Timeline for Can Lightroom facilitate the consolidation of 2 external drives to a third?
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| Apr 25, 2014 at 18:28 | comment | added | kacalapy | my existing hierarchy is full of photos and junk (emails, databases, word, excel, applications) i want to move only images and videos without the junk into a new drive designated to house a clean slate for my resources. minus all the other junk | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 18:07 | comment | added | tenmiles | Think of DNG as a vendor agnostic RAW format; in this context it doesn't matter if you use DNG or not. What I would do (and did) was import your hierarchy as it is, then create a new one that is in the new format and move images over within LR. As you empty folders, delete them until they're all gone. Alternatively, you could set the destination of the import(s) to one folder. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | kacalapy | yes, it seems LR can help but im not sure how to perform the task inside lightroom. Do i use DNG? In Library module what setting do I want to set for clean import of folders from cluttered drive to new folder of my clean drive | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 16:50 | history | answered | tenmiles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |