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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: gchappel on March 06, 2019, 08:00:53 am
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As I put my toe in the retirement waters, I am looking back through older works.
I started using lightroom in 2009- and the catalog and metadata search functions have been terrific for my searches.
I have 10,000++ images from before 2009. These are all in dated folders- a separate master folder for each year, and under that a separate folder for each shoot date. I would like to import all these images into a new catalog- so I can do metadata searches.
Is there an easy way to import these in bulk, or do I have to open hundreds, possibly a thousand or more, individual dated folders to import the images?
I tried google searches with no luck- any ideas here?
Thanks in advance.
Gary
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https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/complete-guide-importing-photos-lightroom/
See the section: Importing your existing photo library.
Does this help?
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As I put my toe in the retirement waters, I am looking back through older works.
I started using lightroom in 2009- and the catalog and metadata search functions have been terrific for my searches.
I have 10,000++ images from before 2009. These are all in dated folders- a separate master folder for each year, and under that a separate folder for each shoot date. I would like to import all these images into a new catalog- so I can do metadata searches.
Is there an easy way to import these in bulk, or do I have to open hundreds, possibly a thousand or more, individual dated folders to import the images?
I tried google searches with no luck- any ideas here?
Thanks in advance.
Gary
Just open the normal import window select the root directory of your file structure, make sure include sub-folders is clicked and import at current location. Find something else to do while Lightroom builds thousands of pre-views. :o
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Thanks!!
That did it, I did not see the include subfolder option.
Gary