[Leica] Lightroom and folders

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Daniel,
sounds like you didn't run 'synchronize' on the directory in which you 
created "2008"
Maybe this may help
Cheers
Douglas

Daniel Ridings wrote:
> Lightroom must have been designed for an Apple. It seems to assume
> that you do not know what you want to do, so even if you use the menus
> to ask it to do something, it won't.
>
> I have organized my library by year and month.
>
> 2007
> -01Jan07
> -02Feb07
>
> etc etc.
>
> Now I created a folder, using the menus in Lightroom, called 2008.
>
> Then I created a folder, using the menus in Lightroom, called 01Jan08
>
> Then I chose 01Jan08, which is inside 2008, as the folder to import my 
> card to.
>
> I used Lightroom to navigate there.
>
> But ...
>
> On my library overview, there is no 2008. There is 2004, 2005, 2006,
> 2007 all organized the way I described above, but then there is
> 01Jan08 on the same level as the years (2004, ... 2007). 2008 doesn't
> show it.
>
> I go into the Lightroom library using the command-line, and sure
> enough, 2008 is there and 01Jan08 is embedded within 2008. The
> structure on the disk is ok, but that structure is not reflected in
> the library view in Lightroom.
>
> I am guessing that the other years were ok because they were created
> >from similar structures on my harddisk. My scans were organized in the
> same way as I am trying to organize my Lighroom archive.
>
> I used to say that they only reason I still use Windows for about 1%
> of my work instead of Linux was because of Photoshop. The GIMP in
> Linux is like using Photoshop 5.5 (8-bit editing).
>
> But now with Lightzone (http://www.lightcrafts.com) available on Linux
> ... I am just about ready to toss out Windows and Photoshop
> altogether. It is costing me too much money in terms of time. Before
> only Windows was flaky. Now Photoshop has really joined the ranks of
> alpha-grade applications being panhandled as prime time editions.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get 2008 to show up in my Library view? I
> can't create a folder called 2008 and move 01Jan08 into it because
> 2008 is already there. You just can't see it.
>
> Daniel
>
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