![]() If for some reason you don’t want to import those photos, just click the Uncheck All button first, then click Import to bring just the folder in by itself. Click the Import button to bring those photos in. If the folder you selected already contains photos, then Lightroom will open the Import dialog and allow you to import them as well. Once the new folder is selected, click OK on Windows or Choose on Mac. ![]() On Windows, click the Make New Folder button. If you haven’t created the folder, then use that dialog to create a new folder. If you’ve already created a folder on that drive outside of Lightroom, you can just select it now. This will launch the Browse For Folder dialog on Windows or the Choose or Create New Folder dialog on Mac. Click the plus-arrow icon at the top of the Folders panel and choose Add Folder. Here’s how to add a new top-level folder on a new drive: This will also make it much easier to use Lightroom to move folders and photos from one drive to another (such as when your current disk starts bursting at the seams from too many photos). Adding top-level folders was always trickier in Lightroom 1 than it needed to be, so this is a welcome change. ![]() Lightroom 2 has made it easier to add new top-level folders and sub-folders from the Folders panel. It was a real limitation to only be able to move one folder at a time in previous versions of Lightroom, so this is a very welcome change! New in Lightroom 4: A favorite new feature in Lightroom 4 (and above) is the ability to select multiple folders in the Folders panel and move them all at once. Lightroom will again ask you if you really want to do that, so click the Move button to proceed. Just select the folder in the Folders panel and drag it into the new destination folder. You can move one folder into another folder in the same fashion. Lightroom will then move the photos to the new folder and update its catalog to reflect this change. You could check the “Don’t show again” box, but I’d leave it unchecked as a precaution against accidental moves. Click the Move button to continue the operation. The first time you do this, Lightroom will display a confirmation dialog asking if you really want to do this. Once you move the cursor over the destination folder and it appears highlighted, you can release the mouse to drop the photos into that folder. If you have multiple photos selected, you will see multiple thumbnails in the icon (this is a great clue if you’ve accidentally selected more than one photo). As soon as you start to click and drag, you will notice the cursor changes to a hand and thumbnail icon. Click on one selected thumbnail and drag it to the desired destination folder. You can select all by pressing Ctrl+A (Cmd+A on Mac). ![]() You can select multiple photos by holding the Ctrl (or Cmd on Mac) key and click each photo. Select the photo or photos by clicking their thumbnails. ![]() Click on the folder containing the photos you want to move. The most basic move operation is to move one or more photos from one folder to another folder that is already in Lightroom. To create copies of photos, you must use the Export dialog to export copies to the folder of your choice. One important note is that Lightroom can only move photos from folder to folder. Expand the Folders panel and you are ready to start moving. To jump to Grid view from anywhere in Lightroom, just press G. It all happens in the Folders panel and Grid view in the Library module. There have been some changes to the functionality for creating new folders in Lightroom 2 (and above) that make this process easier than in Lightroom 1. It’s also a fundamental task that should only be performed from within Lightroom in order to maintain the connection between the Lightroom catalog and the imported photos. Creating new folders and moving photos from folder to folder is a fundamental aspect of file management. ![]()
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