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1. Re: Import workflow: should and can LR manage my folders as I previously have or is there a better way?
99jon Feb 15, 2014 11:27 PM (in response to MD Optofonik)I would recommend copying from your SD card to a folder on your external hard drive. For your hike and other projects use collections. Collections can contain photos from any number of folders. It’s simply metadata stored in the catalog database; so it takes up no extra space on your drive. If you add keywords as you import you have an additional search method, regardless of folders.
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2. Re: Import workflow: should and can LR manage my folders as I previously have or is there a better way?
dj_paige Feb 16, 2014 4:53 AM (in response to MD Optofonik)There is no reason why you can't keep intact some folder structure with regards to your first screen capture, as 99jon explained.
In particular, subject-based folders such as "Fire Lookout Photos for Pam" and "Adam & Ardis ..." and "Tree People" make sense if that's what you want, but in my opinion, keywords are also a good way to go and any folder structure you have should be supplemented by keywords.
But the idea of having folders for steps in the process (transfer and pre-edit and post-edit) doesn't really make sense in Lightroom, as there are other mechanisms to keep track of whether or not you have or have not edited a photo. So creating folders and moving photos into folders based upon where they are in the process is simply extra and unnecessary work. In fact, Lightroom will automatically indicate to you which photos have been edited and which photos have been not edited (in other words, this takes zero effort on your part).
Also, I hope you understand how Lightroom works, that when you finish editing a photo, the finished product does NOT exist as a separate file on your hard dirve. There is no need to place this into a different folder to indicate it has been edited, since there is no separate file!
Thus, in conclusion, subject-based folders make sense in Lightroom, process-based folders are usually unnecessary and extra work.


