2 Lightroom Questions

Question 2. I have lightroom folders organised by date, e.g. yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd. On my laptop I keep the current years photos. I have an archive drive that keeps the previous years folders. However, I have found some old cards and drives and imported these, and they have gone onto my laptop as expected. But I now have 2 folders for 2010 - one on my laptop and one on my archive drive. Is it possible to photos from my laptop to the archive drive automatically to the correct folder, or do I need to move them manually?

Question 2. I import some photos from the camera roll on my iPad into lightroom mobile. These pictures then appear in the library on my laptop under iPad > imported photos. Is it then possible to import these into my folder structure (organised by dates), or do I need to drag them one by one into the correct folder?

I'm having similar issues.
Question 2a I believe you could have imported them to your external drive at the point of import by specifying the destination. Now its drag & drop time. The folders will merge but existing files will not be moved.

Question 2b I think this can be achieved by auto import. I don't use the darkside technology and don't use LRmobile. I have my cameraroll from android save to Onedrive (MS) which is set to auto import in LR. My issue is the folder structure is to precise giving daily folders rather the event folder i.e. the whole weekend, so I still end up with a bit of drag & dropping.

As a side note, I also use a NAS drive for my archives. This is ok but loading images is slow even with smart reviews. If I disconnect my wifi the images load faster as they are just using the smart previews. I wish I could 'disconnect' the nas drives in LR only.

If you have two 2010 folders, I would let Lightroom merge them on your laptop, so tat all the images reside in one single 2010 folder. If you then archive that folder onto your external drive you will have an exact copy of the laptops images. Now depending on how you archive, you, may need to generate a second folder on the external drive ( call it 2010a) archive to that then delete the original 2010 archive folder. If you use archiving software then it should update the folder with the new images automatically.

The second part is to simply import the images as you would do normally. This will give you two copies of those images. You can the decide to delete the iPad ones or leave them in place.

Peter69 said:

I'm having similar issues.
Question 2a I believe you could have imported them to your external drive at the point of import by specifying the destination. Now its drag & drop time. The folders will merge but existing files will not be moved.

Question 2b I think this can be achieved by auto import. I don't use the darkside technology and don't use LRmobile. I have my cameraroll from android save to Onedrive (MS) which is set to auto import in LR. My issue is the folder structure is to precise giving daily folders rather the event folder i.e. the whole weekend, so I still end up with a bit of drag & dropping.

As a side note, I also use a NAS drive for my archives. This is ok but loading images is slow even with smart reviews. If I disconnect my wifi the images load faster as they are just using the smart previews. I wish I could 'disconnect' the nas drives in LR only.

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I know that now only too painfully!

Ps I shall be in my garden in 20 minutes playing with the other solutions.

Hi Both, in the end I manually dragged the folders within lightroom as there were not that many, though would be interested in a more automated solution should I make the same mistake again. Chappers - you say "I would let Lightroom merge them on your laptop". How exactly would you have done that?

Regarding the lightroom mobile question. What are peoples preferred workflows to get the pictures out of LR mobile onto the desktop? I cannot see an option on the import dialogue to import from the cloud connected iPad?

PS I just realised my poor numbering on the first post, apologies!

Well following some further investigation, I can see no better method than drag and drop from the cloud collection into my folder structure....