How to automatically import the modified photos in a nested folder changing?

I have a master catalog for all my tens of thousands of photos. This catalog includes hundreds of organized digitally records. Each of them contains the RAW images from a memory card.

I create a new, numbered folder for each download of pictures cards RAW memory of my cameras and then I use Lightroom to transfer the photos from my card reader. In this way, all new folders and their RAW photos appear in the Lightroom Catalog.

Later, I edit some of these photos and place JPEG files edited in a subfolder under the folder source of the RAW image.

The problem is that the nested subfolders and their modified photos not as displayed in the Lightroom library. To do this, I need to import their subfolder and then these photos into Lightroom. Sometimes, I forget. When this happens, the subfolder does not in the library. This is something serious because I have hundreds of these subfolders. If they do not automatically appear in the Lightroom library, I don't know what they and their altered photos exist.

Is there a way to get the CC of Lightroom to automatically import these nested subfolders and photos modified breast? Do not forget that I have create a new source for each RAW/Lightroom Import download folder, and then a file edited JPEG folder nested under each of these RAW images, imported files.

Thank you.

Jan

Post edited by: Jan Wagner

First of all, allow me to answer your question, and then I would try to convince you not to do at all... I encourage you to read through my reasoning to avoid this type of workflow unless you really need a reason any.

To import images:

-You can import files in several ways - one is by dragging the files themselves to Lightroom icon in the task bar, which opens the import with the selected folders screen. Then, change the import type 'Add', what matters at the current location.

-You can also click on "Import" and navigate through folders.

-You could also (when you export JPGs) choose the option to import images into Lightroom.

Why do it at all? When you edit your images in Lightroom, you already have the edited photo. Why would you want to export a jpg (probably an inferior copy) with all of the editing done in? Better to export the images jpg when you need to send somewhere (at a printing service, at a web site, in an e-mail message) and rely on the original image edited in Lightroom.

In Lightroom, you can even use virtual copies to create multiple versions of your original image (with different treatments, sizes of harvest, etc.) all based on the unique original image. There is really no need to export copies and bring them back in Lightroom (with the exception of very few cases where the copy is required as part of a specific workflow). You can export a jpg from Lightroom anytime that you need based on the original.

If you import jpg images, you will have two of everything, besides wasting disk space, it clutters things and makes finding and the heavier edition future.

Mike

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