newbie with lightroom import question

[nam]

I'm having a tough time getting LR 5.6 from importing Fuji XT1 files into a file it creates called "pictures" .

I'm importing from memory card to desktop folder, and have long been using that system with Canon, and LR would import

images into similarly named folders in LR.

When I try to do that with my new XT LR insists on putting imports into a new folder, rather

than using the set up I have.....and I have to drag images into the folder i created initially in LR to hold these....what am I missing?

 

thanks for any insights!

[addicted2light]

Pretty strange behavior.

 

The only thing I can think of if you have selected "Ignore folder names generated from the camera during import" (or something like that) selected in Preferences > General

[nam]

Nope. I don't have that checked- and oddly, am doing nothing different than when I would import from Canon.

I don't know if this helps, but I've attached two screen shots of what happens:  The first shows the LR screen when I select import, and choose the

testing file in Digipic2016 fuji where there are 3 new files (out of 8) to import.

The second screen shot is what LR did with the 3 new images- put them in "pictures" and didn't alter the Digipic testing fuji which still has 8.

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[addicted2light]

Sorry, I'm clueless at this point...

 

Maybe you could try to download the demo of version 6 and see if it gives you the same strange behavior. Or at least try creating a new, empty catalog and try if you can still replicate the problem.

 

Or you may try changing the destination in the "Import" screen (the lowest right section in the right column).

[idwilson]

You've hidden the critical bits of the import dialog! At the top there are three options: Add, Copy and Move. It looks like you're importing files in place (i.e. they already exist on disc, rather than coming from a memory card) In which case you need to choose the "Add" option. If you select the "Copy" option, another part of the dialog on the right hand side comes into play: namely the target location where the files will end up. By default, files are copied into "Pictures" on a Mac ("My Pictures" on a PC), and I suspect that this is what's happening. Check the options at the top and the right hand side, posting screen grabs if necessary, and I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this.

 

Ian.

 

 

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[nam]

Wow! thank you!!

that is exactly what happened. I don't know why the default went from Add to copy, since in the past Add has normally opened when I import, so I never thought to look at that.

Much appreciate your reply!