Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 104)

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Managing catalogs and files
Last updated 4/20/2015
2 Do one of the following:
• (Windows) In the Browse For Folders dialog box, navigate to the location you want, select the folders you want,
and then click OK. Or, navigate to the location you want and click Make New Folder. Type a name to replace the
New Folder name.
• (Mac OS) In the Choose Or Create New Folder dialog box, navigate to the location you want, select the folder
you want, and then click Choose. Or, navigate to the location you want and click New Folder. Type a name for
the folder and then click Create. Then click Choose.
3 If necessary, specify options in the Import Photos dialog box, and click Import.
If you have multiple copies of a folder and you want to change the location that Lightroom points to, right-click
(Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the folder and choose Update Folder Location.
Add a subfolder
1 In the Folders panel of the Library module, select the folder in which you want to create the new folder. Then, click
the Plus icon (+) at the top of the Folders panel and choose Add Subfolder.
2 In the Create Folder dialog box, type the Folder name.
3 If photos are selected, determine whether you want to copy the selected photos to the new folder, and then click
Create.
In the Folders panel, the new folder appears in the hierarchy you specified. The new folder also appears in Windows
Explorer or Mac OS Finder.
You can tell if a folder contains subfolders by looking at the disclosure triangle to the left of the folder icon. If the triangle
is solid, the folder contains subfolders. If the triangle is faint and dotted, the folder doesn’t contain subfolders.
Add a parent folder
❖ To add a new parent folder to the Folders panel hierarchy, select a top-level folder, right-click (Windows) or Control-
click (Mac OS), and choose Add Parent Folder.
Move folders
You can move folders into other folders in Lightroom. You cannot copy folders in Lightroom.
• In the Folders panel of the Library module, select one or more folders and drag into another folder.
Rename folders
1 In the Folders panel of the Library module, select a folder.
2 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) and choose Rename from the menu.
3 Overwrite the folder name.