How to set up Lightroom to monitor folders, automatically import

Hello

I'm just getting started with Lightroom, so please forgive the newbie question.

All my photos are on an external hard drive, in the J:/Pictures folder.

What should I do in Lightroom to make new pictures added in this folder are added automatically ("any") to the Lightroom/database library? that is Lightroom 'monitors' records in the background for all the new images?

Thank you very much.

Stefan

Hi and thanks again for the really useful answers and ideas! I would like to just get back to that, after thinking the question a bit more. My question re. "track records" may have been somewhat misleading to begin with. Yes, I asked on the "follow-up of files for changes", but what I really should have asked is how Lightroom would "know" changes in the photo files themselves, where these changes are made 'outside' Lightroom. For me, it is a sine qua non. I am very happy to adjust my workflow to ensure that this requirement can be satisfied.

If you mean you want to use another program to edit photos and CRUSH the original, don't do that. Do you no end of trouble in Lightroom. Use instead the Lightroom Edit in... such as mentioned above command that will create a copy to change that Lightroom won't.

The starting point then of data management is that the data, itself, should be the 'truth' and no external knowledge is required, for example in the form of an application (like Lightroom) who keeps a separate record "data about data" (metadata), for example the location, date taken, tags, etc. people.

OK, stop there. If this is what you want, you must NOT use Lightroom. In fact, according to all of your questions, it seems of course as Lightroom is the wrong tool for you. I suggest you need to change your entire thinking and requirements process, or NOT use Lightroom.

I'm not going to address other questions, as there seems to be no need for me to do. You're headed on a path very problematic and unsatisfactory, you will not like Lightroom, you won't benefit from it, it does not meet your needs. Period.

You have other software "organize" which seems to exactly meet your stated needs. I recommend you use your operating system to organize your pictures.

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