticking to YYYY folders: I do have a folder on my internal drive labeled Current Exports. Basically temporary storage for images to post as a PESO, GESO, on FB, or send in an email to friends. Such images typically have been given a reasonably high star rating in LR. I can easily delete or lose the Current Export images and re-locate them within LR by doing a screen by ratings. In your work flow, you mention “moving directories” from one place to another. Are you using the OS to do this? Or are you doing this within LR? Stan > On Jan 2, 2024, at 1:34 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 2, 2024, at 8:17 AM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> >> wrote: >> >> Like Godfrey, I have not seen this behavior in LR. > > Do your files go directly to their final resting place? Or do you have an > intermediate location on a fast drive for them? It is when I move > directories from one drive to another that this happens. > >> I just looked, I right-clicked on some of my Folder and Drive names in the >> list, played a bit with the options such as Hide this Parent or Show Parent >> Folder… >> Those are possibly the settings that Godfrey suggested you might be looking >> for. >> Stan >> >>> On Jan 1, 2024, at 11:55 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm running Lightroom Classic 13. Over on the left side there is a >>> "Folders" panel, with the highest level of hierarchy being the hard drives. >>> I've got three drives Mac SSD, photo_ba, and photo_bb. The problem is that >>> whenever I change something on one of the drives, it's position in the >>> panel moves to the top. So, while I'm going through, cleaning up my >>> catalog, moving folders from the primary drive to the longer term storage, >>> the order of the drives in the panel keeps shifting around. My google fu >>> is just not strong enough to figure out how to get it to JUST STOP THAT. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Larry Colen >>> l...@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood >>> >>> >>> -- >>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
