Where my photos are saved?

When I look at my lightroom catalog, I have a ton of photos (photos of 27 k), but I don't know where exactly they are registered.   Many of them aren't in the folders that I see in lightroom.  The only way I can see is by selecting "all photos" at the top of the menu catalogue lightroom.  How can I identify the folder where an image is saved in?  I really need to get a grip on my lightroom organization...

The pictures are on your hard drive, somewhere, anywhere where you put or anywhere where you education Lightroom to put them. You can know exactly which folder the photos are stored in by right-clicking on the picture and selecting 'Show in Finder' or 'Show in Explorer' (both open the window of your operating system indicating where the photo is stored) or "Go to folder in the library" (which tells you the folder where the photo is more left in the Lightroom folder Panel).

If you need to get a grip on the Organization, then please consider seriously organize by keywords and other metadata that describe the content of the photo, instead of trying to remember which folder your 27 000 photos are stored in. Assign keywords and other metadata for each photo to describe the content (for example, 'Beach', 'cascade', 'Thanksgiving', "Cousin Bob", etc.). It is much easier to remember the content of a photograph that to know which folder it is in. Once you have the keywords and other metadata assigned, it is very easy in Lightroom to find all the photos of the waterfall, or pictures of Cousin Bob, or pictures of Cousin Bob taken at Thanksgiving, etc.. (It is much more difficult, if not impossible to do if you organize folders).

Yes, add keywords and other metadata is real work, it takes time and effort and thought, but I'm sure you've heard the old adage: "the benefit is proportional to the effort you put in. I will never return to the Organization of record, it is not simply do the job for me. I always put pictures into folders by date of capture, but I don't have to remember the photos are in the folder (I couldn't possibly remember the location of the folder of 27 photos of k, even if I tried) and I don't use folders to find my photos, I use keywords and other metadata.

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