Comments on: 10 More Things I Would Tell a New Lightroom User: #6

By: george

george — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 02:29:08 +0000

I will admit it took some doing to wrap my head around moving/arraigning things in Lr rather than using windows OS. Still learning thanks to people like you. Now, if I can get away from this c’puter and get some more shots……..

By: Joseph K

Joseph K — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 22:13:04 +0000

One thing to be careful about when moving files is that Lightroom is not a file browser. While LR does OK with small numbers of files, it can fall down when moving large numbers of files. In the case of large numbers of files to be moved, it is better and faster to move the folders using the OS tools Finder/Explorer then in Lightroom do a “relocate” or “find missing” on the top-most folder you moved.

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:29:28 +0000

In reply to Paul C. Happy to help!

By: Paul C

Paul C — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:47:02 +0000

Yep! Fell foul of this trap many times in the beginning. Now I always use this method described as it is so visual.

Don’t get caught out by the “Show photos in subfolders” confusion that took me a while to figure out when moving pictures into a subfolder they didn’t seem to leave the grid!

I would follow this by saying… once you’ve put stuff where you want it, close the folder pane & rely on collections, it is so much safer! Thanks Rob