Lightroom Folders Panel
I find a lot of people are either confused or just plain unsure of what functions you can carry out in the Lightroom folders panel.
All Lightroom users should be familiar with the perennial problem of missing files, folders or drives from their Lightroom Catalogue, as indicated by the “!” exclamation mark in the top right corner of their image thumbnails.
Adobe really hack me off – for ages Lightroom indicated “missing” files with a question mark on the thumbnail. But in their infinite wisdom they changed that to an exclamation mark (of course, still keeping the question mark in the Folders Panel!) just to confuse the bejesus out of everyone. So now we have TWO TYPES of exclamation mark, each with a different meaning – nice one chaps……………….
With the exception of disconnected drives, missing files and folders are usually the result of moving files and folders via Windows Explorer on PC or Finder on the Mac.
And I find that in the majority of cases folk are just simply unaware that the same operations can be carried out within Lightroom via the Lightroom Folders Panel.
- We can move files between folders.
- We can move folders between drives.
- And we can create new hierarchical folder structures on any attached drive.
All with the added bonuses of:
- Not leaving the Lightroom GUI.
- Lightroom does NOT loose the file/folder locations, so we avoid the dreaded “!” problem!
So I have created a couple of video lessons on YouTube:
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Hopefully these two short lessons will enable you to understand the folder structure and placement options available to you via the Lightroom Folders Panel.
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